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If you've been following our blog since the beginning, you may have noticed we love our gift wrap! This year I thought it would be fun to do something with all of the washi tape I had on hand, and started playing around with ideas. I always love to go out and forage our backyard this time of year to top our gifts, and then the idea came to me to try to create these gold leaves from a hedge in the front of our yard and some metallic gold washi tape from Scotch
® Expressions collection. I even ended up wrapping some of the berries too from the same hedge for some of the gift toppers. The result is a simple DIY project, that ended up being a lot of fun to make and so easy too! Check out the how-to below!
I
don't know about you, but I'm always on the hunt for new washi tape
projects. While these colourful tapes are definitely multi-taskers, one
of my favourite ways to use them has always been for wrapping. Here's a fun (and easy!) way to make your own custom wrapping paper and a few clever ways to stretch the life of your washi tape!
Using
the washi tape, create a design of your choice all over a piece of
printer paper. I made 4 different designs - classic washi strips,
stripes, houses and starbursts.
Using
the colour copy function of your printer, make as many copies of your
design as you would like. It's also a great idea to scan and save your
design - this way you can always print out more wrapping paper as you
need it!
One
of the best qualities of washi tape is that it is removable,
replaceable and reusable. You will find that once you make one design,
you can (carefully) peel the tape off the paper and reuse it make
another design. My washi strips were reused to make the houses, and the
stripes became starbursts. But be warned that each time you stick, unstick and restick it, the washi tape will lose a little of its stickiness.
Once you've created your wrapping paper, why not reuse the tape strips? Grab some blank shipping tags and get crafty making up pretty tags to match your paper.
Of
course, unless you go wild with tag making, you'll still have strips
left over. Use these strips to seal up your packages as you wrap!
Finish your parcel off with some pretty twine or ribbon and one of the tags.
Ta-da! One-of-a-kind washi wrapping paper and matching tags!
Have you seen any fantastic washi tape tutorials or inspiration lately?
Lover of all things crafty, clever and charming, Marisa runs Omiyage.ca -
a webshop full of cute stationery, crafty goodness, pretty packaging
supplies and, of course, rolls and rolls of gorgeous washi tape! Connect
with her on Twitter, join the Omiyage facebook page, or visit Omiyage Blogs for more DIY projects, crafty inspiration and lots more!
mt tape, washi tape, mix tape, Japanese masking tape, whatever you may call it - I've rounded up some of the best DIY/project ideas using it that I could find online. There's some great sources out there to be inspired by starting with our very own Tokyo contributor, Hello Sandwich, also check out the mt masking tapes flickr pool, a couple pages over at Pinterest, here and here, and then online shops such as Omiyage (who happens to be in our market this month), Happy Tape, Uncommon Goods, Etsy and manufacturer, mt has heaps of project ideas as well. Check it out!
Continuing on our search for the Most Influential of 2011, here's Part 4! And in case you missed the others, you can check Parts 1, 2 and 3 here (just after Part 4).
Back in August Little Paper Planes launched their wide format print collection which totally had us excited! We were so happy to see these (especially the black and white photography)! More please!
Falcon Enamelware
Falcon Enamelware revitalized the Falcon range – creating new sets and colours with the classic cookware and extending the collection into new areas beyond the kitchen. Click here to see.
Giant Washi Tape
Ours eyes popped out of our heads when we first saw this giant washi tape coming out of Japan this year. Japanese wallpaper and flooring company, Sincol and Japanese washi masking tape company mt have joined forces to release a collection of giant masking tapes for interior use! Thanks Hello Sandwich!
Beautiful over-dyed rugs have been popping up for a while now here and there, but this year it seemed we saw a bit more like this one from Moonish and even IKEA is planning a run on them.
This wall of recycled doors by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek for an Amsterdam residential project is simply jaw-dropping.
Vintage Camera Night Lights
These vintage camera night lights by Jason Hull are nothing other than brilliant! Learn how to make them here.
Stacking Vessels by Pia Wustenberg
Stacking Vessels is a series of functional sculptures for the home. Each Vessel consists of three individual containers. One from glass, one wood and one ceramic. By Pia Wustenberg.
A vintage trailer + cupcakes! Bring a cupcake vintage trailer to your party! Enjoy cupcakes brings the bakery to your party! Guests enjoy treats served out of an adorable restored vintage Shasta trailer, twinkling lights, a festive canopy and a wafting sweet smell of cupcakes!
For
the past few weeks I've slowly been adding a little dingle-doo holiday
craft attack to our home. I just can't seem to get enough of sprucing
our place up Christmas-y style this year! My holiday decor style is as
such: look around the house and see what you can make into something
that looks kind of holiday-ish without spending a zillion dollars and
being wasteful. I thought I'd share these last minute ideas with you,
as they are simple as pie to whip up, and only require a few supplies.
File under: Holiday Lazy Crazy Cute!
Lazy Cute Crafts # 1: Easy Paper
Circle Garland! You know how some crafty sewing type people can whip
up one of those adorable circle garlands? Sadly my sewing skills really
stink. If you're like me, why not try this method? You will need a
circle or shape craft punch in any size, some cute craft paper (or any
old paper - recycle something!) some string (I used paper twine) and a
mini hole puncher. Punch out your circles, then punch out two mini
circles on your punched out circle (ha) and then string along to your
heart's desire! So easy! You can do this while listening to your
favourite record or while watching 30 minutes of Bridget Jones's Diary
or an Ingmar Bergman film! String up your super-simple circle garland
and your house is instantly jazzed.
Punch out shapes and punch out mini holes! The two mini holes help your garland to lie flat.
String it along on a piece of paper twine or thin ribbon! Tie it up to
windows, door frames, or use it as a garland for your Christmas tree!
Cute! Or, gift it to a friend -handmade gifts rule!
Lazy Cute Crafts #2: Cute Japanese Masking Tape Tree Branches! I love my Dahlhaus
vase and wanted to make it look holiday-ish. So I went outside and
snipped a few thin branches of our bare Japanese maple tree. I was
thinking of making baubles or something for it when I saw my collection
of washi tape and thought, "what about tape?"! I think it looks pretty
cute and festive, and it took me about nineteen seconds! (10 minutes?)
to do! Fold over the tape on a branch, and snip with scissors to form
that cute inverted triangle look. You can do holiday colours or stick
with a pretty colour theme. Washi tape can sometimes be found for cheap
at a Japanese dollar store (such as Daiso) or online at many places such as Omiyage - just google washi tape! Or, you could also create the same look using ribbon, stuck together with double-sided tape.
Lazy Cute Crafts #3: Branches
Strung Up On A Rope Around Your Door! I bought one branch of
beautiful-smelling white pine for two dollars from my local florist, Olla Flowers,
and man I've been jamming this stuff for weeks now. I placed it in
vases around the house for an instant Wintery look, and now I'ved used
it to string up around my door. Sure, it looks home-job DIY but there's a
charm to it, right? All I did was tie up the pine branches along with
some cedar branches (cut from our backyard tree) with rough ropey-twine I
found at the dollar store. I used three push pins on top of the door
frame to secure the rope!
Happy Holidays everyone! Hope you enjoyed this lazy-crafts post!
On my search for a little washi tape this past weekend, I decided to go to the source and visit the original mt tape
site out of Japan. Whilst there and much to my delight I came across a
little washi tape inspiration gallery. From a cute typewriter makeover
(including journal taping for notes) to a colourful and fun wallpapered
kitchen, here's a few washi tape decor ideas, Japanese-style.
Dots and stripes - update a table or lamp or planter
