Mixed up Saturday

 Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

From a wet and cold Gloucestershire 🙄, doesn't the weather realise that March is a busy month for gardeners??? We have a totally free weekend,  a list of garden jobs from cutting back Buddleia bushes x 3 to sowing more seeds, we also took delivery of 30 pallet collars, which we are using to make raised beds for growing vegetables, they need treating with wood preserver before we use them but we need a dry day to treat them!!  Thats just the tip of the iceberg!!  

Speaking of the garden,  Mother nature clearly knew it was March 1st yesterday as I have been going out into the garden every day to check to see if my Daffodils have opened........

On Thursday they were just about to burst open, I was delighted when I went out yesterday morning after a night of wild stormy winds and heavy rain so many of them had opened.  Ours are a good week or so behind others Ive seen around us, not sure whether its because our garden is a lot lower down than most around us.  I am so excited to see the garden starting to wake up 😁

Water Based Glue Review

Part One

I have quite the collection of Water Based Glues, so I thought I would try them out in different ways to compare them.  I think we all have our favourite glue that we reach for daily,  I have tried different ones over the years and find myself returning to the same one. 

I tend to use Aleene's Tacky Glue as my go to, I did recently buy the popular 'Bearly Arts Glue that has a really fine tip for adhering sentiments together and anything that requires a fine line of glue. 

These are the 6 I tested:

Bearly Art Glue

IndigoBlu Grab & Go

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Pink Frog Glue

Cosmic Shimmer 

Art Glitter Glue

These are all Water based glues. 

I first tested how fine a line I could get:

Bearly Art

IndigoBlu Grab & Go

Aleene's Tacky 

Pink Frog

Cosmic Shimmer 

Art Glitter

They were all similar, with the exception of IndigoBlu, it doesn't have a fine tip and it is a much wetter glue. The Pink Frog seems wetter too.

I will say that the Art Glitter glue is a nightmare for keeping the nozzle flowing freely. 

Next I wanted to adhere two pieces of card together to see if the card buckles or you could see where the glue was under the card. It was hard to capture the difference:

I can see where I put the glue under the white layer with the Bearly Art glue, so this wouldn't work for Clean & Simple type cards in my opinion.  

IndigoBlu 

Now you can see clearly that the card buckled slightly with the IndigoBlu glue, I could see it on the black card at the back too.  

Aleene's Tacky 

Aleene's was much better but I could see a slight line in a couple of places.  

Pink Frog did really well, which surprised me as it was a wetter glue. I can't really see any lines.

Cosmic Shimmer,  Now I stopped using CS glue asxI found that it seemed to have a higher water content at some point, but as you can see here you can't see it between two pieces of card. 

Art Glitter Glue,  a wetter consistency glue, you can see where I put it on the white card.  

I did my best to use the same amount of glue on each example for fairness. 

The last category of Part 1 of the Glue review is the 'Dries Clear' quality 

They all faired quite well with the 'Dries Clear' test, however the IndigoBlu and the Aleene's had a white tinge to it, I ran my fingers over to check that they were all totally dry, which the were. 

Results are mixed, I think that we will all still use our favourite glues, I may use different glues for different things more.  

I will try these glues in a few more ways and continue with a part 2 

Let me know if there is any other ways you would like me to test them. 

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I hope that you all have a Super Saturday, 

I hope you all stay warm & dry,

Love & hugs to you all,

Sandra

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