I know many of you are busy shopping and wrapping presents this time of year and actually that is what inspired the challenge today…getting caught up in a roll of Scotch tape. The little boys love it and I have to hide it to keep it out of their hands. 😉 My roll is getting quite the work-out here with the amount of presents I have to wrap! Which got me thinking about the kinds of tape we use in papercrafting. Why not have a “tape” challenge and find ways to use it. Now I’m NOT talking about just using regular adhesive tape to hold your design together…I’m talking tape that that you can see or at least…use it in a special way. There are all kinds of tapes available on the market if you just stop and think about it. Making Memories makes a fabulous textured tape that I adore. There are also other great patterned tapes out there, red line tape…add some microbeads with it! How about packing tape? Lots of cool uses there! Diasy D’s even makes a fabulous rub-on tape in the form of stitching. If you don’t have anything besides the regular adhesive tape…why not try it on a surface and sprinkle some embossing powder on it. Oh! I just thought of another! Isn’t there a masking tape technique out there? I’ve never tried it but it might be fun! Have fun with this! Be creative!
All are welcome…join us at WT143 to play along! 🙂
Best Friends
For this design, I wanted to use a fresh spring/summer look to go with these fun flower stamps from My Favorite Things. The two strips across the design in gingham and paisley patterns are actually textured tape by Making Memories. I just love how quick and easy they are to work with! It may be difficult to see in the photo but this tape is actually like a woven printed fabric with adhesive on the back. After adhering the tape to my kraft cardstock layer, I trimmed the edges.
For my main card base, I adhered a layer of Certainly Celery cardstock over the Whisper White base and then lightly scored a light where the top of my kraft layer would go. Using Aloe Vera Chalk ink, I stamped the circle from this Build a Bouquet stamp set repeated along the line. The clear block and stamps made it so easy to line up. After adhering my kraft layer over top…it looks like a scalloped circle shadow border. I pulled it together by straight stitching around the perimeter of my design.
for the main image panel…the flowers from the Build a Bloom set was stamped and then stamped again to get a double blossom type flower. I used a little flower in Old Olive ink to fill in a little of the white and stamped the Best Friends sentiment in black. To add a little fun, I clipped on this Cheek Making Memories clip to highlight the sentiment and used three Doodlebug Designs gemstones to glitz up those flower centers.
Hope you have time to play along with the challenge this week. Have fun with that tape!
