Beacon Zip 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 glue is by far my favorite crafting glue EVER! It’s a clear glue so it doesn't leave any colorful residue. It dries fairly quickly and if for some reason you added a little too much product, you can easily remove and it won’t damage your paper. It flows like BUTTER. I know it seems a bit pricey but honestly, I’ve tried many types of glue in the market and this one by far is worth every penny. I’ve even used it to attach acetate to my cake toppers and I have Absolutelyabsolutely no issues.

Love this glue! Anything from Beacon is worth buying. It dries quickly and doesn’t leave any wrinkles. No other paper glue compares. I’ve been using it for quite some time, as I’m a diehard paper crafter, and I’ll continue to buy it.

I don't know how this glue got such good reviews. It behaves somewhat like hot glue-you have to use it fast and it comes out globular and it is hard to get it to stick to the paper if you are using an applicator such as a toothpick because after the first use, trying to get the glue out of the applicator tip is not happening even after piercing the tip with a pin. If you get it where it is not supposed to go, you can't wipe it off without leaving a glue stain behind. But all this isn't even the worst. IT STINKS. The shipping box smelled so much when I brought it in the house, I had to toss it back outside. Even before opening the packages, the smell permeated my whole house. I triple ziplock bagged it and put it in the other room and I am still smelling that awful chemical smell 3 weeks later. I think I am just going to toss it out.

Works well

product met all expectations. It ss my favorite papercraft, scrapbook 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.

I use this glue for assembling miniature houses and book nooks. It dries quicky and holds strong.

Arrived on time and does the job