Monday, September 10, 2012

Designing and printing washi tape with your Cameo

Wow, two posts in one day.  It is busy and exciting around here this morning.  Last night as I was winding down I was looking at my butterfly washi tape and although I liked it, I felt it was sort of washed out and wondered how I could get it crisper.  Then I wondered if the Cameo with the pen holder would work, so I got up, fired up the computer and Cameo again and played, I am telling you, I love this Cameo, it just works and works and works, lol.  The washi tape on this card are the birds in a row, it is an image from the Silhouette Library, I replicated until I had enough to fill a 1" by 5.25" rectangle, then lined the washi tape on my mat and installed a Micron pen into the Chomas pen holder (fyi - this process is pretty rough on the micron pen, so I have designated one just for my pen holder).  After it printed my images I took it to my table and filled in with copics (black) and then airbrushed it with Copic "Tuscany Orange".  The moon was colored with Copic. The top background rectangle is a Silhouette pattern and all other images are also Silhouette.


This is the test I did last night, on this one I applied the copic color to the tape by hand for those of you that do not own the airbrush.  I then filled in the mat with the snowflakes (I was not interested in the alignment etc on this one, just wanted to see if it would work).  I created a 1"x11.5" rectangle (remember to turn off the cut lines on the rectangle but make sure the cut lines are on for the images), I have a grid on my cutting board so I turned my grid on for the Cameo and was able to place the washi tape in the exact area I needed it to print.  So if you are off to create washi tape, please, please share when you are done.  Happy Monday, hugs

3 comments:

DonnaMundinger said...

Cut it OUT!!!! You're doing it AGAIN! LOL Fabulous! xxD

Sandy from Ukiah said...

I have to agree with Donna.. you are FABULOUS.. hugs S

1CardCreator said...

Wow, that washi tape is awesome! Great card too. Looks like you are really loving that Cameo!