Top 5 Ways To Light Your Life With Washi Tape?

Washi tape has become popular in recent years. It is a low-tack tape that is mainly designed for scrapbooks. But now more and more people are addicted to upcycling old items with two or three washi tapes. Check out our top 5 inventive ways you can use washi tape in your crafts.

What’s washi tape?

Washi tape is a Japanese masking tape with multi-purposes in a great number of colors and patterns you can use in your scrapbooks, journals, artworks, cards, and so on. It is different from the ordinary tape(e.g. classical masking tape and painter tape) which is used to join two items together because of its low sticky. Therefore washi tape is mainly used for decorating drawings or items. 

What are the types of washi tape?

There is numerous washi tape sold on the market with different colors and images.

In addition to colors and images, washi tape manufacturers also launched many different types such as overlap washi tape, glowing in the dark washi tape, glitter golden washi tape, and so on.  

Single color washi tape

Single color washi tape has gradually lost its market as the most single color washi tape on the market are types of washi tape with a quilted figure, vertical stripe, or dots with a variety of colors. What’s more, more and more single-color washi tape are added with cute images as well as metallic or pearlescent finishes.

Glowing in the dark washi tape

As its names implies, it is a type of washi tape with special shiny finishes which allow it glow in the darkness. It would be the best option for wrapping your gifts, especially for kids. How time flies! Christmas is coming and exchanging gifts is an important tradition in most western countries. Perhaps you will have the demand for these types of washi tape.

Overlap washi tape

It is the most popular washi tape nowadays which has become the must-have for craft stash. Overlap washi tape consists of graphical stickers (usually the same image) which can be easily removed from each other without cutting by a knife. It is usually used to decorate arts or journals.

How to use washi tape?

There have a sea of videos and blogs introducing how to use washi tape to decorate and upcycle your old items. But we still want to add one as follows. 

To decorate your cards or envelopes

While there are a great number of cards and beautiful envelopes sold in shops, crafted cards or decorated envelopes will leave a deep impression on the receivers. You can make even a Christmas tree by placing strips of washi tape with increasing lengths in sequence on plain paper. By the way, washi tape is made by washi paper, a Japanese paper, historically handmade using mulberry, bamboo, or rice. Washi paper is as thin as a cicada's wings so it is easy to cut.

To form a calendar on your wall

A month has 30 days that can be divided into 4 weeks. We usually draw 8 vertical lines and 6 horizontal lines to build a month plan. It is easy to achieve this by pasting strips of washi tape on the wall. But keep in mind that you must leave sufficient room for writing a daily plan. Single color washi tape is the best choice for building a calendar on the wall because too many colors or images may make it look out of place on the wall. What’s more, due to its low sticky, it won't damage your wall.

To draw cute art on your wall

You can draw a creative figure on the wall with glowing in the darkness washi tape. It could not only decorate your bedroom but also disperse the darkness at night. But this would require a certain degree of drawing skill otherwise strange figures may let you have a nightmare.

To decorate your keyboard

Washi tape could help you separate vowels, consonants, and numbers and at the same, it could make your keyboard cuter as well as interesting since working is so boring. We should create some differences as well as surprise in our repeated life and work. Pasting washi tape on your daily office tools is a good and cost method. As we have mentioned, washi tape is a low-tack tape so you may reinforce these stickers with glues since the surface of the keyboard should contact your fingers hundreds of times. 

To wrap packages of candies

Making candies by ourselves is a healthy and interesting way but most people buy candy packages from the shops. As we all know, packages with vivid figures would be expensive than plain packages. In fact, we can decorate the plain packages with washi tape which can not only make it look more beautiful but also wrap the candy tighter. 

In conclusion

All of the types of washi tape we have mentioned above are sold on our website. In addition, we have wholesale custom gold washi tape, foil washi tape, stamp tape, transparent tape and die cut washi tape, and so on. We are a professional stationery manufacturer with over one hundred products. If you have any needs, please feel free to contact us.