Help! Xyron Repositionable Tape Problem.. Update---Finished my Very First Page!

[sweet maxine]

I'm trying to finish my very first scrapbook page ever, and I'm using the Xyron repositionable tape I bought at Big Lots last week. I don't know if I'm using it correctly or not, but when I try to tear off a piece it gets gummy and sticks to my fingers and then by the time I get the tape torn off and cut, half of the adhesive is gone. What a mess! I wonder if the tape is just old or if that's just the way it works---I really don't know! I was so excited to finally be putting my pages together, and now I've run into a roadblock. I do have an acid-free glue stick. Should I just use that for now? I'd like to be able to move things around if I need to---that's why I bought the repositionable tape. It took me so long just to get my pics, paper, supplies and everything together.

Anybody have any experience with this type of tape?

 

[ilovedale3]

Well, after seeing everyone's "Big Lots" posts a couple of weeks ago, I went and bought the Xyron tape (both permanent and repositionable) to try out. I am having the same problem with it. It is making a big mess, leaving these sticky "glue boogies" on my hands and all over the little teeth that you tear the tape against (does that make sense?)! While it seemed like a bargain, I don't think I am really overjoyed with it. I guess I'll use it so I am not being wasteful, but will probably go back to Hermafix.

 

[sweet maxine]

LOL, that's what I'm talking about---the little "boogies" it makes!! It gunks up the tearing edge, and then it gets stuck all over my fingers, then it spreads to anything I touch. Yuck!!

Anyway, I forgot I had bought some of those little adhesive squares and dug those out of the pile of my "stuff" (it's really accumulating, and I'm just finishing my first page--I've got to use all of it now---can't go shopping anytime soon.......). So.....I used the little squares to adhere things to the page with and....DA DA! I finished my very first page! Yay!!!

No more fear of the white pages!

 

[ilovedale3]

YAY YOU! Congrats on your first page! I remember my first page like it was only yesterday......

Maybe the "boogies" are just an inherent Xyron problem. I have the Xyron 500 with a repositionable adhesive refill in it and it leaves the boogies everywhere too!