Love to Make
July 2015
Japanese washi tape is one of those products that Woman's Weekly Home Editor Emily just can't resist. Every time she goes into a craft store, she finds herself giving into temptation to buy several rolls. So many colours! So many patterns! This book contains a little something for everyone. The majority of projects in this book are great for beginners, many labelled Quick Starts, that can be copied from the photographs. Others have clear step-by-step instructions with photographs. Crafters will enjoy making these fun projects
Crafter's Choice
March 2015
Get stuck on washi tape! Author of Washi Style! Marisa Edghill dips into all things colourful and cute with all sorts of fun new ways for creating and decorating with the decorative paper tapes that are taking the craft world by storm. Expand your repertoire beyond the simple strip with creative techniques for layers, collages, pleats, and more interesting ways to use washi tape. More than 50 projects divided into chapters for Greetings, Gift Wrapping, Celebrations, Around the House, Get Organized, Playtime, and Trinkets are simple enough for beginners, and fun enough for everyone. Choose from projects for dressed-up tea lights, rosette ribbons, decorative envelopes, brooches and bangles and more.
Myshelf.com
December 2014
Washi tape is taking the craft world by storm, and inside this book are 101 ideas on how to use it. Find out what it can do (and what it cant in a very useful list of dos and donts) and how you can incorporate it into your craftwork. It isnt just for making cards and papercrafts; here you can see it used to decorate glassware, furniture and a cat box, made into jewellery and hair decorations, adorning party ware and scrapbooks as well as artwork. How did you manage without it?
There are some good instructions in here, written by somebody who has a talent for doing so. Simple projects have some very self explanatory pictures, more complex ones a short list of worded directions, while more demanding projects feature some illustrated staged instructions. I like knowing what I can and cannot do with the tape, and the bright modern style of the designs suits the projects. There is a wide range of things to make to suit many hobbies, many attractive photographs and lots of inspiring ideas. I admired the brevity of time needed for many impressive looking pieces, especially those lovely flowers, realistic feather earrings and the party masks. Simple and fun to make, this lovely book is sure to inspire crafters to grab some rolls of tape and get creating.
