Decorating with washi tape

Scotch for decorating

We have already said long ago how to use tape for decorating your home, but today I will talk about a particular product, washi tape, a decorative schotch, which is becoming very popular in Italy. Is increasingly being used,for decorating and for original low cost decor.

The highlight of this product is the ability to reposition and the wide range of colors, which allows a variety of applications in different fields. Some people use it to realize greeting cards, gift packages for those DIY but effective for those who still do scrapbooking.

My first encounter with the washi tape I had several years ago at school, when I came across the tape and fluorescent translucent to use when highlighting or writing their names on colored pencils.

There is much, at least abroad, where it is sold separately in kit color, in shops specializing in crafts and decorations for a few euro.

The washi tape, however, is not only a scotch colored; becomes an excellent trick, inter alia fun, to decorate low cost objects and domestic environments. For example for decorating pots, or even square. Or again as valid frames modern alternatives .

Features Washi tape

The Washi Tape is a kind of adhesive tape of removable type, of Japanese origin, which is made with different types of paper. The name refers to the Japanese tradition: Wa, in fact, means Japanese and shi meaning paper.

The most paper used for the production of Washi tape is that of rice, which gives the adhesive tape also semitransparent that aspect, which is not only interesting, it greatly simplifies the use. Washi tape The fact is repositionable and removable several times, as long as the paper used remains intact.

Shop online Washi Tape

But this decorative scotch can really be used in many different fields. Just take a look on the web to find out how, behind a product so simple, in fact there are numerous online shops, specialized and ready to suggest some use of creative and imaginative.

For example, Mywashitape, is a site, with its blog full of ideas and ideas, created by an Argentinean girl, transplanted to Rome, that he decided to share and make available to all its passion for washi tape, thanks a small online store, enjoy kit of adhesive tapes, various colors and patterns, by type, from basic set up to those themes, such as Christmas.

But the world of washi tape is really great and they are many sites that specialize on the sale of this product, not only in Italy. It is the case of tape Cute, specializing in the sale of its decorative scotch. Here you can find everything. Washi tape from the theme to the floral, polka dots up to versions, or effect like macramè. Products not only from Japan, but a collection of tapes from all over the world, aimed at decoration, paper or domestic.

Among my favorites, definitely the starter kit, in various sizes and patterns, composed of several rolls of adhesive with mixed patterns, for those who just can not decide and take them all at once, made by the Japanese mt masking tape, leader in the field of washi tape.
Even here, however you can find inside the deco blog, several usage examples and some really cute idea to use tapes, even at home.

Applications and creative use of washi tape

Washi tape is also known by the name of masking tape, from the wide use made of it also in the graphic, to decorate tickets, envelopes and paper in general.

Its translucency allows an application to the edges that, in some cases, such as with adhesive tapes decorated with motifs that are repeated, eventually leave a product well decorated and finished, thanks to the adhesive side.

The washi tape can be used but also on glass, for example decorating even glasses at a party, clothes, tablecloths or napkins. Fits perfectly for vases, perhaps choosing their colors match well also to the flowers or the plant inserted, or it wanted simply mixed with the application of multiple patterns, to create some nice squares for the house.

Also interesting are the unusual and extreme applications, all to copy. As the trophy super ecological proposed by Stylizimo some time ago, or the nice murals, all made ??with masking tape in various sizes and patterns, created by a Dutch mother on the walls of the chamber of her child.

The use of washi tape to the wall, however, is on the rise, why not decorate a wall effect tromp l'oeil 2.0, by simply drawing with black tape, the outline of a window.

Nice also the lamp cardboard, the Australian Tamara Maynes. specializes in products and crafts all homemade, realized using various parts of cardboard, thanks to only use, also double, of washi tape of different colors.

But the washi tape can also become a valuable ally to make the most beautiful and personal all those containers which have in the closet for cram clothes & Co., or to create targhettine customized for their shoe boxes.

And coming of the Christmas holidays, the washi tape is an excellent resource for packaging in a manner quite different from their gifts, perhaps, why not, also coordinating the cards with the same pattern matching or contrasting.

Or to be used, in the event of festivals or peri numerous smaller, to decorate cutlery wood or plastic, glasses, bottles for beverages or just for the serving dishes.

But among the most original use, simple and safe due to the washi tape, the frame DIY is one of the best. A good trick to hang pictures on the wall, without the heaviness of frames or even useful to create a personal gallery of drawings and small works of art for your little ones, to be changed at will.

But maybe they're right the Funky Mamas ... washi tape is like gray: look good with everything.