Eyes Wide Open Arts: washi tape

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Getting a Little Buggy at CASology

Hi there! It's time to pull out your creepy, crawly critter stamps and

join CASology this week for our new cue card!

This cute and funny little bug stamp from Whipper Snapper Designs was just the ticket for my card this week. I did a little watercoloring using Inktense pencils and added a simple, typed and computer-printed sentiment.

I don't know if you spotted anything a little off about my card, but I didn't see it until I had already taken the photo LOL. To make the washi border, I rolled out 2 strips of the tape and layered them...somehow, it matches up on the left, but not the right....hmmm. Roll with the punches, right :)

Time to check out the DT inspirations for this week's buggy challenge.

Please say hi to our guest designer too!

Deidre Payne (that’s me)

Guest Designer: Anna

I'm also linking up at Sunday Stamps SSC154

Thanks for stopping by this today!

Deidre

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Washi what we did at CASology!

One of my most fabulous friends: "Wiki tape?? Wacky tape?? Widget tape??"

Me: "No; washi tape (LOL)!"

Regardless of what you call it, CASology is gonna challenge you to use it...and give you some inspiration to crash your stash and finally use it to do more than hold dies in place or tape down your watercolor paper---guilty as charged :)

I'm an addict for anything floral and this Mondo Magnolia die from Essentials by Ellen Hutson is totally gorgeous!

This card was super easy to make too.

Pick out 3 different washi tape patterns and use to cover 3 pieces of cardstock that you're going to die cut (1 for each layer of the flower).
Run each layer through your die cutting machine.
Adhere the largest layer directly to the card base.
Add 2 layers of foam tape to the middle layer.
Add 4 layers of foam tape to the center.

Dimension, dimension, dimension, but still CAS!! The sentiment is from the matching stamp set. I loved this mix of patterns!

Crafty tip:
Intentionally offset each row of tape as you add it to the paper so the design on each layer doesn't appear so matchy-matchy (best demonstrated here with the yellow and white chevron washi).