Creating with Love My Tapes adhesive

Create your cards with Love My Tapes Adhesive 

Super strong double sided Love My Tapes Adhesive is perfect for your crafting projects

Disposable and Refillable options available at www.lovemytapes.com

*Love My Tapes* Sightings

Hello Tape Fans! I am always browsing the net for our fans blogs and artwork posts. I love finding people who love our products and spotlighting them here on our blog.
I happen to spot these fabulous fabric flowers at Beth Johnson's blog

These flowers are absolutely stunning! I love that she used the doilies that we featured in yesterday's Tape Tip (which you can purchase at Michaels or most online stores that carry Martha Stewart products)

I love this adorable hand made gift box she created with one of her beautiful flowers. Felt is so versatile and fun to use and I am all about layering!

Here's another look at the gift box. Beth used our lemon bar fabric tape to embellish her box.

I love finding your work with Love My Tapes products so please post your work to our Facebook Fan Page or drop a comment in the Chatbox on the right side of the blog so I can be sure and see what you are creating!

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello Tape Fans! I hope you had a fantastic holiday weekend! It's Tuesday and we have a quick and fun tape tip for creating a handmade border for your scrapbook pages or cards! I love these Martha Stewart doilies and our Jane fabric tape  is perfect for creating a fun banner using these.

Choose any doily you fancy and cut it in half with a paper trimmer

Then lay them in a row so you can cover the top of each doily with tape

Then the tape over the back and it will hold the doilies like this

You can leave it just the way it's shown above or you can take your sewing machine and add a stitch

I also created a smaller banner for a card and added some buttons

These banners are fun and easy to create. I hope you'll create a banner using our fabric tapes and link it to this post so I can stop by and see your creation! Thanks for stopping by today!!

Feature Friday

Hello tape fans. Just a quick post to let you know we're extending our Love Monday's challenge another week! Here's a look at the fabulous entries so far:

Donelda

Monika

Agata

Isha

Giovanna

Please visit these ladies blogs and leave them some support for their beautiful creations.
To find out how you can create with us for this challenge click here! We look forward to more entries into our challenge

Cutting Fabric Sheets with your Cricut

Hey tape fans! We're cutting our Fabric Sheets with Cricut today! First they will cut with a reg blade or deep edge blade set at max for speed and pressure. I recommend cutting the same image over again and all you do is unload and reload and it will cut again in the same spot.

 Load you fabric sheet fabric face down and smooth on really well to your Cricut mat. If you have the original cricut then cut the fabric to fit the 6X12 mat. I have found when choosing images do not choose ones with detailed cuts. Keep it simple like this bird house from the Cindy Lou cart.

 

 Again set your speed to max and pressure to max and choose what size you want to cut. For this project I cut mine at 5 inches. Then push cut and when it's done peel back fabric sheet.

Punch out the holes.

Now cut the same size image on matching cardstock and use the shadow function so you can layer the fabric sheet over the solid card stock die.

Now just peel off the back of your fabric sheet and layer over the cardstock and you're ready to add it to a gift bag, scrapbook page or card!!!

 There's still time for you to enter our weekly challenge Love Mondays. Click here for more info!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Fabric Tape projects from our Facebook Fans

Hello Tape fans! We've been seeing more of our fans loading their projects on our Facebook Fan page and we love it! Here's a couple of beauties I spied today

Jennifer Smith Sloane

Crystal "Pinky" Hobbs

Beautiful work with our yummy gingham fabric tapes!!

So Tape Fans, load up your creations to our Facebook Fan page and you could be spotted next!!

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