Dear Cel Lover,

Yes, cels stick to almost ANYTHING 8(!  If you
plan on storing cels with cardboard backings, put
the cardboard backing OUTSIDE the cel bag away
from the cel.  The same goes for backgrounds.  Put
the background OUTSIDE the cel bag away from the
cel OR put a cel bag layer (a scrap of it) to
cover the parts of the cel that will stick to
the background (making a nice cel, cel bag, and
background sandwich) and put the entire thing into
a cel bag.  OR you can also put the cel and
background into separate cel bags and tape the cel
onto to the background from the OUTSIDE of the
cel bags (i.e., use sticky tape ONLY on the cel
bags themselves!).

I'm in the middle of doing this to all my cels
myself, and boy, does it take awhile especially
when there's sticky tape residue on the cels
themselves, staples, etc. to worry about =P!

There is one clever trick I have discovered with
doing this with cels and backgrounds =) which I
learned from a master at this ;) (You know who you
are!).  If you have those resealable cel bags
that can fit those oversized cels and standard
size cels, you can put the standard size cels in
horizontally instead of vertically (I hope that
makes sense!).  Then, you will have an adhesive
edge all along the top of the cel!  You can then
use this adhesive edge to tape your cel (which is
in the bag by itself) onto the background's cel
bag (i.e. the background is already in a cel bag
waiting for the cel to be "taped" on).  This is
hard to describe without a picture which I wish I
had =/!  That way, you can "flip" the cel off the
background!  If you have a non-standard sized cel,
just put the cel in the bag so that it fits, and
there is usually a little leftover flap along the
top edge where you can fold over (the cel bag
that is) and tape that onto your background's cel
bag too!

You can also do the same technique with cels with
separate layers that are unstuck!  I have made
several "flip" book cels of this, and you can see
each layer individually!  Unfortunately, it does
make that one cel setup into a thick cel sandwich
-_- of cels and cel bags, but it's pretty neat
O_O!

If anyone out there has some example pictures of
this, it probably would be helpful =} if anyone
has any idea what I'm talking about =/!

Oh, and of course, if your cels and cel layers and
background are already stuck together, just leave
them be =}.

I hope this helps!  I wish I could illustrate this
better though =/.


Sincerely,

Sonia