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
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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