It is very important to choose adhesives that are acid-free. Acid free adhesives will not harm your scrabook photos.
You will also want to choose an adhesive that will hold you scrapbook photos and embellishments in place so that they will not fall off of your scrapbooking pages thirty five years from now.
There is a large variety of adhesives such as: glue sticks, photo corners and photo stickers (double-sided sticky squares). You will want to use the safest adhesive when scrapbooking that works best for you.
The best adhesive to use for all of your embellishments is hot glue. You can find a wide variety of hot glue guns and glue sticks at most retail stores and online.
You can use hot glue to make seals for your scrapping cards, journals and scrapbooking pages. These hot glue seals can be made by stirring a gold color of Pearl-X into a melted clear glue stick and then stamping the rubber stamp covered with gold pigment ink into it.
You can also use hot glue to create faux wax seals for your scrapbook pages. This is done by squeezing a small amount of hot glue into the shape of a circle onto a non-stick surface.
The size of the circle should be about the same size as the size of the stamp that you plan to use to decorate the seal. Once the circle of hot glue is cooled, use your heat embossing tool to soften the top.
Once that has been softened, ink your stamp into your pigment inkpad, and press into the glue. Be careful not to press too far or you could end up with rubber marks where the stamp was cut or the impression going all the way through.
The pigment ink keeps the rubber from sticking to the glue, and is also a great way to get the impression to pop. Hot glue sticks now come in colors too. These colored glue sticks are very popular in scrapbooking because they are a very versatile way to create raised letter embellishments.
This gives the scrapper a new way to add dimension to their pages without having to emboss everything. It also allows them to add raised color without having to use pigments and inks.
