A while back I bought a roll of painter's tape at Target. I thought it would be fun to stamp on it and make a hybrid washi tape of sorts. So, as per usual, I tossed it in my cart next to the laundry detergent, hair dye and bag of chips ready to race home and make washi tape all night long in order to share it on my blog and anyone else who would listen to me. Of course, the tape has been sitting on my desk for the last couple months just begging to be stamped and turned into fun, hip and trendy washi tape instead of the lowly utilitarian masking tape for which it was intended. So, despite people in this house that wanted to use it for things other than decorative washi tape, I managed to rescue it from its humble beginnings when I was working on the journal for Lisa's Antiquated stamp set. It was so much fun and sooooo easy I thought I would do a quick tutorial for you.
I checked around the web to see what other versions are out there. Although, there are a bunch of tutorials that use score pal tape and tissue paper, I found it a little to cumbersome for me. It's not to say I won't try it one day. But for now I need easy. I found another tutorial byScrappergirl that uses masking tape and Maya Mist. I love how it turned out. So anyhow, here are my very basic instructions.......
All you need is this.........
Found it in the paint section of Target. It's painter's tape, not masking tape........
I put strips of it on some parchment paper.......
and then stamped away......
when I was done, I rolled it up for quick and easy storage.........
Then I got to thinking. What if I painted the tape? So I did.......
I experimented a bit with some different paints.......
But then I had to go make dinner and that ended that. I'll have to get back to you how it turned out. I think I need to work with it a bit. I used the Martha glitter paint and kind of like where it's going.......
That's it for now! I'm substitute teaching for 4th graders tomorrow....Wish me luck! Karin
