Mono Multi... When you really want it to STICK!

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Reported by Amy Westerman

Adhesive. Where would we all be without adhesive? I can probably take a wild guess that most of us wouldn’t be big card makers or scrappers without it!

Over the years, I’ve used many, many kinds of adhesives. When I first started scrap booking, I used Creative Memories Photo Splits, but those required some work. Trying to pull the split off the strip, then trying to get the backing off the split! Whew. No wonder it took me so long to make a scrapbook page! After the splits, I graduated to the Creative Memories Tape Runner, which was much better than the splits, but good heavens that thing broke and got jammed a lot.

Once I started card making, I happily began using the Mono Adhesive Glue Dispenser, because that’s what everyone used, right? Well, many card makers DO use the Mono Adhesive Glue Dispenser, but I found the tape broke quite often, and for as many cards as I made in a month, I was going through the dispenser way too fast! Not to mention, it didn’t do a really good job of actually holding the layers together on my cards, which was totally not cool. It really became an issue of cost inefficiency and reliability that made me switch adhesives, again.

So, where have I ended up in the world of adhesives? Well, through Splitcoast Stampers, I learned of this “fabulous” glue that everyone was RAVING about in the forums. Glue? On my cards? Yuck. Why would I want to mess up my cards with glue? No way. As time went on, and my investment in the Mono Glue Dispenser tripled, I could ignore the chatter no longer. I decided to try the glue that everyone was going gaga over. How good could this Tombo Mono Multi Liquid Glue really be? I was envisioning glue seeping out from under the edges of the cardstock on my beautiful cards. Did I really want to try this stuff? I sucked it up and I went to the store to buy the glue. I brought it home and gave it a try. And, to be honest, my card making has never been the same! Multi is as great as everyone says it is. It holds the layers of my cards together unlike any other adhesive had been able to. It’s got a dual tip end, one end is broad and the other end is narrow. Most of the time I use the broad end because it’s easier to apply smaller amounts and the end makes it easy to spread the glue out farther and thinner. Do you know what this translates to? Money. More of it to buy fun designer paper or jazzy embellishments. No more would I need a small fortune to buy adhesive! This stuff is so cost efficient it’s amazing! It takes me forever to go through a bottle of Multi, and I make TONS of cards. I think Multi and I are going to be stickin’ together for quite a long time.



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