Hello again. Long time no see! Life… you know : )
Zoo found something on line about making boxes, frames and
tags with metal tape. Ironically, this was at the same time that my husband and
I were doing renovations and were using this product. Needless to say, I was intrigued
to find a use for the tape that didn’t involve long days of ripping a building
apart and months of rebuilding it.
The links she originally sent were as follows:
We decided to experiment during one of our Skype craft
sessions and began by rummaging through our supplies to see what variety of
things we could try under the tape. I
found: metal and paper die cuts; sequence shapes; punches; chip board
buttons; a button; a pink felt heart; bead string; raised red stars; and a
wooden oval with the letter T cut out of it. I tried different numbers of
layers to see how the tape would cover each thickness (I wrote the number of
layers beside the objects glued to the page).
When it came time to paint over the tape I used Crafters
Acrylic paints purchased at Dollarama. I tried three colours per page and
discovered that I prefer just plain boring black. The other colours I found just
looked odd.
Lessons I learned in this experiment were that: different
size and shape pieces of tape gives the paint more places to sit to show off the object;
tears in the tape going over the beads and wood objects can be hidden when painted; even
one layer of paper shows up through the tape, so it is not always necessary to
layer objects to be seen; and adding
details with pens or other tools is fun and adds personal touches.
Have fun! Red Bear : )
