It’s regularly $35 but until Sunday, September 15th it is just $30!

I had a drawerful of washi tapes that I rarely used. I was cleaning out my studio and I realized I bought them because I loved them but I wasn’t using them.  Why?  They weren’t exactly me so I decided to change that!

Now I am using that tape.  And I didn’t stop there.  I eyed the packing tape on my shelf.  I started upcycling it.  That led to the artist tape ( like a white masking tape).  And then this workshop, Transform Your Tape!

There’s a giveaway for a spot in this workshop!  Just leave a comment here before Sunday, Sept. 15th!  

In the videos I explain not only how to make these tapes but I’ll explain why I make the choices I make.  I will show you my entire process, including my Oops and how I handle them.  You’ll see when my tape hit that ugly stage and how that actually helped me turn that tape from the one I liked the least into my favorite of all time!

Clear packing tape will be turned into colorful works of art! You will work with patterned washi tape enhancing the pattern by adding layers of color and more pattern! Yes, more pattern!   You will take plain white tape and create rich colorful tape filled with images!  All in your favorite colors because you’ll be customizing it just the way you want it!

Who can do this?  Anyone! No prior skills are needed to get started! For all you experienced creatives, I will show you ways to use your existing supplies like you never imagined!

What you get:

• Over 2 hours of video
• 9 videos showing how to alter and customize 3 different kinds of tapes: washi, artist tape, and packing tape.
• A video with examples of how you can use your tapes in projects to spark your creativity
• Full color pdf with instructions and photos for you to download
• 1 supply video that goes into detail about the supplies but you probably already have many or all of the supplies.
• The classroom will be open at least a year (which means Sept. of 2014)

It’s regularly $35 but until Sunday, September 15th it is just $30!

Register for class here!

The workshop goes live on Monday, Sept. 16th.  From that day on you will have immediate access to all the videos to watch at your leisure!  The workshop will be open for at least a year!

Supplies

The supplies needed for the entire workshop are listed below.  I encourage you to use what you have before buying!  Feel free to substitute items on my list with things you have or that you want to experiment with on your tape!

•  Craft Sheet (I use Rangers but any good teflon sheet will work)
• Artist Tape or Masking Tape
• Washi Tapes
• Clear packing tape
•  Acrylic Inks (I used F and W both pearlescent and traditional)
• Rubber Stamps
• Permanent Ink Pad ( I used Ranger’s Archival Ink Pad)
• Acrylic paint and brushes
• Rubber stamps
• Stazon permanent inkpad (I use a re-inker and Ranger’s Cut and Dry foam)
• Rubbing alcohol
• Tacky glue
• Wax Paper
• Copic Markers (or any alcohol based marker) in your favorite colors and a Copic blending pen.
• Colored and patterned papers (I used purchased scrapbooking paper and papers I printed with the Gelli Plate)
• Printed papers such as book text, your kid’s old homework papers, handwritten text
• Glitter glue (some brands work better than others- Stickles brand has worked well for me but it does vary based on the brand of washi tape)
• Sequins
• Glitter
• Embossing powder
• Glossy Accents
• Xyron machine with an adhesive cartridge that you can run a strip of packing tape through or sheets of double sided adhesive
•  Stencils (I used stencils from StencilGirl Products)
• Stitch A Greek Medallion
• Damask Medium
• Houses
• Eye Lattice
• Layered Salad
• Stitch a Greek Border
• Stitch a Doily 

When I saw Pam Carriker’s designs for Stencil Club I fell in love.  Not with Pam, I’m already in love with her work, with Frida!  I must confess I hadn’t really understood all the buzz about Frida until I had a chance to play with her.

I do so love that every month a new package arrives filled with stencils but this month I got an unexpected bonus.  I got to know an amazing woman.

Did a bit of reading on this fascinating woman before I starting arting.  She was strong, having overcome tragedy and using her tragedies in her art.

As I read about her life and her adventures, all I could think was how I would love to have seen a reality TV show starring her.

There is so much to explore about Frida, I am just getting started with this quick art journal page!  

Black paint on the stencil and a quick smearing of orange paint around her.  These were easy lines to work around and I still managed to get paint on her face.  Oops.  Now my art journal page is imperfect.  Perfect!

Stenciled in some of the flowers around her.

More pink around her.  The smears around her face really jumped out at me so  I covered them with a touch of white paint.  But then I realized- this is an art journal.  This is not going to be hanging in the Louvre any time soon. Out I kicked that pesky perfectionist!

In so many of her photos and self portraits she had colorful flowers in her hair.  So I wanted flowers in her hair. But the bold background made it tough for me to get the stencil to stand out…so tape to the rescue!

I tried to type the directions for making this flower.  After 3 paragraphs of awkward directions I realized, MAKE A VIDEO!  So here it is- a quick one showing how to make a tape flower.

You can watch Making a Flower Out of Tape on YouTube here.

You can learn more about my Transform Your Tape workshop here.   This workshop is filled with techniques to alter and transform washi tape, packing tape, and artist tape.

There’s a giveaway happening here!

And here she is with flowers in her hair. Thanks Pam for introducing me to Frida! Now I understand all the excitement about her!

Linking up to Make It Monday, Mandarin Orange Monday, Inspire, Inspire Me Monday, Creative Every Day, and Glue it Tuesday.

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