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10 Ways to Transform Your Space With Washi Tape
Washi tape comes in a rainbow of patterns and is easily removable without leaving damage or residue. It's the perfect material to use to decorate a dorm room and personalize college belongings.
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Space-Saving Jewelry Storage
Create a funky place to show off your favorite necklaces by taping a tree onto your wall with washi tape. Use small pieces of tape to create each branch, then attach necklaces with thumbtacks. This jewelry tree is completely flat against the wall and saves precious counter space in a small room.
2.
Dress Up Paper Lanterns
Coordinate a basic paper lantern to the color scheme of your dorm room by applying strips of washi tape. Pick a coordinating color scheme, like teal and gold, or go crazy and create a rainbow. Either way, everyone will want to know where you purchased that custom hanging light.
3.
No More Standard Doors
Rid your room of boring closet doors with a few strips of colorful washi tape. Extra-wide washi tape makes a big impression on large areas. Create a dynamic look by placing different washi tapes on the diagonal in a crisscross pattern. Each piece is easily removable without damaging painted or wooden doors.
4.
Personalize Colorful Frames
Tape up inspirational magazine clippings, pictures of friends and artwork with washi tape that can be easily removed and changed on a whim. Create funky geometric shapes with the tape around a few of the images.
5.
Give Personality to a Plain Table
Create a custom side table by covering a plain one with a variety of washi tape. In a diagonal pattern, place tapes in various sizes next to each other. Washi tape won't ruin a tabletop, but if you'd prefer your new piece to be permanent and water resistant, paint a few layers of clear gloss lacquer over the tape to seal it.
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Add Pep to Your Flowers
A dorm room will feel more like home with fresh flowers around. Personalize clear glass vases with layers of colored washi tape to match the decor of your room. Stick stripes of patterned and solid tape on top of each other to create quirky vases that your friends will love.
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No-Damage Wall Messages
Bare dorm room walls can be bland and boring. Fill your room with a few uplifting quotes by taping them directly onto the wall with washi tape. Try spelling out each word in a different color of tape for a true splash of color.
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Decorative Electronics
Never confuse your chargers with your roommate's again by personalizing yours with a funky tape design. Wrap small pieces of tape around the cord, and you'll always be able to find your chargers with ease.
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Lively Nightlight
Update an old lampshade with layers of patterned washi tape to create a hip, colorful new decoration for your room. For the most variety, use different widths and colors of washi tape that all have something in common. For example, these tapes are all a white pattern on a colored background.
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Create a Colorful Desk
Basic storage boxes are given an update with modern washi tape. Choose one main patterned tape to be the centerpiece, then choose three or four solid, dotted and striped tapes that are similar in color to those found on your main tape. This will create a cohesive look that still appears fresh and trendy.
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Egg Carton Lillies
This might be the easiest ever egg carton flower craft for kids. It includes all the fun of painting and making curly pipe cleaner parts, but is a super simple and quick eco project. It is especially good for the little ones to make for Mother’s day so we’ve included a printable leaf template with little Mother’s day messages as an option.
Follow our step-by-step tutorial below and grab your free template too!
WHAT YOU NEED:
egg cartons
scissors
paints and brush
pipe cleaners and some tape
scissors
paints and brush
pipe cleaners and some tape
HOW TO MAKE THE EGG CARTON FLOWERS (LILLIES):
1. Get some egg cartons. We have them piling up all the time!
2. You’ll need the cone-shaped middle bits. Tear them off like this.
3. Cut the corners with a scissors like this. It’s very easy but children – be careful with the scissors when you cut thick materials!
4. Paint them in your favorite colors. You can make white lilles or a big colorful bouquet.
5. Curl one end of your pipe cleaner around a pencil or brush, then pull it to stretch a bit. Make it long enough for the inside of the flower and leave enough length left straight for the stem.
We wanted to use yellow pipe cleaners (although it can be any color) but we only had old-style white cotton ones so we partly painted them yellow. You might have different looking pipe cleaners, just use whatever you have (wire, sticks…) creatively.
Make holes at the bottom of the egg carton cones with a sharp object. Don’t make the hole too big.
We wanted to use yellow pipe cleaners (although it can be any color) but we only had old-style white cotton ones so we partly painted them yellow. You might have different looking pipe cleaners, just use whatever you have (wire, sticks…) creatively.
Make holes at the bottom of the egg carton cones with a sharp object. Don’t make the hole too big.
6. Put your curled up pipe cleaner through the hole.
7. You can put some tape around the bottom of the flower if needed.
8. Now try some lovely flower arranging in a small jar!
9. Or make some leaves to go with it! You can cut any paper you have in a leaf shape or print our template with messages for this. Pinch the end of the leaf around the bottom of the flower and tape it to fix.
Our free printable files are for personal use only.
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Please read our terms & conditions before downloading, thank you!
Make a lovely present for a special mom on Mother’s day. Or use them to decorate your gifts for any occasion!
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Lovely Daffodils from Egg Cartons
Daffodils are among the first flowers to tell us it’s spring! As a part of our spring crafts for kids, we’ve made egg carton daffodils – great as a craft project to kick off spring & also perfect for Easter crafts using old egg cartons.
Follow our easy step-by-step tutorial.
Follow our easy step-by-step tutorial.
WHAT YOU NEED
egg cartons
white, yellow, orange paints & brush
white, yellow papers, scissors, glue
white, yellow, orange paints & brush
white, yellow papers, scissors, glue
HOW TO MAKE EGG CARTON DAFFODILS
1. First, tear the ‘cup’ parts off the egg carton. Tear the edges roughly by hand so they look like natural ruffles.
2. Ask children to observe daffodils outside or in photos. Paint the torn egg cartons with yellow & orange colors to make the middle part of the flower.
Tip: With normal acrylic paints, yellow paints are translucent and white paints are opaque. So if you paint yellow color directly onto a dark egg carton, it can look dull. Paint them with white first, wait until it dries completely then paint yellow color on top. This way the yellow will look vivid and bright.
Tip: With normal acrylic paints, yellow paints are translucent and white paints are opaque. So if you paint yellow color directly onto a dark egg carton, it can look dull. Paint them with white first, wait until it dries completely then paint yellow color on top. This way the yellow will look vivid and bright.
3. Daffodils have 6 petals, ask children to count the number of petals and help them draw a template. Or you can print our template onto white or yellow papers and use this as a guide. Pinch the middle of each petal to make it more 3-dimensional as in the photo below.
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4. Glue the painted egg cups in the middle. Done!
Decorate your room or furniture with the lovely paper daffodils and enjoy the early spring! How about decorating a gift with them?
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Polymer Gift Tags
Today (well this month), we're in for a treat! Mitsy of the lovely shop and blog ArtMind will be sharing some of her fabulous tutorials with us. If you haven't visited her site, it's a must see, as not only does she make beautiful wares, she has an amazing tutorial section. Click here. Today she is showing us how to make polymer gift tags, perfect for a valentine! Thanks Mitsy! Click below to read:
In July, I saw the new exchange program on Totally Tutorials. The idea behind it is that suppliers offer supplies in exchange for a tutorial. As you all know, I love making tutorials & I love supplies so I didn't have to think twice. I applied for the nice set of 1.5mm letter/number stamps from Evie's Tool Emporium. They arrived very soon after she decided who was going to get them, but I was so busy preparing for the craft fairs that I didn't have much time to play around with them. Well, time has come to show you what I did with them...
I used polymer clay (Fimo) to create gift tags from them. I decided to try white and black and see what the results were.
Here is what you need:
Metal stamping letters/numbers set, polymer clay, acrylic paint, flat wooden sticks, ceramic tiles or glass, cookie cutters, rolling pin, embossing tool or fat needle, paper plate, paintbrush and a cloth.
Take a piece of polymer clay and soften it while kneading.
Put the flat wooden sticks on the ceramic tile (makes it easier to transfer to the oven) and roll with the rolling pin over the clay so that it's nice, flat and even.
When you rolled out a piece, lift it up carefully and transfer it to another tile so you can roll out more little clay slabs.
Punch with your cookie cutters, figures out of the polymer clay slab.
I made two sets in black and white clay.
Before you stat using your letter stamp set, wipe it off with a soft cloth. The stamps are a bit oily to make sure they don't start to rust.
Before you start stamping, try your stamp on a sample of Polymer clay.
This way you know how hard you have to press the stamp to get result and it will also be good to see if you're not holding the stamp upside down.
Hold the metal stamptool as straight as possible and press lightly into the clay.
Here is what I stamped...
If you click on this picture below, you will see better what I stamped on the clay.
Take your embossing tool or needle to punch a hole in the clay.
Carefully take the piece of clay off the ceramic tile and punch with your embossingtool or needle on the backside of the clay so that the hole can be used.
Preheat your oven to 110°C or read the instructions on the packaging of the polymer clay you are using.
Put the ceramic tiles with the clay pieces in the oven for 30 minutes
and let it cool down afterwards. It's ready to use when they feel cold.
Put some acrylic paint on a paper plate and paint the sides and front of the clay.
Let it dry for a while.
When it's dry, rub it with a damp cloth so that most of the paint will come off again.
The harder you rub, the more paint will come off.
Here is another example with gold acrylic paint. Paint it.
Rub the paint away with a damp cloth.
Ready!
Here are some results on the white and black clay. On the white ones, the paint doesn 't look really good I think but I love the black ones. On the white ones, the paint just looks a bit dirty... It obviously is best to use this technique with colored polymer and contrasting paint.
I made a little package with very thin metal wire. I twist the wire around a needle to create a tiny spiral.
I used chrochet thread to wrap double around the package.
You can also make it an ornament.
Wrap lots of chrochet thread around the package and add the clay label.
Only wrap thread around one edge and attach the clay gift tag.
In case you have a hard time getting the thin thread through the little hole, here's a tiny trick that makes it super easy...
Cut a small piece of metal wire.
Fold the metal thread in half and put the thread in between.
Stick the metal thread through the little hole of the clay.
See how easy it is, you don't even need glasses for that! :)
I love the white, untreated gift tags best, they kind of look like porcelain clay...
There are lots of possibilities with this metal letter stamp set and I can't wait to use it for my ceramic work too. If you like to try it for yourself, don't hesitate and order a set of your own at EviesToolEmporium. I garantuee you lots of pleasure with it! :)
Michele from EviesToolEmporium also gave away a metal letterstamp set to a jewelry designer who used it to stamp metal. She made a little video montage and it's awesome, you can find that tutorial here.
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