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So I bought a bag of fun gears and now I am wondering if I can even use them on greeting cards. How would you adhere them? Hot glue or a stronger regular glue? Looking for advice from someone who may have used these as Embellishments. Thank you.
Tried to add a picture but it just would not load. The metal gears are 1/2 inch to 1 inch in diameter.
An adhesive like Glossy Accents should do the trick. I’m sure hot glue would work too but you might have a harder job getting little enough of it on there not to blob out unattractively round the gears. I’m guessing they’re quite flat so they shouldn’t be too heavy. I think you need to have made 10 posts before you can attach a picture - if you make a few gallery comments those count so you could easily get to 10 and then try again with the picture if you want to!
E6000 (stinky tube version) holds most everything. But don't bother with the spray adhesive odor-free version of this product. It didn't hold some light weight embellishments I tried with it. Very disappointing as I hate the smell of E6000.
Crafter's Pick - The Ultimate is perfect gluing metal (& other materials) to cards. It is non-toxic and dries matte. It's widely available, I usually get it at Scrapbook.com: https://www.scrapbook.com/store/h-c6...cid=51k5_vwyzb
Depending on the thickness of the gears, I often use my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (the mini stapler) to attach things like this. Though I also have dies that are gears/sprocket shapes and these are thin enough for the stapler to hold. I just colour them with inks and use a metallic wax over the top to replicate a metal look. I also colour my staples before putting them in the stapler so they will either match or contrast with the card. You can use either a permanent marker or Copic or similar markers to colour the staples.
I do steampuck cards with metal gears. The best is a hot glue gun and occasionally, the very small gears will stay in tack with a special tacky glue like Beacon 3n1 Advanced glue. Make sure your hot glue is very liquid and hot and don't let the hot glue dry for a second before putting it on the cardstock. If it does, you can easily take off the hot glue with your fingers or a hot embossing gun for embossing if you need to do it again.
Thanks I just tested one of the gears on cardstock using Aleene's clear gel tacky glue. It stuck pretty well but I was able to pull it off after it dried about an hour. Perhaps it would stay on the card long enough to enjoy.;)
Metal Steampunk Gears
