Follow this recipe to make lickable seal gum glue for stickers and envelopes. With this adhesive you will be able to make your own stickers from ordinary paper. Use the seal gum on clip-art, pictures cut from wrapping paper, images made from rubber stamps, or on drawings of your own design.
This lick and stick adhesive also works great on handmade envelopes. Just spread the seal gum on the envelope flap and let it dry. When you are ready to use the envelope, just lick it and stick it!
Related crafts: Check out the Sticker Fun craft project to see how to design and make your own custom stickers. For envelope patterns and instructions for making an envelope in any size, see the Envelopes to Make craft project.
Caution: Recipe uses boiling water. Adult supervision is required!
To use it: Brush gum thinly on the back of the sticker. The stickers will curl as they dry. This is okay. When dry, store your stickers in a plastic bag or a small box. To use, moisten the sticker's back and apply it to paper.
Tip: The gum will gel overnight. Return it to a liquid state by placing the container of seal gum in a pan of hot water. Store the seal gum in a small jar in the refrigerator.
That's it! Now make some
stickers!