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WOW #33: Using a Glue Stamp Pad with Glitter
February 24th, 2010 
17 comments 
One of the things that I love about “Work It Out Wednesdays” is that I get to try new things too! Today I pulled out one of my recent purchases–a glue pad. I’ve been hoarding glitter for some time now. And in our very first “WOW” shown here, I taught you how to use glitter with a glue pen. But I’ve been wanting to try adding glitter to a stamped image so a glue stamp pad is a great way to do this!
For today’s project you will need: a glue pad, a stamp, a piece of paper, and some glitter.
Step 1: If your glue pad came with an extra container of glue always add glue to the pad before stamping. Glue pads dry out quickly and need to be re-glued often.
Step 2: Press the stamp onto the glue pad. (Or you can turn the stamp over and tap the glue pad onto the stamp–either way works just fine.)
Step 3: Stamp image onto paper.
Step 4: Place stamped paper onto a FOLDED sheet of scratch paper and pour glitter over the image.
Step 5: Tap off excess glitter (make sure all glitter falls onto scratch paper).
Step 6: Set stamped image aside and lift folded scratch paper. Bending so all glitter falls into fold, tip fold downward into open glitter jar. Allow all glitter to slide back into jar and close. (Scratch paper can be saved for more embossing or glittering later.)
(Note: I set my glitter with my heat embossing gun so all loose glitter would be removed and the remaining glitter would set.)
ALWAYS clean your acrylic stamps with soap and water after using a glue pad. Clean wood stamps carefully with a soapy washcloth and then dry carefully. Glue residue can cause a stamp’s rubber or acrylic to dry out and crack.
Here is my completed project. (I masked the leaf stamp so I could stamp a houndstooth background behind the leaf. If you stamp the houndstooth first, the glitter will adhere to the background and the foreground so be mindful of this when designing your project).
Supplies: Cardstock–Bazzill, Provo Craft; Pattern paper–Stampin’ Up; Stamps–Hero Arts, Technique Tuesday, American Crafts; Stamping Ink–Stampin’ Up, Hampton Arts, Inque Boutique, Versamark; Scallop Sentiment Border punch–Fiskars; Ribbon–Offray; Twine–craft supply; Button–Basic Grey)
Is there a technique you’ve yet to try? Want us to try it for you? Just leave your suggestions in our comments sections below. And if you’re used a glue pad to create a project, we’d love to see that too!!
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I quite like the design of your card. Thanks for tutorial of the glue technique
I have been wanting to try this. Thanks for the tutorial.
Great project!!! And a great reminder to pull out my stamp pad again!
great tutorial! Does the heat gun really keep the glitter from continually shedding? That would be FABULOUS!!!
I just got the same glue pad! I can’t wait to try.
Fabulous tutorial! Thanks for the reminder to pull mine out too!
very cool, i have been wondering about a glue pad for some time now!
Lovely card! I have a lot of glitter, so I will probably give this a try!
I feel so dumb-I would have never thought of this. Great tutorial, thank you.
WOW… not just Work it Out Wednesday, but so cool a project.
Thanks for the tip about heat setting it. I never thought of that. I also like to use the glue pad for flocking.
Great tutorial LOVE the finished project and plan to scraplift it tonight! YOUR FOLLOWERS APPRECIATE YOU for the low tech solution for capturing the unused glitter- like we all shuold have learned in elementary school…it is great to be reminded.
Love the tutorial. I’ve got all my supplies & will surely give this one a try. Thanks!
ohhhhhhhhhh thank you for this cool tip and instructions of use for this sort of product as I just purchased some of this glue to give it a try, now I have a good idea how to use it with out the mess.
I just purchased one of these glue pads and followed the directions that stated after stamping the image it should be heated slightly to make the glue more sticky. I did this and then added the glitter but the glitter came off after after awhile. I tried it again and heat set the image before the glitter and afterward and the glitter remained! What do you think about heating the stamped image to make the glue more sticky?
I also wish I had purchased the stamp pad with the glue bottle because I think my new pad is going to dry out very quickly. Thanks for showing the tip with the glue bottle and the scrap piece of paper to capture the leftover glitter!!
It is always great to learn a new technique.