Windy Robinson
Hello everyone! So let’s talk duct tape today.
Now that I’m doing my back-to-school shopping, it seems like everywhere I go there is a vast array of colored and patterned duct tape. Have you noticed it?
If you have a teenager at home, you may already be the proud owner of several rolls of this brightly colored or patterned tape. It’s fun to see kids crafting away! Most of the girls in our neighborhood are sporting duct tape in anything from hair accessories to cell phone cases. And it’s all hand made, which is totally cool!
Have you tried crafting with duct tape? With two daughters at home I couldn’t resist buying a couple of rolls the first time I spotted it at the grocery store and they encouraged me to put it to good use on this notepad that I created for Practical Solutions for Card Makers.
My Story Notebook by Windy Robinson on p. 47
Playing with duct tape is actually a lot of fun and much easier than I imagined.
Want to see how easy it is to create one of these flowers?
1. Start with a piece of duct tape that measures anywhere from 1 1/2’ to about 3’ long. Fold it over so that 1/3 of the sticky adhesive is showing along the bottom of the tape.
2. Then pinch and pleat along the tape. (As you go along, you will notice that your flower is spiraling along).
3. To create your flower, simply start at the top and roll your flower along, using the exposed tape to adhere your flower together.
4. Finish it off with a drop of hot glue at its base to ensure that it does not unravel.
Being that the start of school is right around the corner, I decided to add these flowers to a few more notebooks to use as gifts for my daughters’ new teachers.
Warning: making these flowers can be addicting.
So are you ready to try your hand at duct tape flowers? Leave a comment here and I’ll select one winner to receive a set of my favorite colors of duct tape by Duck Tape ® brand duct tape.
Comment below by Friday, July 6th at 5 pm MDT for your chance to win it!
Take care!
Windy Robinson, Paper Crafts Go-to Gal
Niiiice, I reALLY like this technique! Love duct tape.
Super cute! Didn’t realize duct tape could be so colorful!
LOVE these flowers sooo much; they are all just gorgeous.
We have 2 daughters, but only our youngest (age 14) is in to duct tape…HOW IN TO DUCT TAPE MIGHT SHE BE? Oh yes, I’m sure you want to know…
We are the proud owners of 34 rolls of duct tape – yes, 34!!! AND last year she and her best friend made their ENTIRE Halloween costumes from duct tape – yep; sure did; we have great pictures to prove it.
AND our daughter covered a pair of boots in duct tape to match the dress!!!
Can’t wait to give these a try!
Wow!! I can’t believe these flowers were made from duct tape….how cool is that?!?!! I didn’t even know duct tape came in all these different colors. I would LOVE to play with these rolls of duct tape to add into my own projects!!
LOVE these flowers sooo much; they are all just gorgeous, I’ll have to give them a try.
We have 2 daughters, but only our youngest (age 14) is in to duct tape…HOW IN TO DUCT TAPE MIGHT SHE BE? Oh yes, I’m sure you want to know…
We are the proud owners of 34 rolls of duct tape – yes, 34!!! AND last year she and her best friend made their ENTIRE Halloween costumes from duct tape – yep; sure did; we have great pictures to prove it.
AND our daughter covered a pair of boots in duct tape to match the dress!!!
Can’t wait to give these a try!
Love your flower idea and the covered journal idea. Thanks for showing us how you made them as well. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
What beautiful flowers you made! Such a clever girl you are.
So cute. I think I can actually do this. Thanks for the tutorial.
Hey everyone!
Please check out our line of Platypus Designer Duct Tape. The patterns are all seamless to make aligning easy. The designs are more sophisticated, transcending typical duct tape uses, and the matte finish is very smooth and doesn’t look like regular duct tape.
So glad I stumbled across this page!
Wow I had no idea you could do that with duct tape!
What lovely little flowers!! Thanks for the great tutorial……now off to raid hubbys garage for some duct tape………..
Who knew duct tape could become so pretty?
Cute flowers
I am so thrilled to see this technique tutorial. My daughter and her girlfriends are wanting to “play” with tape! The flowers turned out beautiful and it does look a lot easier than I would have thought since you shared your tips. I can see the addiction settling in comfortably in my crafty life! LOL
OH. MY. GOODNESS. These are simply beautiful! Thanks for sharing and teaching us this technique!
Love this… I noticed my son had some camo duct tape… hummm got me wondering how a flower would look and what else I can make with it!
Thank you so much for this great idea. I had a lot of duck tape left and now I know what to make with the rest of it. Again, thank you.
I love your flowers……I’m leaving today to visit my grandchildren…….this will be a perfect back-to-school project for us to do together! Thanks, Bobbie
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Hi Windy
I just found this tutorial and I was wondering how (if) you covered the inside cover pages as well and if so, how did you cover them?
I don’t like the not so pretty insides and need to cover them up also.
Thanks for your response and I love all your cards and posts.
Mercy
Can’t wait to start playing with my husbands duct tape, shhh don’t tell him. At least until I can get some. They are so pretty, it’s amazing What you can do with duct tape, my daughter made a wallet with some, it turned out real cute. Thanks for posting the instructions.
thank you for the tutorial. like michele above, my daughter has been into duct tape crafts for several years. Last year she made 6 dozen long stem roses for the “mothers” in her life. she has also made wallets for herself and several others.
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