Wild Spider Sticky Roll

Hi Crafters

What you may be asking, is this blog all about.
Wild Spider Sticky Roll is a permanent & Acid Free Double sided Adhesive.

I saw this on Creat and Craft and could immediately see it's use. With all the lace and flourish dies out there (and we all love to use them) this could potentially be a 'must have' . At £14.99 a roll I had to hope it was a good as promised on tv, but with their money back guarantee it is easy to try new things out, so I sent for a roll.

I decided to try it with a fancy greeting die as it has a lot of scrolls in the letters, that would normally take a lot of patient glue work. 
This roll comes like this 

First you take the card you are going to cut out and stick it to the roll, back of the card goes down on the sticky roll . Be careful to line up first as there are no second chances, the sticky is very effective. 

As you can see I did not get it lined up well.

Next run the piece of card through your cutting machine

The tape does not seem to affect the cutting and the waxy side of the sticky tape acts as a relief in the die making the die cut easy to remove.  Some of the pieces punched out act a little tacky and need removing, so tapping the die on the bin will not remove them, but this is far outweighed by the time saved with the gluework. Also removing the bits sometimes loosens the back of the double sided tape, but not enough to cause a problem.

You can see the sticky tape a little underneath

The Die cut is then ready to stick down 

Here it is stuck to the card with the stickyback in front. 

Is it worth the money. Definately. With 10 metres on a roll it should last a lovely long time and it saves a lot of time a lot of frustrating gluetime.  I am very pleased with it.

The only tip I can offer is not to prestore these die cuts as the backing comes away a little when removing the bits and this will get them in a mess if stored, but you can prepare in advance by putting the sticky back to the card if you are going to a workshop or craft group, and then take the prepared card with the die. Or if you must cut them in advance I would suggest storing them between greeseproof paper.

I can only assume this is one of the best kept secrets in crafting as this is the first time I have seen this roll anywhere, it is not availale on EBay or other on-line stores as far as I can see which surprises me. With Create and Craft as sole distributor you need to grab it when you can. 

Happy Crafting
Dee