March Scrapbooksteals.com Blog Hop - Love My Tapes Washi

If you're here from Scrap Your Story, check out my design team post below. 

If you didn't come here from Michele's blog, then head back to Scrapbooksteals.com and start from the beginning of the hop. 

I'm very excited about today's Scrapbooksteals.com blog hop - it has been so much fun seeing what everyone has done! There are so many fabulous ideas for how to use Washi Tape that it was hard to narrow down one project for one of the trendiest scrapbook supplies on the market. 

I was given two Love My Tapes washi. Now I know that I said washi is one of my favorite supplies, but I tend to just hoard them so this was a fun little challenge because I "had" to play with them. 

That striped washi was a bit of a challenge for me, it wasn't something I would normally buy. Every time I put it on something I had this feeling that it really should be used on a nautical themed project. But what, we're not lighthouse and seascape people?! And then we introduced our boys to Peter Pan. The next morning I woke up with a vague sense of this pirate card. 

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the bracket shape, banner, map, title, and pirate octopus. Then I pulled out some white cardstock and filled in the negative space from the bracket with rows of my striped washi. A Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder lent a sort of sea shell feel to the black background. 

And now I love that little roll! I'm going to be making a few more of that card for sure. 

While I'd been struggling with the stripes I was having a lot of fun altering items with the black and white squiggles. 

This vase was picked up at the thrift store. I wrapped four long strips of washi, keeping them at an angle so that they stayed flat all the way around.

I liked the vase filled with my scrappy "girl color" flowers so much that I decorated a second vase for the "boy colored" flowers with a similar Love My Tapes washi that I stole a while back. Both sit within easy reach in my workspace. Maybe I'll use flowers a bit more now?! 

Finally, I'd picked up this little wooden frame one day at Michael's. I needed a gift for a 50th Anniversary party I was attending and was inspired by the sentiment on the My Mind's Eye "Follow Your Heart" papers. After much fussy cutting and foam dots, the washi strips gave it a nice finishing touch. 

Now don't forget that there's a $20 Steals.com gift code up for grabs. All you have to do to enter is hop along to all the blogs, leaving comments at each stop. You only have until 11:59 p.m. MST on Sunday, March 3, to make those comments. Winners will be announced on the Scrapbooksteals blog on Tuesday, March 5.

I hope you had a great time hopping and thanks for stopping by! This should have been your last stop, but in case you missed the order somehow, here it is again:

ScrapbookSteals
Creating with Paper and more - Kelly Holifield
The ramblings of a crafty working Mom - Julie Cordero

Scrappin the little things - Deborah Johnson

Li'l Buck's Creations - Misty Buck
Becci's handmade collection - Becci Manies
It's about the paper - Michele Duffy
Errant scraps - Jessica Arrant