Fabric tape designs by Sarah Martina

Hello tape fans, we have a treat today! Sarah Martina is stopping by to show us some of her beautiful cards with our fabric tapes!

Sarah is a very talented designer. You can find a special article featuring her in the current issue of Cards magazine and she's also a Top 5 finalist for Papercraft's Gallery Idol.

Here's a peek at some of her beautiful artwork featuring our fabric tapes and adhesive.

I love how Sarah pleated the tape here on the bottom of her layout.

We absolutely love Sarah's work with our products and always look forward to what she creates next. Stop by Sarah's blog to see more of her amazing work!

Feature Friday

Hello tape fans! Today it's Feature Friday and that means it's all about you! This week we got a very yummy project in the Love My Tapes in box from Toni Kwaiser!



Tony created this fabric flower with our Madison fabric tape and she our double sided adhesive. She also used Unity stamps for her project. We love the colors Toni choose for this project.
With fabric tape, flowers are fun and easy! Right now in the Love My Tapes store we have also have 12 packs of our adhesive for $30!! That's only $2.50 per unit.

And speaking of our adhesive

Our designer Shemaine Smith used our double sided adhesive to hold these ribbon folds in place on her ribbon rainbow for the Papercraft's Gallery Idol competition. To create this rainbow she cut strips of ribbon and folded them with a glue dot and then ran a strip of adhesive on the rainbow template and carefully pressed each ribbon onto the cardstock. Our adhesive really does hold ribbon well!

We'd like to thank Toni for sending in her project for our Feature Friday. Be sure and visit Toni's blog Kool n Krafty Mom for more inspiration!

If you'd like to be featured on Feature Fridays simply email us your artwork to our email address @ lovemytapes@gmail.com. Each week we'll feature the artwork we receive in our mailbox and a link to your blog. Here's the deets for your photo submissions

• Please make sure your photos are no larger than 500x500pixels and at least 72dpi. If you need help with resizing your photos, paint.net is a free program you can download to re-size your photos.
• Please make sure you submit crisp clean pictures. Use the macro setting on your camera for photographing your work in natural light when possible.

• Be creative, we love any and all projects using our double sided tape and masking tapes.

I can't wait to see what comes into our mailbox!

Fun with Fabric Tapes

Hello tape fans! Fabric tapes are fun to use on cards and projects. They are easy to apply and create with. What I like most about fabric tapes is that they are easy to do ribbon pleats with. Most ribbon pleating I have seen on cards has to have staples to hold the pleats into place but with the fabric tape it's easy to create pleats that hold themselves due to the adhesive on the back of the fabric design.

For this card I used our Peppermint fabric tape

You can find this style in the Love My Tapes store here.

Designer Spotlight Wednesday

Hello tape fans! It's Designer Spotlight Wednesday and today we're shining our spotlight on another talented My Little Shoebox Design Team Member...

Erin Payne!!



Here's a little about Erin:

Erin Payne loves to scrapbook, and she has been since she can remember. When she was young she started collecting smelly stickers, and hasn't stopped since. She has been on the MLS design team for almost a year, and has a hoot making videos for them. If you search on you tube, input the MLS chicchat channel, and you will find her and Heather's crazy scrapbooking videos! Please visit her blog to hear more nutty ramblings, and too peek at some eye candy. She loves designing for My Little Shoebox, and also hosts crops and getaways, and teaches classes, in her hometown with their scrapbook group call the "Best Betties Scrapbooking". They can be found on facebook.

Here's some of Erin's designs for My Little Shoebox using Love My Tapes adhesive

This gift card holder and card are adorable, love the birdie

I love this altered Punky Sprouts notebook album!

And the 3D elements in this layout

We love Erin's artwork work and her style, check out more of her designs at her blog Best Betties.

We're excited to be sponsoring the My Little Shoebox Design Team. Check back each week as we feature a different designer and their crafty creations.

Paper piecing with Love My Tapes adhesive

Hello tape fans! Using our double sided adhesive to create layouts is easy and the results are always perfect. Our double sided adhesive glides on your cardstock with a full strip of glue every time and is very strong. Not only does it hold cardstock well but our adhesive also holds ribbon, glitter and flock beautifully. This layout was created with our double sided adhesive and the birds were created using small pieces of scraps for the body, tail and wings.

The feet are ribbon scraps also adhered with our double sided adhesive

You can order your Love My Tapes double sided adhesive from our store here. Also look for us at Summer CHA in Chicago July 27th-29th.

Feature Friday & Happy Father's Day Dads!

As we mentioned last week, our very own designer and social media director Shemaine Smith is participating in Papercraft's Gallery Idol competition and created this Father's Day card for last week's competition using Love My Tapes double sided adhesive.

Supplies: Be A Man collection (Creative Imaginations); Sprocket gears (Tim Holtz Ideology) ; Faux Eyelets (Craft Essentials);Metal Sheets (Making Memories); Large Classic Inverted Scallop Circles (Spellbinders Nestabilities) ; Vinyl Thickers (America Crafts); Pop Dots (All Night Media); Adhesive (Love My Tapes)


If you'd like to be featured on Feature Fridays simply email us your artwork to our email address @ lovemytapes@gmail.com. Each week we'll feature the artwork we receive in our mailbox and a link to your blog. Here's the deets for your photo submissions

• Please make sure your photos are no larger than 500x500pixels and at least 72dpi. If you need help with resizing your photos, paint.net is a free program you can download to re-size your photos.
• Please make sure you submit crisp clean pictures. Use the macro setting on your camera for photographing your work in natural light when possible.

• Be creative, we love any and all projects using our double sided tape and masking tapes.

I can't wait to see what comes into our mailbox!

All of us at Love My Tapes would like to wish all the Dad's of our tape fans and our very own Love My Tapes Dads a very special Father's Day Weekend!

Paper Secrets + Love My Tapes

Hi tape fans! We are excited to be sponsoring the adhesive included in the monthly prize kit at Paper Secrets. Paper Secrets is a crafting community ran by Kristi Beisel. It's a fun community of paper crafters with great challenges, discussions and of course a monthly prize drawing for your participation.

Here's June's color challenge

We created a card for the color challenge using My Little Yellow Bicycle papers from the Fresh Print Clothesline collection and our
Blackstone fabric tape.
Join us at Paper Secrets for more challenges and your chance to win this month's prize pack!

Designer Spotlight Wednesday

Hello tape fans! It's Designer Spotlight Wednesday and today we're shining our spotlight on another talented My Little Shoebox Design Team Member...

Pattie Beltran

Here's a little about Pattie:

Hi! My name is Pattie Beltran and I'm thrilled to be a part of My Little Shoebox and one of the DT coordinators. I love working with My Little Shoebox! The colors are bright, the patterns are cheerful, and the embellsihments are so cute and user friendly!
I am the wife of a wonderful man who encourages me in all things, and "enables" me in my hobby. I'm also the mom to two fantastic children who brighten my life. I've been crafting all of my life and scrapbooking for 12 years now. I love all things paper (I'm kind of addicted- anyone else out there like me? hee hee), and love bling, ribbon, lace, and flowers. I teach at my lss and love every minute of it!

Here are some of Pattie's fantastic projects with Love My Tapes Adhesive and My Little Shoebox!

What a happy card and cute little bird!

Love the way Pattie folded the paper on this layout

This altered birdhouse is just darling. The paper flowers are beautiful.

We love Pattie's unique style and designs! Be sure and visit Pattie's blog for more amazing inspiration!

We're excited to be sponsoring the My Little Shoebox Design Team. We'd like to extend our congratulations to the new team announced on the Love My Tapes blog here. Check back each week as we feature a different designer and their crafty creations.

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! Today's Tuesday Tape tip is all about decor. In my studio I like to collect little jars to keep buttons and smaller embellishments in. I picked up some really inexpensive small jars at Michaels {they were a buck to be exact} and I keep my Making Memories buttons in them. I thought the fabric tapes would be a fun way to jazz them up a bit so I wrapped some of our Jane and Penny around each one. I then added two Prima flowers layered and finished them off with one of the buttons in each jar.



Now I can just quickly look at the jar and know they hold that color buttons on the center of the flowers. Super easy!

I used the following two styles of our fabric tape for my project.

Penny

Jane

You can find these styles and many other of our fabric tapes in the Love My Tapes store!

Fun with Fabric Tapes

Hello tape fans! We've been getting many orders in the Love My Tapes Store for our new fabric tapes so we'll do our best to show you fun ways to use them on your craft projects. Our fabric tapes are easy to work with and creating ruffles with your fabric tapes is fun and easy!

Here's a fun card created with this "ruffling" technique


Supplies: Patterned paper American Crafts Dear Lizzy, Martha Stewart border punch, tags. Hero Arts pearls, Provo Craft embossing folder, stamped images Hero Arts & Unity Stamp Company and Love My Tapes Lemon bar fabric tape

We'd love to see your "ruffles" so be sure and send us your artwork for our Feature Friday's post. To find out more about Feature Friday click here.

Ippity+ Love My Tapes

Hey tape fans! Have you heard?



We are very excited to have teamed up with Unity Stamp Co. to bring Ippity customers the opportunity to order Love My Tapes Adhesives with their Ippity orders. Nothing is more perfect than Ippity's fabulous exclusive stamp sets, patterned paper and Love My Tapes adhesives arriving at your door so that you can open your package and immediately get started creating your projects.

What's Ippity you ask?

Ippity is a FRESH, NEW, TRENDY, FUN way to enjoy a discount on high quality stamps and crafting products. Ippity also offers women the opportunity to make some money by sharing their ippity products with others at retreats, stamping and scrapbooking events, church events, creative get-togethers, and fundraisers.

For more information on how you can sign up to sell Ippity visit the link here


Here's a look at some of Ippity's stamps

IPK-102 Simply Home




These rubber cling stamps are deeply etched and easily cling to your Acrylic stamping blocks

IPK-100 Because of You

If you'd like to order Ippity click the link here to find an Ippity consultant in your area and make sure to ask for Love My Tapes adhesives when you order!

Designer Spotlight Wednesday

Hello tape fans! It's Designer Spotlight Wednesday and today we're shining our spotlight on another talented My Little Shoebox Design Team Member...

Bethany Kartchner!

Here's a little about Bethany:

Bethany Kartchner is a published mixed-media and scrapbooking artist. Her work has appeared in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbook Trends, PaperCraft, Somerset Memories, Somerset Studio, GreenCraft and Art Quilting Studio. She currently designs for My Little Shoebox, Shimmerz Paints and The Scrap Review. She is married to a sweet man and together they have 5 beautiful children. She has a special weakness for hot chocolate, Holly Hobby, vintage lace and flowers. You can get to know Bethany better and find out her teaching schedule via her blog: www.CreativeRuminations.blogspot.com

Here are some of Bethany's fantastic projects with Love My Tapes Adhesive and My Little Shoebox!


Love this distressed look

Beautiful use of Shimmerz


Bethany has an incredible talent for doodling on her layouts and projects! It's a talent that sets her layouts apart from many other published designers

We love Bethany's unique style and designs! Be sure and visit Bethany's blog for more amazing inspiration! Right now she has the most amazing mixed media project posted so be sure and stop by!

We're excited to be sponsoring the My Little Shoebox Design Team. Check back each week as we feature a different designer and their crafty creations.

Tuesday Tape Tip

Hello tape fans! We are thrilled at the response we've gotten to our fabric tape and all of your orders. We appreciate your business and look forward to meeting your fabric tape and adhesive needs.
Now onto this week's Tuesday Tape Tip!!
Banners are a big trend in card making and scrapbooking right now so we decided to create one using our new fabric tapes. You can easily create banners like this one featuring paper from Pebbles Inc new Tree house line by cutting out your pattern cardstock in your desired banner shape and then laying them in a straight line on your crafting table. The place half of the width of the fabric tape over the top of the banner and lift the banner off your table and simply fold the other side to the back of your banner and Voila!



For added detail to this banner we used some buttons and Waxy Flax by Close To My Heart. After tying the buttons in between the flags of our banner we simply twisted the Waxy Flax around our paper piercer to create the coiled look.

We'd love to see your banners created with our tapes! Send your crafty project images to lovemytapes@gmail.com and you might see your work here on our Feature Friday post!

We'd also like to Congratulate the Moxie Fab winners posted today at the Moxie Fab Blog! We can't wait to see what you create with your Moxie Fab Love My Tapes Prize!!!

We are pleased to share...

That our Social Media Director and Designer Shemaine Smith has made the Top 20 for Papercraft Magazine's Gallery Idol contest! Come support her by voting for your favorite entry. Each person only gets one vote.

Feature Friday

It's Feature Friday featuring designs with our tapes by you! It's been a busy week here with all the buzz about our Fabric Tapes and for those of you tape fans that placed orders we'd love to see what you create so be sure and send us your work and we'll Feature you here on Fridays!

Here's some beautiful work we received for this week's Feature Friday

Patricia Thorpe
from One Little Spark

a detailed view of her stamped image on the masking tapes. Isn't it fab that you can heat emboss on our masking tapes!

Patricia Thorpe
from One Little Spark

And Nora Ann was inspired by yesterday's fabric tape flower post and created one of her own

Here's a close-up....just stunning!

If you'd like to be featured on Feature Fridays simply email us your artwork to our email address @ lovemytapes@gmail.com. Each week we'll feature the artwork we receive in our mailbox and a link to your blog. Here's the deets for your photo submissions

• Please make sure your photos are no larger than 500x500 pixels and at least 72 dpi. If you need help with resizing your photos, paint.net is a free program you can download to re-size your photos.
• Please make sure you submit crisp clean pictures. Use the macro setting on your camera for photographing your work in natural light when possible.

• Be creative, we love any and all projects using our double sided tape and masking tapes.

I can't wait to see what comes into our mailbox!

Oh! And there is still time for your chance to win a huge giveaway of our fantastic fabric and masking tapes over at the Moxie Fab World blog. Click here for all the deets!!

Fabric Tape Flower

Hello tape fans! The response to our new fabric tapes has been huge. We're excited that you love these new additions. The Love My Tapes store is stocked with all the fantastic styles we featured on the Facebook fan page and as a bonus any fabric tape order gets a free package of our double sided adhesive!

Creating with fabric tapes is fun and easy. There are so many possibilities for these trendy accents. Here's a fun and easy flower embellishment you can create for your scrapbook page or card

Supplies: Love My Tapes Lemon Bar fabric tape, My Little Shoebox patterned paper, Love Tapes Adhesive, Martha Stewart border punch, misc buttons

Here's a detailed view if the flower. To create your own flower, cut a circle from card stock and create pleats with the fabric tape around the outside of the circle ending in the center.

We hope you'll try this fun technique and submit your projects for out Feature Friday post. To learn more click here.

Designer Spotlight Wednesday

Hello tape fans! It's Designer Spotlight Wednesday and today we're shining our spotlight on another talented My Little Shoebox Design Team Member...

Tanisha Long

Here's a little bit about this talented designer:

I am Tanisha Long, a Research Technologist turned stay-at-home mom, a scrapbook artist/educator, and amateur photographer. I have been in the paper crafting industry for 6 years. In that time I have served as a member of several design teams, taught at my local scrapbook store, and have been published in several scrapbooking magazines and books, including: Creating Keepsakes, Making Memories, BHG Scrapbooks Etc., Paper Trends, Paper Crafts, Blue Media Idea Books, and Somerset Memories. I live in New Jersey with my husband and our 2 incredibly adorable sons. Please feel free to stop by my blog and check out more of my artwork and daily life events

Here's some beautiful projects Tanisha created with My Little Shoebox and Love My Tapes adhesive

Loving the butterflies! See this post at Tanisha's blog for more info on how she created this beautiful layout.

And this little house...adorable!

We love Tanisha's style and designs! Be sure and visit Tanisha's blog for more amazing inspiration!

We're excited to be sponsoring the My Little Shoebox Design Team. Check back each week as we feature a different designer and their crafty creations.