Buffalo Games Puzzle Saver, 6 Sheets & 2 Hangers, Puzzle Preservation Kit

Bought this for my 12-year-old daughter for a 500 piece puzzle we built. Like a dream come true, you can have a perfectly preserved puzzle within a couple minutes, no worries that all the hard work you put into the puzzle can be undone. Her's was a 3D Visual Echo puzzle with hot air balloons, I hated to have her put glue anywhere around the textured surface because even it a little got on it the beautiful effect would be spoiled. She was able to simply peel and stick 3 pieces of this (half the package) to the back of her puzzle and now can frame it to hang on her wall. Still stunned at how quick and easy it was and ZERO mess, As a mom the no mess was my favorite part!!! Definitely worth buying should work for any puzzle. If it didn't fit your puzzle it would be easy to cut some off or add more. I plan to buy more for the 1000 piece puzzle my 15-year-old is building. I don't want any glue on her surfaces since she needs her colored pencils to work on them. Believe me, this kit beats glue any day!! VERY pleased and plan to order another right after I complete this review. If this review is helpful in any way, please give it a thumbs up below. I do these reviews to try to aid you in your purchases because I sure appreciate the reviews left by others. Thank you for your support. Edited to Add that I did re-order and now have "stickered" another puzzle, see 2nd photo of it, it is the color it yourself puzzle with the peacock.

I had never wanted to frame a puzzle box until my daughter got me this one that was a puzzle of my dog. She had it specially made for me so I figured it would be a neat thing to frame and hang in the house. At first I thought I was going to have to use some kind of glue. But then when I saw this sticky paper I thought it would be perfect. In fact it turned out to be extremely perfect and just what I was looking for. The paper comes and sheets that can be cut to size or they can be overlapped for a larger puzzle. The pieces are easy enough to work with in the size that they come in, but there's also lines on the back for cutting to smaller sizes. My puzzle was 11 x 14", so I lucked out in that it would fit in a standard frame. I ended up using two pieces of the sticky stuff on the back so I have extra to use for future projects. One thing that I was curious about when I was deciding whether to buy this or not was how thick the paper was. The paper is about the thickness of a greeting card. So it has some stiffness to it and it's not just like a sheet of contact paper. I was really hoping that it would be like this so that it wouldn't be so flimsy in the frame. It was really perfect and that it added a little bit of stability to the puzzle without adding a lot of thickness. The instructions suggested that you cut the paper to size before sticking it on but I figured it would be easier to just trim a little excess off the edges rather than trying to stick something exactly to the edge. That worked out fine for me. I overlapped probably about a quarter of an inch on each side and when I turned it over it was real easy to trim the excess off with a scissors without damaging the puzzle. One other thing that I was concerned about was how to flip the puzzle over. There were some suggestions for that which I used and I ended up taking a stiff piece of smooth cardboard and sliding it off the table and right onto that cardboard. Then I took another piece of cardboard and put it on top. Then it was easy to flip the whole thing over. It might be harder if you had a larger puzzle, but it worked fine with the size I had. I thought this was a great product at a great price and it also came with some little hooks that you could stick on the back if you wanted to just hang up your puzzle without any frame. That's kind of nice although I have to say I wouldn't recommend it because I think the puzzle needs a little more stability then just the sticky backing. If you were really going to mount it directly with no frame, I would suggest having a dry mounted onto foam core board. Highly recommend, great value, will use again. Thanks for reading my review Becky Brooks

I made my first puzzle this year. It was a 300 piece, Birds of Paradise puzzle. Luckily, I found this because it worked perfectly The instructions were large print and super easy to follow. The dimensions fit exactly the ones I ordered and it worked really well. It took less than an hour altogether with the puzzle saver and framing. Its plastic like material so its light weight and clear which tapes onto the back of the puzzle. It worked great I may have had to overlap some of the sheets to make it fit. It was fine though. I did not use all the sheets either for the puzzle size I had. Cons: The hardest part is getting the puzzle to flip so you can apply the peel. Its best to keep that in mind when doing your puzzle if you want to save it. Do the puzzle on a piece of cardboard then sandwich the puzzle with another piece of cardboard to solve this problem.

Like many others have said, the hardest part of using this is flipping the puzzle over. Plan ahead and assemble your puzzle on a piece of cardboard, then put a second piece of cardboard over the top and flip it. (The instructions on this package basically tell you to do that, but I had started the puzzle before this arrived.) This was definitely easy to use, with no mess and no fuss. It was easy to cut out the sizes I needed. Another reviewer recommended that you do not overlap the Peel & Stick pieces, so I just lined them up right next to each other, and it worked out fine. I used a rolling pin to secure the adhesive, and then let it sit overnight to "harden." I'm giving this four stars instead of five because unlike the description claims, this is definitely not permanent. Leaving it out overnight seemed to do nothing at all; the puzzle pieces were exactly as stuck as they were the night before. What you end up with is a a puzzle that is held together well enough, but is floppy, not rigid. A corner piece fell off while I was moving it. It was easily stuck back on, and I got the puzzle on the wall just fine; it just wasn't what I was expecting to work with. In fact, some people might like that the adhesive isn't permanent, because if you accidentally put the backing on crooked, you can peel it off and start again. Overall, if you are proactive about building your puzzle on something that makes it easy to flip, then this really is a hassle-free way to preserve it.

Secured my puzzle into place. Just reminder to go slow

I strongly recommend these peel and stick for jigsaw puzzles. They make preserving a puzzle very easy without any mess and well worth the price. Where I needed to cut the strips to fit, I staggered the folds so there wouldn't be one long fold across the whole puzzle. After waiting overnight, which is longer than necessary, I was able to easily pick up the entire puzzle and transferred it to a frame. The kit came with two peel and stick hangers but I prefer to frame them to protect the photo.

Simple. No mess. Easy to use. Preserves puzzles for possible other decor uses

I’m VERY impressed! I found a quick video through google because I just couldn’t believe it was as easy as it sounded. It was! We used the sandwich method to get the puzzle flipped over. This is a 1000 piece puzzle and I was still left with one extra sheet. Done in maybe 3 minutes! Just order it!

Highly recommended if you are a puzzle lover

Easy to use will be purchasing more

What a great idea. Previously, I was using glue and bristol board. It is much easier with this product, and the end result is much better - puzzle sticks so easily and can easily be handled for framing. Highly recommended.

Utilicé el producto para un rompecabezas de 500 piezas. Fue muy buena opción utilizarlo en lugar del pegamento líquido porque es mucho más fácil y práctico. Además de que le da resistencia. Me gustó que el paquete incluye un par de ganchos de plástico por si decides colgarlo sin mandar a ponerle un marco de cuadro. Sin duda lo volveré a comprar.

was not adhesive as it should be