Tuesday Tape Tip with Guest Vera Yates Ling

Hi tape fans! We've got a fantastic tutorial for today's Tuesday tape Tip from our guest Vera Yates Ling!

Vera is a very talented card maker and very sweet person. I was really happy to meet Vera in Chicago at CHA. She is a talented card maker whom I met in the Hero Arts Flickr group and she made the Top 5 for Gallery Idol this year with her amazing creations! Vera loves our products and send me the link to this adorable tutorial she did using our fabulous adhesive! Yes you heard right, our adhesive hold ribbon beautifully! So enjoy today's tip from Vera and then leave us a comment telling us what you think!

Ribbon Fish Tutorial

 

It might take you a couple trial & error to get the fish looks right. The first time I did this fish for Gallery Idol, I didn't have any direction on how to do it. I basically figured it out myself just by looking at the end result. Took me at least an hour for my first try. This time, it only took 10 minutes.

 

Step 1: Using a 5/8" ribbon, cut it to about 7"-8". I prefer longer, so you can play with it easier. Overlap them just like in the picture below. The opening in between t he 2 ribbon is basically the fish mouth. You can adjust it to however big or wide you want the mouth to be and glue the overlap ribbon. I used "Love My Tapes" permanent adhesive for this. And make sur eyou only glue the very top part to the 2nd, and not to the 3rd or bottom layer or you'll end up with sickly looking fish with flat head. You want the head to puff a bit. Puffy head = healthy fish. :)

Step 2: To tie the body together, I folded my 5/8" ribbon in half & glued it (see the skinny strip above). If you have a skinnier ribbon, then you can use the skinny ribbon for it. Now, you want to pinch the ribbon together, like the picture below.

Step 3: Using a glue dot, wrap the skinny ribbon around the body. Make sure you put the glue dot on the back side to keep the fish look neat.  Cut the end of both end, so it looks like fish tail.

Cut two 2" long skinny ribbon for the fin. Or if you don't have one, cut the 5/8" ribbon in half like I did. If you do this,  then you have to seal the fray end with the tip of hit glue gun or used a lighter. Just remember, fire hot! If you use lighter, make sure you don't get the fire too close. Only close enough to get it sealed the edges. Sorry, couldn't take pic for when I did this since hubby wasn't anywhere close when I did this, so no second person to take the pic & I can't hold lighter & camera at the same time. 

Step 4: Overlap & glue the 2" ribbon like shown below.

Step 5: Glued the fin to the body. As you can see, on the above picture I attached the fin right in the middle of the body. That was wrong position. The picture below show the right position. Add a wiggly eye and you're done!!

So, what you think? Easy, right? With a fish like this, you don't need much of anything else to make your card shine. I made a super simple, CAS looking card. I do adore my fish.

Thank you so much Vera for joining us today! For more inspiration from Vera please visit her blog!

Don't forget our Love Mondays challenge! For all the details click here

Love Mondays

Hello Tape Fans! Hope you had a great weekend!! It's Monday and we're back with a new challenge! This week's inspirational photo from the blog A Creative Mint has plenty of ideas to draw inspiration from. I just love the variety of colors to choose from.

Your challenge for this Monday should you choose to accept it is to create a card based on this  photo from A Creative Mint and post it on your blog and link back to this post here at Love My Tapes. You have until Thursday at midnight Pacific time to link up your photos to this post and Friday we'll feature all of your projects and choose 1 entry using Random.org to win a Love My Tapes prize pack.
Now this week I am changing the rules a bit: We ask that you don't combine other challenges with ours. And we'll give you an extra entry if a friend plays and posts that you referred them to the challenge and another entry if you post your card on our Facebook page here!
We'd love for you to use your Love My Tapes Adhesive or fabric tapes but if you don't have any Love My Tapes products to use that's OK.
Have fun and Happy Monday!

Feature Friday

Hello tape fans! It's Feature Friday and that means we're showing off your challenge cards today! I was happy to see we had some more new players this week for our Love Mondays challenge. Here's a look at this week's entries:

Sparda

Angela

Jeja

Great job ladies!! Your cards are all great and I love how everyone drew something different from the inspirational photo! So this week's winner is.....

Angela!!

Congratulations! Please email me your full name and mailing address to lovemytapes@gmail.com by next Friday.

Have a great weekend everyone and don't forget we'll have a new challenge on Monday!!

More ribbon pleating with fabric tape

Hello tape fans! Today I wanted to share a sample I created for CHA using our fabulous Penny Fabric Tape and more ribbon pleating.

 Supplies: Love My Tapes Adhesive and Penny Fabric Tape. Stamped images Unity Stamp Company sentiment and Hero Arts Heart. Papertrey Ink ribbon. Cosmo Cricket patterned paper.

You can easily recreate this project by stamping the heart stamp from Hero Arts and cutting the image out. Then layer a piece of card stock behind the stamp and cut out a shadow shaped heart.  Then start at the right side of the heart and start your ribbon pleating with the fabric tape until you've gone around the whole shape. Then use pop dots behind the stamped image and layer it over the pleated tape and assemble your card
Pretty easy right?
I hope you'll try this pleating technique and link up your creation to this post so I can stop by your blog and check it out.
Don't forget this week's Love Mondays challenge. For all the details click here!

And don't forget to stop by The Scrap Review here. We're being featured there today and there's a giveaway!!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello Tape Fans! I'm back with more fabric flowers for this week's Tape Tip. Yep I'm addicted! Now I'm tickled pink over this latest monochromatic creation. Here's a pic of my supplies

Our yummy Berry Fabric Tape, PaperTrey Inks pink buttons, Martha Stewart punch, Grafix vellum paper and some bubble gum waxy flax.
Using the same technique in the video I posted on this Tuesday Tape Tip here.

You can vary the sizes of your fabric flowers like I did for this card below:

Here's a close up of the flower

I'd love to see your fabric tape flowers so link them up to this post and I'll come by your blogs. If you don't have some of our fabuloous fabric tapes then order some here from our website. For availability of the solid colors please email us at Love My Tapes@hotmail.com

Love Mondays

Hello tape fans! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! We're back with a new challenge and brand new inspirational photo from the blog A Creative Mint. We've decided to do this each Monday to give our fans a chance to win some free product from us!  If you are just joining us, every Monday we'll be posting a new photo for you to draw inspiration from.

Here's this week's photo!

Your challenge for this Monday should you choose to accept it is to create a card based on this  photo from A Creative Mint and post it on your blog and link back to this post here at Love My Tapes. You have until Thursday at midnight Pacific time to link up your photos to this post and Friday we'll feature all of your projects and choose 1 entry using Random.org to win a Love My Tapes prize pack.
We'd love for you to use your Love My Tapes Adhesive or fabric tapes but if you don't have any Love My Tapes products to use that's OK. If you do use our products make sure you mention that you did so you can get a 2nd entry into the drawing.

Last week's winner was Donelda! This week it could be you!

Sound like fun? Now go get your scrap on!

Feature Friday

Hello tape fans! It's Feature Friday and that means we're showing off your challenge cards today! I was happy to see we had some new players this week for our Love Mondays challenge. Here's a look at this week's entries:

Giovana

Donelda

Spardha

Kristy

Great job ladies! All of your cards are fantastic! So we've written each one of your names on a ticket and placed them in a bowl and my sweet son has chosen this week's winner....

Donelda!!!

Congratulations! Please email me your full name and mailing address to lovemytapes@gmail.com by next Friday.

Have a great weekend everyone and don't forget we'll have a new challenge on Monday!!

Want to win some fab Love My Tapes goodies???

Hello tape fans! I know many of you don't have our products just yet but we are working real hard to get our fabulous adhesives out to your favorite scrapbook stores! We met many of those owners at Summer CHA and at the Super Show. I can tell you first hand that when people stopped by our booth and tried our adhesives themselves the were impressed with how strong and smooth our adhesive rolled onto the paper. We know many people are nervous about trying new products but once you give our adhesive a try you really will "Love My Tapes"
So because we want you to see first hand how fabulous our products really are we're giving you a couple chances to wins some!
This week we are sponsoring Everything but the kitchen sink challenge blog. If you want to be entered to win a prize pack we're sponsoring click here for the details!

Or you can participate in our new weekly challenge Love Mondays. Each week I'll be posting a photo from the blog a Creative Mint. All you need to do is create a card based on what inspires you in the photo and post it on your blog and link your post back to us. Easy peasy right? You still have time to enter this week's challenge by clicking here.

Here's my take on this week's challenge.

I was inspired by the pink and green colors and the doily and Asian kitty to create this card.

So there you have it! A couple of fun ways for you to win free product from us! We can't wait to see what you create!

Cards for Kids & a Blog Hop by Lawn Fawn

Hello tape fans! This morning I'd like to share a fantastic cause called Cards for Kids. Cards for Kids was started by designer Jennifer McGuire who is a very talented and designs for Hero Arts stamps. Jen collects hand made cards for sick children and their families from whoever would like to create a card or cards and mail them into her. She is currently in her 3rd round of her Cards for Kids Drive. Here's a little bit from her recent Cards for Kids post:

"We are hoping to collect a ton of cards for THIRTEEN sick children and their families.  Cards of encouragement, love, cheer and hope.  We truly feel that cards can lift spirits.  And, in these rough times, it is an inexpensive way to make a difference in someone's life."
Click here for the list of 13 kids she is collecting cards for right now.

 So today Kelly from Lawn Fawn stamps has organized a great blog hop today called

Here's a card I created for the Blog Hop using our fabulous Love My Tapes adhesive

If you'd like to join the fun today and win some prizes here's a complete list of all the ladies who are participating today: Lawn Fawn will be your first stop and word is there are prizes being given away!!!

Lawn Fawn http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/

Meredith http://www.papercanteen.com/

Tiffany http://tiffguam.com/

Mandy http://www.limelightpapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Nichol http://www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/

Ayana http://www.ayanaposadas.typepad.com/

Brit http://artismysunshine.blogspot.com/

Christiana http://www.penciledwhimsies.blogspot.com/

Banu http://stampingwithpassion.blogspot.com/

Vera http://www.lingshappyplace.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/

Laurel http://www.laurelbeard.wordpress.com/

Kelly http://kellybertram.blogspot.com/

Jennifer http://hydrangeahippo.blogspot.com/

Scrapbook Royalty http://scrapbookroyalty.blogspot.com/

Tina http://www.travelingmama.net/

Beth http://www.stinkinsweetscrappin.blogspot.com/

Mary Dawn http://mypinkmexico.blogspot.com/

AnitaRex http://craftygrldesigns.blogspot.com/

Lucy http://hedgehogsandladybirds.blogspot.com/

Brenda http://www.sweetpapertreats.com/

Anthonette http://chavezdesigns.blogspot.com/

Tanis http://www.scrapcardsbytanis.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://www.canyoupixelthis.com/

Sudie http://www.unkit.com/

Bonnie Rose http://alifeunrehearsed2.blogspot.com/

Sarah Martina http://sarahmartina.com/blog

Michelle http://pagemasterdesignsonline.blogspot.com/

Jennie http://www.jenniekader.blogspot.com/

Jennifer http://jennifersland.blogspot.com/

Carly http://carlyrobertson.typepad.com/paper-in-bloom/

Joy http://dustypenny.blogspot.com/

Latrice http://www.latricemurphy.blogspot.com/

Lai-Yoke http://www.walchowdesign.blogspot.com/

Dana http://www.relivingtomorrow.blogspot.com/

Kazan nunutoolies.blogspot.com

Jana http://www.janamillen.typepad.com

Dawn http://dawnscrafts.blogspot.com/

Kristie http://www.thekristiesessions.blogspot.com/

Rhonda bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com

Donna http://www.3umbrellas.blogspot.com/

Jess basicjess.blogspot.com

Marilyn littlethingmemoryartist.blogspot.com

Shawnte http://shawnteparks.blogspot.com/

Mary Pat http://www.siehledwithakiss.blogspot.com/

Lynsey http://www.lynseyreadswritescreates.blogspot.com/

Ashley http://hearthugsdesigns.blogspot.com/

Libby http://stampinlibby.blogspot.com/

Sherri http://www.sherrithompson.blogspot.com/

Tami http://journeyoflifetamijo.blogspot.com/

Linda http://elendae.wordpress.com/

Lynnette http://nettersnotables.blogspot.com/

Kathy http://thedailymarker.blogspot.com/

Cindy http://cre8ivecindy.blogspot.com/

Deneen http://www.simplydeneen.typepad.com/

Heather http://www.scrapbookbakery.blogspot.com/

Jenn doublendesigns.blogspot.com

Tenia http://jazzypaper.blogspot.com/

Lori http://inkingaloud.blogspot.com/

Deb http://sideshowdeb.blogspot.com/

Angela http://makingmayhem.blogspot.com/

Stephanie http://stephaniecastrodesigns.blogspot.com/

Lynn http://www.themangoboysandme.blogspot.com/

Shemaine http://www.scraptasticdesigns.blogspot.com/

Latisha http://crafteebee.blogspot.com/

Deedee http://stampingsunshine.blogspot.com/

Kristina http://kristinaisonehappymama.blogspot.com/

Nicky http://craftcoffeecat-nicky.blogspot.com/

Leigh Ann http://www.stampingwithannieb.blogspot.com/

Gretchen http://gscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Erin http://www.homemadecardsbyerin.blogspot.com/

Laurie http://www.soapboxcreations.blogspot.com/

Beth http://www.runswithscraps.blogspot.com/

Michelle http://www.hotwheelsandglueguns.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://www.itsallaboutglitznglam.blogspot.com/

Clare http://bearydocardsinc.blogspot.com/

Carol http://www.lifecreativewithcarol.blogspot.com/

Grace http://gracehester.typepad.com/

Clouds http://cloudscolorgarden.blogspot.com/

Hannah http://sherbetblossom.blogspot.com/

Laurie http://lalybi.blogspot.com/

Terri http://terriearley.blogspot.com/

Jennifer jennifermcguireink.com

Lawn Fawn http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello Tape fans!! Today we've got a super quick and easy way to use our Fabric Sheets on your cards. Our fabric sheets aren't loaded in the store just yet but they will be in another week or so.  Here's a peek at some of our styles:

In the meantime you can check out this post for all the information you'll want to know about our newest product!

Now onto this week's tip!

Look how easy fabric sheets can be used as a background for your favorite card designs!

 I created this 6x6 card by simply cutting my cardstock 6x12 and folding it and then I cut a 6x6 piece of leopard print fabric sheet and peeling that backing off to apply directly onto my cardstock.

Then I printed my peace sign and sentiment onto the cardstock and trimmed it to 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 and used glue dots on foam pop dots to secure it to the front of my card. I added some i-rock bling from Imaginisce with my i-rock heat tool to bling out my peace symbol.

Here's a close-up so you can see the texture of the fabric sheet.

The possibilities really are endless with these fabric sheets. You can run them through your Spellbinder dies, Cuttlebug, Sizzix, Cricut, Slice...you name it.

We'll keep you posted on when the fabric sheets are available for order at our website lovemytapes.com

Fabric Tape Tutorial by Sarah Martina

Hello Tape Fans! We have a special treat for you today! The very talented Sarah Martina Parker has created a fabulous card tutorial for you with our Fabric Tapes!

Hey y’all! Sarah here, and I’m ready to get our hands dirty and try out this project using some of the finest fabric tape on the market by the one and only Love My Tapes! Let’s get right to it, shall we?

      Here are your materials:

• ·         A2 size card in cream card stock
• ·         4.25 x 5.5” piece of cream felt
• ·         Love My Tapes fabric tape
• ·         Label #9 Die shape
• ·         Cream Felt
• ·         Twine
• ·         CSS Sentiment Stamp
• ·         Fluid chalk ink
• ·         Decorative flower and ribbon
•  

This is the card that we will be making today. I have always loved window cards, so this fabric tape is just perfect for providing an interesting background to your window.

Trim the top and bottom edges of your felt piece using a scalloped rotary trimmer.

Use label-shaped die cut in center of piece of felt

Use the cut out shape of your felt to determine where you will need to place your decorative tape. Use a pencil or pen to mark down the size of the die cut shape to help you estimate.

Lay down 4-6 strips of decorative tape, one on top of the other, creating a super elegant and fun background. Be sure to remain in the area you marked off in Step 3.

Stamp sentiment onto felt using fluid chalk ink below the label-shaped cut out.

 Adhere stamped felt piece to card base using foam adhesive. This creates the “window” on the front of your card, featuring the lovely fabric tape.

Love Mondays

Hello tape fans! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! We kicked off our weekly challenge last Monday with an inspirational photo from the blog A Creative Mint. We've decided to do this each Monday to give our fans a chance to win some free product from us!  So every Monday we'll be posting a new photo for your to draw inspiration from. Here's this week's photo!

 

 Your challenge for this Monday should you choose to accept it is to create a card based on this  photo from A Creative Mint and post it on your blog and link back to this post here at Love My Tapes. You have until Thursday at midnight Pacific time to link up your photos to this post and Friday we'll feature all of your projects and choose 1 entry using Random.org to win a Love My Tapes prize pack.
We'd love for you to use your Love My Tapes Adhesive or fabric tapes but if you don't have any Love My Tapes products to use that's OK. If you do use our products make sure you mention that you did so you can get a 2nd entry into the drawing.

Last week's winners were Giovani and Christi Snow! This week it could be you!

Sound like fun? Now go get your scrap on!

Feature Friday

Hello Tape Fans! This week seemed to fly by and Friday is already here! Remember Monday I gave you a challenge to create a card based on an inspirational picture from the blog a Creative Mint. Well we had two girls play along and here are their cards

Christi Snow

Giovana

These cards are adorable! Thank you ladies for taking the time to create a project for our challenge! Since there were only two of you that entered this week's challenge you both win a prize pack of goodies from Love My Tapes!!!

Email me your addresses at lovemytapes@gmail.com by next Friday!

We'll be back Monday with a new challenge and we hope to have more of our fans play along!!!

Fabric tape makes a great embellishment for altered projects!

Hello Tape fans! We've got a special project to share today that was sent to us by Cristal "Pinky" Hobbs. Cristal is a very talented designer and it was great meeting her at the CHA Trade and Super Show.
Pinky designs for several manufacturer, teaches a variety of classes to all levels of scrapbookers. She also designs for a very special kit club, Scrapbooking from the Inside Out. They are a very special kit club and the focus of their kits is:
Scrapbooking your emotional life - using color, design, and journaling to create pages and projects that explore your inner world.

For Pinky's project she used our Sherbert fabric tape

with this beautiful mini album she created!

There are so many beautiful elements here. I love that she used the fabric tape as a border beneath her title.

Here's another peek at the second page. Just beautiful!!
For a look at the entire album please visit Pinky's blog Much Ado About Nothing

Fun with Fabric Tape

We found a great Fabric Tape video tutorial yesterday by Courtney Baker from Practicing Creativity! We love Courtney's video and her excitement about Fabric Tape!!!

I'm so excited that I got to meet Courtney at the Super Show in Chicago a few weeks ago and she was just as sweet as I imagined her. Courtney designs her own stamps and has an online store all while working full time too! I am amazed by her energy and creativity!

Here's a look at Courtney's Video

Thanks for sharing your creativity with us Courtney! For more inspiration from Courtney be sure and visit her design blog here. Don't forget to stop by her store Practicing Creativity Designs too! You'll love her beautiful stamp designs and more!!

Don't forget about Monday's challenge!! There is still time to get your project linked to this post. Click the link for all the deets!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! Since we returned from CHA I've been talking up our latest product, Fabric Sheets! They drew a lot of interest in Chicago at the trade show and fans have been emailing us asking questions about these fantastic new products.
So here's some info for our fans:

1. They are 8 1/2 X 11 in size
2. They are self adhesive so you do not have to run them thru a Xyron machine to make them sticky...Yay!
3. We have 38 different styles available
4. They will be available at Love My Tapes.com soon and are $6.00 per sheet plus shipping.
   
5. You can sew them with your sewing machine.
6. They are washable but I have not dried them in a dryer only laid flat to dry.
7. You can use most die cutting machine with them. I have cut them in my Sizzix, Cricut and Slice.
   

For this weeks Tuesday Tape Tip I used the Slice to create this card project with Paper from GCD Studios and Stamps from Unity Stamp Co.



I was able to cut the Fabric Sheets on my Slice with the back on and I tried peeling the backing off the Fabric Sheets and placing the fabric directly on the cutting surface. Both ways worked but without the backing on the Fabric Sheets you do have to use the Slice spatula to lift your die cuts off the glass.
Either way I got a clean cut very easily and the result is beautiful.




For more tips check out You Tube for Slice videos on cutting fabric. Because our Fabric sheets are self adhesive you don't have to bother with fusible webbing. Isn't that cool!

If you give our Fabric Sheets a try be sure and submit your projects for our Feature Friday post! Our email is lovemytapes@gmail.com

Love Mondays!

Hello Tape fans! I love Mondays! It's the fresh start of a new week that inspires me to love Mondays so much. I was thinking that since we love Monday's so much we should start the week off with a little creativity!
I've been following the blog A Creative Mint for sometime now and Leslie's photographs inspire me with all the variations of colors she uses and the way the items she photographs are arranged. I love that she is also a fan of tape {wink}


So your challenge for this Monday should you choose to accept it is to create a card based on this photo from A Creative Mint and post it on your blog and link back to this post here at Love My Tapes and Friday we'll feature all of your projects and choose 1 entry using Random.org to win a Love My Tapes prize pack.
We'd love for you to use your Love My Tapes Adhesive or fabric tapes but if you don't have any Love My Tapes products to use that's OK. If you do use our products make sure you mention that you did so you can get a 2nd entry into the drawing.
Sound like fun? Now go get your scrap on!

Feature Fridays...

Hey tape fans it's Friday and you know what that means....Feature Fridays!! It's a fun day each week on the blog that we're featuring you! This week we got a fabulous card in our inbox from Bonnie Sharp!

She purchased our lovely Lemon Bar fabric tape at the Super Show

And created this adorable card!

Bonnie used our yummy Lemon Bar gingham fabric tape to create this beautiful border on her card. Other supplies include paper from Cosmo Cricket and Stamped Sentiment from Paper Makeup Stamps.

Thank you Bonnie for sending us this adorable card and for purchasing our fabric tapes. We know you'll enjoy creating with them! Be sure and stop by Bonnie's blog The Lucky Clucker
and leave her some love there too!

If you'd like to be featured on Feature Fridays simply email us your artwork to our email address @ lovemytapes@gmail.com. Each week we'll feature the artwork we receive in our mailbox and a link to your blog. Here's the deets for your photo submissions

• Please make sure your photos are no larger than 500x500pixels and at least 72dpi. If you need help with resizing your photos, paint.net is a free program you can download to re-size your photos and so is Picnik.co,.
• Please make sure you submit crisp clean pictures. Use the macro setting on your camera for photographing your work in natural light when possible.

• Be creative, we love any and all projects using our double sided tape, fabric tapes and fabric sheets.

I can't wait to see what comes into our mailbox!

Fabric Sheets

Hello tape fans! I sneaked a peek at a new product we got just before the Trade show in Chicago.

Fabric Sheets!

Love My Tapes Fabric Sheets come in 38 different styles and retail for $6. per sheet. They are 8 1/2 X 11 in size and have adhesive on the back side so you don't have run them thru a Xyron machine. Love My Tapes Fabric Sheets are perfect for your favorite die cutting machine.
I've personally tried them out on the Cricut and Slice and they cut beautifully! They are perfect for covering mini albums, canvas aprons, bags and super cute for baby onesies!

Stay tuned for Tuesday Tape Tips with our newest product!