Washi Tape Effect Tutorial

I had lots of left over trimmed paper that is too nice and expensive to throw away. I love washi tape, but that is too expensive for me to buy regularly. My solution is to improvise with masking tape! Just cover the paper you love with masking tape, design side up. Trim to the size you want, pop some double sided tape on the back and there you have your very own free washi tape. And you can write on it which is the best part.
I developed the idea by wrapping the tape round the cup of a tea light, and that would make a really cute stocking filler or tombola stall item, but use any where you would use washi; labels, projects and cards

Christmas Fair Goodies Are Finally Finished

FLOGGAGE

Wow. Total slog, If I could be bothered I'd do an infographic displaying my sheer panic, worry, frustration, acceptance, making a mess, starting again, abandoning, scrapping, tinkering, tweaking and finishing from the last 3 weeks. The brief was to make six impulse buys we could sell at an end of term Christmas Fair. I've made about twenty. But I am opening my Etsy shop soon so I really needed to make a cross section of what I can make for cheap so I can see what will sell.
My first idea was a little collection of birds made from clay and peering into their own idea of what Home is. I called it Home. It's interesting the way birds live. So beautiful and decorative yet essentially homeless apart from when they have babies. I myself had a bit of an empty nest syndrome last year and I felt quite confused. Liberated but groundless and a bit scared of the possibilities. It didn't last. A tutor explained to me it might be a little too important for an impulse buy, so I kept some elements, ready to wear jewellery and dec objects, but went back to the drawing board. I gave myself TSS with resin for jewellery, some worked out some didn't. I went through a brick of Polymer clay, but made back the money with packaging supplies from a gifted crafting kit. I love working in miniatures in polymer clay, and came up with little charms you can put on key rings or just play with. A whole weekend was spent carving, twisting, baking and painting, another couple of days to attach the charms to lovely individual tags. So much time is spent waiting for things to reach the next stage. It frazzles the nerves. Finally I'm done. Packaged up and ready to price. Wish me luck! I will do tutorials for these things of course but all in due time. I also designed a couple of flyers for the sale

So I've been mad busy, and managed to look it when I was in the waiting stages. Now I have a mountain of real business type boring homework to catch up on and of course, the dreaded sale. I need some ginseng and vitamin C. 

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