Congrats - Made with Love and a Little Washi Tape

 I hear all the time that people don't know what to do with washi tape. I sympathize because I thought the same thing before I saw all the fantastic work from the Eyelet Outlet Design Team. Over time, I've really fallen in love with washi tape and from time to time, I like to make card that's almost nothing but washi. That brings me to today's card.

On this congratulatory card, I've used many different washi tapes! I enjoy mixing the different patterns while adding a little whimsy to it. Even the wood border is a wide washi tape that I put on a piece of cardstock before cutting it with a border maker. And of course, a little bling is absolutely necessary for any card from Eyelet Outlet! Here I used clear jewel strip bling to further accent the border and break up the vertical and horizontal lines of the washi tapes. See below for a list of all of them I used plus a couple Cocktail Brads for good measure! Take a look at your stash and make something similar or place an order to get tapes you think would go well together. I guarantee you'll enjoy it and maybe even surprise yourself!

Shopping List:

Wood Washi Tape-Wide

Flamingo Washi Tape-Wide

Flower & Feather Washi Tape

Cloud Washi Tape

Pineapple Washi Tape

Skinny Holiday Washi Tape

Glitter Thin Washi Tape

Cocktail Brads

Jewel Strips

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Happy Creating Everyone!

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A Pineapple A Day Keeps Your Worries Away!

 Hello and welcome to summer! I can hardly believe it's July already but it's here so we need to take advantage of every great day we have until the leaves start falling.

Today's card features some gorgeous washi tape I've had an eye on for a while. It's the Pineapple Washi Tape. The pineapple images are so awesome. Some realistic ones are in it but many more look like gems and are in all kinds of colors. I think it's super fun. I added Skinny Yellow Washi Tape and a piece of Glitter Chevron Washi Tape to finish the background. It's so cheery!

I happened to run into the pineapple ephemera piece and thought it would be perfect with the washi tape. I couldn't resist adding a pair of sunglasses and additional embellishments. I used the Colored Daisy Brads and Vacation Enamel Dots to decorate it up.

Shopping List:

Sunglass Brads-Colored

Colored Daisy Brads

Pineapple Washi Tape-Wide

Skinny Washi Tape-5 Rolls

Glitter Chevron Washi Tape

Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the store for all your brads, washi tape, bling and paper flowers!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Janet - YouTube - Blog - Facebook - Instagram - Pinterest 

Washi Tape Envelopes

Washi Tape is a fun and easy way to decorate the envelopes for your cards. 

I buy an assortment of envelopes from everywhere from discount stores to the local printing business.  I love fun colors, but you can make them even more fun with some Washi Tape.

For the tan envelope, I just wrapped the Wide Pineapple Washi Tape around the bottom of the envelope.  If you're going to mail these, make sure you wrap in the direction that the auto-feeder will be least likely to catch your edge and don't finish on the edge that goes first into the feeder.

For the navy envelopes, I folded the Copper Dots Foil Washi Tape (it looks so elegant with navy) in half around all of the edges and then trimmed each end.  When you do the flap, you just need to trim rather than fold, so you don't cover up the adhesive.  

One trick I learned with the more solid washi tapes is to tear the piece of tape and place it adhesive-side-up, so you can center it more easily for folding around the edges.  With the more translucent tapes it's easier to see the envelope edge.

Another trick I use with washi tape, is always to burnish with my Teflon bone folder after adhering to get a really solid adhesion.

For the yellow envelope, I thought it looked awesome wrapped with a few strips of the Wine Washi Tape.

And I love the look of the orange envelope wrapped (folded in half like the navy one) with the Wide Floral Washi Tape.

Go look through your Washi Tape collection and see what fun color & pattern combinations you can make.

Products Used:

• Pineapple Washi Tape - Wide
• Foil Washi Tape - Copper Dots
• Wine Washi Tape
• Coloring Book Washi Tape - Wide Flower

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New Washi Tape Fun

Have you checked-out all of the new Washi Tape in the Eyelet Outlet Store?  The new ones have an asterisk at the beginning of their name, so they are all at the top of the list.

I made cards today featuring two of the new tapes.

We have a *thing* for whales at our house, so the Wide Whale Washi Tape (say that three times fast)  was the first one I added to my collection.

It paired perfectly with this Go With the Flow Whale Stamp from Hero Arts stamped in Purple Ink on light blue cardstock and a few Whale Brads for accents using this week's Sketch Saturday Layout.

Next, I had to have this Wide Pineapple Washi Tape.

I tried stamping my Hero Arts Color Layering Pineapple in the colors of several of the pineapples on the tape (I love how many different pineapples there are before the pattern repeats).  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Hello Gorgeous.

I just love how those three shades of green ink turned out ... and they are perfectly accented by a row of Green Jewel Strip in the larger 5mm size.

Products used:

• Whale Washi Tape
• Whale Brads
• Wide Pineapple Washi Tape
• Jewel Strips - 5mm - Green

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