BeaconZip Dry Paper Glue 2 oz. [Pack of 2 ]

I'm mostly a card maker now even though I used to do a lot of archival scrapbooking. I buy this paper glue all the time & have for the last 25 years. I used to buy it periodically for scrapbooking since it's acid & lingin free, but I love doing my Christmas & birthday cards with it now. As long as you are buying from Beacon, it's a great product. What I love, love, love about it, is that it doesnt saturate the paper so much that it warps it or buckles so you DO NOT end up with a liquidy mess until it all dries & sometimes still have warps or wrinkles. You can rub it off quickly if you make a mistake too. This stuff works as a paper product goes. I also like the ease of it on my cardstock cards since I do multiple layers all the time. It's so much faster to use it than going through tons of permanent adhesive glue tape rolls. Economically is goes father than tape. It seems like a lot to pay for a little bottle of glue but it's so much simpler, & faster than screwing around with tape guns or rolls of tape & having them break or not go very far or being too wide in some places. I like that I can place a dot in places that I can't seem to do easily with tape runners. Even though it's a little pricey I feel like I get more for my money wiht it, but I do all my cards at once. I dont use half of it & come back to them 6 months down the road. My only wish sometimes is that it came in bigger a bottle so I could get a better price break maybe but then again, this size seems to be almost perfect depending on what you are doing. It will dry up on you & be impossible to use over time if you have some left over & wait to use it down the road, so once you open it up, my suggestion is to use it up. IF you do want to postpone using the leftover, my suggestion is to save the white cap you take off, before you put on the applicator tip on & you might be able to use it about 2 or 3 months down the road but it won't be as easy to apply since it will be slower in the flowing of it. In a way I like the smaller bottles now that I think about it becasue they seem to be just right for doing a set of cards. I'll use 1 -3 bottles depending on how many cards & how many layers I'm doing. Typically, if I do 20 cards with 1 or two front- layers & 1 inside layer, then 1 bottle is enough. If I do 40 cards I will need 2-3 bottles depending on how many other little size pieces I am adding or if I have 2 or 3 front layers. It has a nice control of the flow if you only cut off the tip for making small lines like I do. The adhesion in it works so well that you don't need much. I use it mostly like I do a glue tape runner going around the edges of everything & smearing a few lines in the middle going back & forth in a zig-zag motion. You really dont need much in the middle if you go around the edges. I also use it for small dots here & there or if I'm putting down paper cut pieces with little pointy edges. But mostly I like it becasue it just seems so much faster. I dont have to literally set things aside & let them dry with it either. I can continue on wiht pieces even though they say dry time is 10 minutes & cure time is 24 hours. By the time I get through 19 other pieces on a 20 card set, I can totally use the first piece again. I can stack stuff to put away easily without worrying about pieces shifting or moving after that 10 mins. Many times I will carefully continue working with that same first piece to place it on top of another again & do it 2 or 3 things with it before I set it aside to dry. It does have a little odor but it doesn't bother me & I'm very sensitive when it comes to smells. Inks seem to bother me more. This is my 'go to' glue & has been for soem time now. I almost never use any other now type though it's a bit pricey. I've thought about going back to glue tape runners but they are a real bother & I dont seem to be able to work as fast with them, even though a few brands of them are very good. I know my card layers will hold up in the heat & icy cold in the mail & not pop off when they arrive and are taken out of the envelopes. Even my older cards with glue tape sometimes do that after time. I will say you can count on this being a permanent glue. You can position your paper to exactly what you want within the first 30-45 seconds ( which is long enough) while you can move it around & don't wait too long. You dont have forever :) Same goes to removing it if you make a mistake. I absolutley love that I can count it not warping, wrinkling, or saturating the paper & that it's much faster to work with than glue tapes. Plus I can make my lines be as heavy or thin as I want. (I usually only cut the first tip notch off. ) Crystal Clear, Dries Crystal Clear, Fast Drying, Easily Removable When Wet Without Leaving Any Residue, Acid Free, Lignin Free, Does Not Wrinkle Paper, Archival Quality. It's perfect for me!

This is THE BEST glue for adhering paper to paper. It doesn't bubble or cause bumps like some glues and doesn't bleed through. It sticks quickly and provides a firm hold. It's also acid free, so great for papers you want to preserve. It's expensive, but a few drops go a long way. Highly recommended.

Was unable to use, glue was too hard to use. Waste of money. I had brought several of them some time ago & if kept to long it gets hard. When buying glue, be sure to read description, unable to return

I make greeting cards by adhering my watercolor art to cardstock. After much trial and error, I have found this to be the best glue. It is fairly thick, flows smoothly and adheres very well. The paper does not wrinkle and I have only had bleed-through a few times (out of 100's of cards). A little goes a long way so it is fairly economical - much less expensive than using tape rollers. I do place the freshly glued card under a heavy book for a bit to ensure good adhesion.

The most important feature is that gluing paper to paper does not ripple at all. It almost dries too quickly as by the time I adhere 2 small papers together, the tip on the dispenser has dried. Also you need a healthy line of glue on the paper or it will dry before the papers are put together and I work as fast as I can. It is a very good glue.

I never have liked wet glues-I tend to make quite the mess with them. Zip Dry, however, is a great product. It’s thicker than most and, while it spreads easily it also pretty much stays where I put it. A little pricey but worth it. The only down side to it is this-once you have used 2/3 of the product, no matter what you do or try…you will not be able to use the rest of the bottle. 👎🏻👎🏻 This has something to do with its “recipe” for sure and 99% of the reviews I’ve read on this product this complaint appears. Letters to the makers of Zip Dry resulted in a free bottle or two but it doesn’t make up for how much product I have to throw out each time.

Love this glue for all paper crafts it’s my absolute favorite. Easy to use and dries clear. Only thing is after using glue will continue to come out.

This is my favorite glue for papercraft in the whole wide world. I’ve been addicted to it for card making and scrapbooking for years and years. One of its best qualities is that it is repositionable for about 30 seconds or so when newly applied.That said, I strongly recommend that you NOT buy from this from Amazon. I purchased a set of two bottles, both of which contained glue so dry that the glue was unusable. I hoped it was a fluke, so I purchased another set, which were even drier. The seller IS the manufacturer, which I found particularly disappointing. Worse still, Amazon’s return process forced me to work with the seller on the issue rather than do a straight return. I contacted the seller through Amazon, and the seller never responded. I had to call Amazon’s customer service number in order to finally have my money reimbursed, which is ridiculous.The good news is that I’ve purchased the same glue through Joann, Michael’s, AND Hobby Lobby, I think, both in the store and online, and have never had the same issue buying from any of them.UPDATE: SELLER REPLACED MY BAD GLUE! THANK YOU, BEACON!

Arrived on time and does the job