Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! Since we returned from CHA I've been talking up our latest product, Fabric Sheets! They drew a lot of interest in Chicago at the trade show and fans have been emailing us asking questions about these fantastic new products.
So here's some info for our fans:

1. They are 8 1/2 X 11 in size
2. They are self adhesive so you do not have to run them thru a Xyron machine to make them sticky...Yay!
3. We have 38 different styles available
4. They will be available at Love My Tapes.com soon and are $6.00 per sheet plus shipping.
   
5. You can sew them with your sewing machine.
6. They are washable but I have not dried them in a dryer only laid flat to dry.
7. You can use most die cutting machine with them. I have cut them in my Sizzix, Cricut and Slice.
   

For this weeks Tuesday Tape Tip I used the Slice to create this card project with Paper from GCD Studios and Stamps from Unity Stamp Co.



I was able to cut the Fabric Sheets on my Slice with the back on and I tried peeling the backing off the Fabric Sheets and placing the fabric directly on the cutting surface. Both ways worked but without the backing on the Fabric Sheets you do have to use the Slice spatula to lift your die cuts off the glass.
Either way I got a clean cut very easily and the result is beautiful.




For more tips check out You Tube for Slice videos on cutting fabric. Because our Fabric sheets are self adhesive you don't have to bother with fusible webbing. Isn't that cool!

If you give our Fabric Sheets a try be sure and submit your projects for our Feature Friday post! Our email is lovemytapes@gmail.com

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello Tape Fans! Today we have a special treat for our tape fans. I have done my first video tutorial on how to make a vintage fabric tape flower.

Supplies: Love My Tapes Fabric Tape: Sherbert, October Afternoon patterned paper, Imaginisce i-Top Tool, Kaisercraft Pearls and Stickles.

Now I must disclose this is my first ever video tutorial but I think you'll be able to easily re-create these flowers. I had to cut the end of the video short but you only missed me showing the flower which the pic is here and saying "thanks for joining me for today's Tuesday tape tip" because it needs to be 10 minutes or less so I promise my next video will be in the right amount of time.
So check out the video and be sure and leave a comment on what you thought since I'll be giving away this roll of fabric tape to one lucky winner today!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! This week's tape tip is a fun way to jazz up regular clothespins with our fabric tapes. It's super easy to just peel the fabric tapes and stick them right onto the clothespins to create a fun little gift for a friend or just use them around your own home. Add a magnet to the back with a glue gun and you have a trendy way to keep notes, photos or lists on your families refrigerator.
The clothespins are a little narrower that the width of the tape so be sure and trim the fabric tape before you peel that backing off!

Here's a couple examples I made in about 10 mins



Here's a closer view



We have 7 different styles of our gingham fabric tapes in the store. Click here to place your order.

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! This week for our tape tip we're featuring the i-top brad maker from Imaginisce. Some of you may not have heard of the i-top tool from Imagininsce.


This tool is fun and easy to use. With it you can create your own brads, buttons and pins in a matter of minutes!
This tool is so versatile, you can create brads for any project and it works really well with our fabric tapes! Because the fabric tapes have an adhesive back you can easily cover the brads and then use the i-top Tool to attach the back of the brad in a matter of seconds.

Use our fabric tape

To create these fun brads

These i-top brads were made with our Peppermint fabric tape

Add some flowers and you have this...

There are lots of ways to top your i-top brads but my favorite is with our fabric tapes! We'll be showing you some creations with our handmade brads later this week!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! Today's Tuesday Tape tip is all about decor. In my studio I like to collect little jars to keep buttons and smaller embellishments in. I picked up some really inexpensive small jars at Michaels {they were a buck to be exact} and I keep my Making Memories buttons in them. I thought the fabric tapes would be a fun way to jazz them up a bit so I wrapped some of our Jane and Penny around each one. I then added two Prima flowers layered and finished them off with one of the buttons in each jar.



Now I can just quickly look at the jar and know they hold that color buttons on the center of the flowers. Super easy!

I used the following two styles of our fabric tape for my project.

Penny

Jane

You can find these styles and many other of our fabric tapes in the Love My Tapes store!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! We are thrilled at the response we've gotten to our fabric tape and all of your orders. We appreciate your business and look forward to meeting your fabric tape and adhesive needs.
Now onto this week's Tuesday Tape Tip!!
Banners are a big trend in card making and scrapbooking right now so we decided to create one using our new fabric tapes. You can easily create banners like this one featuring paper from Pebbles Inc new Tree house line by cutting out your pattern cardstock in your desired banner shape and then laying them in a straight line on your crafting table. The place half of the width of the fabric tape over the top of the banner and lift the banner off your table and simply fold the other side to the back of your banner and Voila!



For added detail to this banner we used some buttons and Waxy Flax by Close To My Heart. After tying the buttons in between the flags of our banner we simply twisted the Waxy Flax around our paper piercer to create the coiled look.

We'd love to see your banners created with our tapes! Send your crafty project images to lovemytapes@gmail.com and you might see your work here on our Feature Friday post!

We'd also like to Congratulate the Moxie Fab winners posted today at the Moxie Fab Blog! We can't wait to see what you create with your Moxie Fab Love My Tapes Prize!!!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! For today's Tuesday Tape Tip we're going to show you how to use our double sided tape and crepe paper to create a fun technique for your cards. Sometimes you don't have the right supplies for a project and that's why I love the creative process. When in doubt think outside the box. Just about everyone has bought crepe paper for party decor but have you used it for paper crafting? I always find crepe paper in big double rolls at Big Lots for 99 cents and in a variety of colors.
I happen to stock up on white because if I need a certain color I can use Glimmer Mist to easily transform the white to any color I need for my project. For today's project we are sticking with white.
Here's the card I created with our double sided adhesive, Paper Doll collection by Crate Paper and some crepe paper

So to get started I have 3x5 1/2 piece of cardstock that I used an EK Success border punch to add scallops.

Line your border punched side with the adhesive. See how our adhesive goes on in a smooth full strip of glue...love that!

Next add some adhesive to your strip of crepe paper. Mine is 24 inches in length tho I did not use it all but yours will vary by the size of your pleats


Start folding the crepe paper towards you, the folds can be big or small...whatever your preference.

When you flip the paper back over this is what you'll have.

Now you're ready to assemble your card and voila! My finished card size is 4 1/4 X 5 1/2

Here's another example of crepe paper on a card.

We hope you'll try this tip with your Love My Tapes adhesive and be sure and send us a pic if you do for our Feature Fridays. For more info on how you can be spotlighted on the Love My Tapes blog click here.
If you haven't tried our adhesive yet please visit our online store are Love My Tapes.com. We have a great special for multi packs of the doubles sided adhesives right now.

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello Tape Fans! It's Tuesday and time for another fabulous tape tip. If this is your first time visiting us, each Tuesday we showcase a unique tape tip for either our Japanese Masking Tapes or our super fabulous, super strong double sided adhesive. This week's Tape Tip comes from Joanne Nishimitsu:

I'm Joanne Nishimitsu from Mililani, Hawaii. I'm a Wife to Marc, Mommy to Emily Jay, and I'm also a full-time Social Worker at a local Hospice Care Agency.

I've been crafting all my life, but now working in career that can sometimes be very emotional and personal-- crafting is my outlet and stress relief! Some of my other hobbies include: photography, art journaling, shopping, collecting vintage deer and owls, learning new things, and personal growth.

I love finding new mediums to craft with, and find that Japanese Masking Tape is so versatile and fun! I always say, "What can't you do with Japanese Tape?!?!"

Thank You!
Joanne Nishimitsu

We spotted Joanne's masking tape project on her blog last week and asked her to share it with us for Tuesday's Tape Tip. She created an altered wood photo frame using 5 different patterned Japanese Masking Tapes.


The design is simple and easy to recreate. Joanne gives her instructions on the photo below


Supplies: frame available at most craft stores

Tape Styles from the top, 2 pack Koharu & Karumi, stripe gold, & 2 pack Hougan grey & blue

Love My Tapes all of the styles listed available in the store now and orders ship from our warehouse in New Jersey so you won't have a delay in getting your Masking Tapes to create your own frames.

We'd like to thank Joanne for sharing her tape tip with us today! For more inspiration from this Japanese Masking Tape fan visit Joanne's blog Emjayandme

If you've got a Tape Tip send it on over to us at LoveMyTapes@gmail.com. We love showing off our fans ideas for using our fantastic tapes!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Good morning! Today's Tuesday Tape Tip is a tutorial using glitter. Our double sided adhesive is perfect for creating your own glitter borders on your projects. The adhesive holds glitter really well and it doesn't shake off once you apply.

Supplies: Love My Tapes Adhesive, cardstock and glitter.

Start with a strip of adhesive on your card stock. I wanted to make my border thick so I used 3 strips of adhesive show below. Notice that our adhesive doesn't break and that you get full strips of glue when you swipe the applicator.


Next sprinkle your glitter generously. I used Martha Stewart silver glitter for my project.

Next shake off the excess glitter to reveal your glitter border.

I stood the card stock up and laid some white doilies down so you could see that the glitter was adhered to the card stock well with no flaking or mess. Notice no excess glitter. We love that!

And our finished project.

There are a variety of borders you can create using glitter and with so many colors the possibilities are endless.
If you decide to give this project a try link up your creations to this post so we can take a look or upload them to our new Flickr group here.
Thanks for stopping by for Tuesday's Tape Tip!

Tuesday Tape Tip with Sarah Martina Parker

I've got a treat for you today! This week's Tuesday Tape tip comes to us from the beautiful and talented Sarah Martina Parker...

I am Sarah Martina Parker. Wife. Mother. Full time bank employee (Zzzzz… lol!). Part time law student. There’s more, but I don’t want to ramble.

I LOVE my hubby and kids. I couldn’t have wished for a better family to be surrounded with. Then of course, my other love – crafts! The word alone makes me drool . I also love to eat… and cooking, well, I only like to do the fun stuff… like cupcakes.

Sarah is an amazing Designer who's cards have been published in several card and craft magazines including Paper Crafts newest Special Issue Go to Sketches


Sarah's Tape tip is to use Japanese Masking Tapes to create designs on your cards like she did on this sweet Thank You card

I love how she created a zig zag border with the masking tape across the front of her card. Most of the time when we use tape we paste it in a straight line across the card or from top to bottom. I knew when I asked Sarah to work with our tapes I knew she'd inspire us to think outside of the box.

If you'd like to see more of Sarah's amazing cards please visit her blog Designs by Sarah Martina.
Thursday we'll be featuring more of Sarah's designs so be sure and come back for more amazing inspiration!
If you're interested in our Japanese masking tapes visit our website to check out the styles and colors we have available @ Love My Tapes.com

Spring is in the air...

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the flowers are blooming everywhere. I love making different types of flowers out of patterned paper and our double sided adhesive is perfect for holding layer upon layer of card stock beautifully. It also holds ribbon and different fibers well too like the pom pom accent on the card featured above.

Here's a quick and easy layered flower tutorial.


You'll need a Slice to copy this exact example, I used the Basics 2 cartridge. You can also use any flower shaped die cut template

First I cut 2 3" flowers, 2 2 1/2" flowers and 1 2" flower.

Next use some distress ink to ink the edges


Next run a strip of Love My Tapes double sided adhesive across the middle of each die cut and layer the flowers from largest to smallest.

Next bend each petal upwards and play with the shape until you are happy with the way your flower looks.

Here's a side view

Next add some bling to the center of the flower. I chose to mix pearls and rhinestones.

Here's the finished flower...ready to add to a layout, card or project.

Supplies you'll need:
Crate Paper Paper Doll collection :Emma
Slice Die Cutting Machine
Slice Basic Shapes 2 Cartridge
Love My Tapes Double Sided Adhesive
Tim Holtz Distress Ink :Vintage Photo
Tim Holtz Blending tool
Recollections Pearls
Queen and Co Rhinestones

Tuesday Tape Tip

This week's tape tip come to us from Jen Coker. Jen is the owner of an online store called Torendi which means "trendy" in Japanese. It's no wonder Jen loves Japanese Masking Tapes, they are a current trend in the crafting community.
Jen's tape tip is to use the Japanese Masking tape as a border on cards. Here's a cute card she created to show her technique

She uses the tape as a border around the edges of the card shown here
And as an accent across the front. So cute! If you'd like to see more of Jen's work visit her blog Double N Designs.
If you have a tape tip please email us at lovemytapes@gmail.com. Maybe you'll see your project featured here next on Tuesday Tape Tips!
Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday Tape Tip

It seems the Japanese masking tapes are taking off as a current trend. Last week Megan Hoeppner posted some of her ideas for masking tapes on her blog and featured Love My Tapes on the Studio 5 morning show.
Here's an idea for our Tuesday Tape Tip...use your masking tapes to make borders on your scrapbooking layouts.

This layout features the Live Loud collection by Imaginisce. This design is perfect for adding tape borders to accent.
The striped tapes are great for decorating card stock because the are transparent and the color shows through the tape.And they are re-positional so if you don't get your line straight you can lift it up without tearing your card stock and place it back down smoothly.
I'd love to see the borders you create with your Japanese Masking tapes so link them up here to this post. We might just feature your projects on the blog for our fans to see!

Tuesday Tape Tip!

Hi friends. It' time for another Tuesday Tape Tip. I was cleaning out the kitchen last night and found this class jar without a top and was about to throw it out when I realized how fun it would be to decoupage the jar with our masking tapes. And so this idea was born...



The flowers are made from placing strips of the tape on cardstock and using a Sizzix die to cut them into shapes...Super easy.

Start with whatever styles you'd like to use for your flowers

Then make strips on the card stock like this
The run them thru the Cuttlebug with the Sizzix die
And you have lots of flowers

For the center of the flowers I used the new button daddies from Imaginisce. I threaded the floral wire through the back and then through the center if the die cut flowers.

And then you have this result.


Oh and I want to make sure to include a close up of the re-purposed jar.

This project took me an hour total. I hope you enjoyed the pics and if you have any questions just leave them here and I will be sure to answer you.
Thanks for stopping by!