attach ribbon on a cake board with hot glue ? I'm not sure about the non-edible issue of hot glue. Although, it won't be touching the cake.
Thanks to all of you experienced decorators.

HI there, I use double sided sticky tape to attach the ribbons to the cake board. Never used hot glue.

Thanks, bashini

I use Tacky glue. Sometimes hot glue goes on kind of thick and lumpy...maybe that's because I'm not good at using it, but I think it might look messy under ribbon.

Pritt stick for me!

I've always pinned mine down. Quick & easy & it's not noticable, unless you sit there and actually try to find them.

What double sided tape are you guys using, cause all the ones that I have found just flat out suck. And double sided tape is not cheap, so thats a reall pi@@er offer for me.

I use hot glue... it's quick to set and you can be ready to go in minutes (since sometimes I forget the ribbon until the last minute). It isn't really that clumpy if you put it on really thin and it shows more under a satin ribbon. Usually I do layers of ribbon though so you can't tell it's under there.

Really? Scotch brand I think....it's a yellow "package", and it is gooood stuff. I make sure the edge of the cake board is completely free of any residual BC or crisco from fondant. That will definitely make it not stick as well.

Bella, I don't line the whole edge with it, I put on strips of about 4 inches, leave a gap of about 2 inches, so on and so forth, to conserve it as much as possible. If the ribbon is pulled taut all the way around, it's not going anywhere, even the places where it's not stuck. Yeah, it's pricy. Sometimes, I see packs of two for sale, and I gobble those up. I hate having to buy one dinky little roll. And I did try to get a cheapy brand once, threw it away. It definitely did not work well for me.

I think I do have Scotch Brand, but I could be wrong. I will try again. Maybe I'm not taking my time.

I know I did try a cheapy brand and it was REAL bad. And definetly will be spacing. Thanks.

I have used hot glue for the ribbon, no problem. I glue it on before I put the cake on the board. Make sure you get all the little "stringies" off and it should be fine.

Hot glue is the only thing I have used. I thought about using the pretty "hat pins" but decided against it (too much chance of a small child pulling one off the cake board). I don't have any problems with lumpy spots - works prefectly for me.

I use those really small silver pins with the flat heads. You don't see them and once in, they are pretty hard to pull back out.

I use glue stick, it is non toxic and don't have to worry about all those pesky hot glue strings

I tried glue sticks, but they didn't work for me, didn't hold the ribbon. (may have been the brand I used?)

Yah, I've never been able to get a glue stick to work for me. Maybe a crappy brand, I dunno.

I use hot glue, I don't recommend the low heat glue sticks though, those are the ones that set really fast and leave you with lumps. I use the high heat and do a few inches at a time and then attach the ribbon and smooth it and all bumps down before the glue sets.

non toxic glue sticks for me.

I use all types of decorative pins most of the time--4 to 6 will usually hold the ribbon on even a very large round board.

I have used glue dots that I found in the scrapbooking aisle. They work great. I buy the "permanent" thin ones. Boy, do they grip--it would take a gorilla to pull the ribbon off! They seem to stick to any type of ribbon, too, and are invisible.

Rae

Blakescakes - I have a funny story about those glue dots......I used them to adhere cupcakes to the boards on a cupcake tower, I got a call from the venue -they said they would never forget me, they could not get the cupcakes off of the board. (I just wanted them to stay put - and had read that those were one way to do it!!) I still have them here, glad to know there is another use for them.

Thanks to all your replys. I was glad to see I can use hot glue, just got home and forgot to get double sided tape.