Welcome to Washi Tape Tuesday! Love washi tape? (Or maybe you have a stash that you want to put to use?) Then join me for tips, techniques and ideas for adding washi tape to your handmade cards!
Let’s talk mistakes.
Or, “creative opportunities”.
It happens to all of us—the errant thumbprint on your just-stamped card focal, the blurred image or the crookedly cut cardstock. Some of them are fixable, and some of them you just can’t save.
But when the mistake happens at the very end of the creative process, it’s really a pain, isn’t it? It’s one thing to stamp a blurry image on a piece of plain white cardstock. It’s another to get to the very end of a multi-step process and then get a black streak of embossing paste on your piece. Argh!
Which is what happened here:
Can you see the black mark? It happened just as I lifted off the stencil.
So I covered it with washi tape. Easy!
Washi Tape Stenciled Card, what you need—
– Washi tape: white with black dots (MT), black with white dots (Little B)
– Stencil Abstract Leaves (The Crafter’s Workshop)
– Wendy Vecchi Studio 40 black embossing paste
– Cardstock: white, black, kraft
– Black ribbon
– Brayer
– Palette knife
– Spectrum Noir alcohol ink refill: CR8
– Rubbing alcohol
– Craft sheet
– Masking tape or stencil tape
Washi Tape Stenciled Card, how to make it—
1. Place a few drops of the Spectrum Noir alcohol ink refill on your craft sheet. Spritz with rubbing alcohol, then brayer onto white cardstock.
2. Tape the stencil in place and use the palette knife to apply embossing paste through the stencil. Lift the stencil straight off and clean immediately. Let the stenciled piece dry. (Hopefully you won’t get any marks you have to cover up!)
3. Apply strips of washi tape as shown, overlapping them slightly.
4. Mat the piece on black and white cardstock. Form a card base with kraft cardstock and glue in the center. Add a bow tied in black ribbon.
A quick note: Whenever you have to cover something dark, like this black embossing paste, opt for a dark washi tape. Since washi tape is translucent, whatever is underneath can show through light or pastel colors. That’s why this black and white dot from Little B was perfect!
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