I won a bunch of decorative tape; so can you!
Hello everybody!
I’ve been a member of Etsy.com since 2005. At the time I had decided to focus on getting my art out into the world, and stumbled upon etsy one day. Etsy was pretty new, and it seemed a big risk to spend $80 on a camera to use to photograph my artwork. Little did I know how my art life would be wonderfully shaped by Etsy!
I was one of the first 4,000 artists to join Etsy (#3907!), and in those days it was easier to be found than it is now; I was lucky that my store became one of the Top 100 Sellers! (Click HERE to see my avatar in the #38 spot in September 2006.) And my editor for my most recent book, The Art of Silliness, found me on Etsy, too… I love Etsy!
Tomorrow is the Etsy Craft Party, “a global celebration of meeting and making,” which will be held around the world on Saturday from 12-6pm. (Seattle’s event will be held at 1430 Western Ave., right in front of Ugly Baby and La Rue [@uglybabyandlaru]. It’s a street party for artists! There will be swag bags and hourly raffle prizes… I donated classes from Carla Sonheim Presents to the raffle, so if you are in Seattle, come by for a chance to win a free online class!)
When I registered for the party, I was entered in a contest to win a box of decorative tape from 3M/@scotchproducts (a sponsor of the event)… and I WON!
(See? Etsy has been so good to me.)
So I’m sharing my tape-wealth. 😀
If you would like to win a stack of tape, comment here with how you might use it, and I’ll chose 6 random winners (International entries welcome). Winners will be chosen around 1pm PST Tuesday, June 9th.
And the random.org winners are:
#17 Teri Lynn
#58 Paige
#29 Patti Sandham
#68 Carina
#31 annacarin-sol
#52 2bcrafty
Thanks, everyone!
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Hi Carla, I’d use the tape for what I love doing – mail art. I love making my envelopes conversation pieces and my friends and relatives love getting mail from me. Thanks for the opportunity! Gina G in Springfield, IL
Because teachers always do for others before themselves, I am offering 4 free classes for them: Fabric & Button Trees, Painted Words, Mosaic Painted Pots and Washi Tape Frenzy. We could really use the tape for our August class. Thank you for your generosity!!! pamila
Display art. And for project life cards. I love washi.
Oh so fun. Thank you for doing the giveaway. Many possibilities – my journal probably mostly, wrapping tape possibly, decoration on paper heart garlands, and altered book page designs.
Thanks again.
Wow, beautiful tapes. If I win, I’m ganna use them to do something like this: https://goo.gl/shrmPI. I’ve been creating art with washi tapes and won a little prize last year in a small picture book contest (a page of it here: https://goo.gl/RbYfUO) with creating art by this. I feel there is a huge possibility to work with washi tapes and I love it. =)
What fun! So many possibilities, junk journals, art journaling, tags, mail art. Thank you for sharing your tape wealth.
I’ve been visiting you and following you for quite a while, what fun and interesting info about you and Etsy;) sweet to share your winnings…I would use in my art journal and in packaging my orders.
I’ve been using washi tape in my journal collages. It’s really fun stuff.
Hi Carla! I’d use it with some of my doodle art! Oh, and in my art journal, to decorate an envelope and who knows?! The possibilities are endless! 😊
WOW, what really cute tape. I’d love to win some. I’d use them in two ways. Some I’d use for work, to spruce up therapy materials and containers I keep things in (I work with kids with autism). The rest would, f course, go into my art haven, and find themselves in mixed media paintings and drawings and collages – you know, all the things that keep me sane.
I would the tape in my art journal and probably make some fun cards to send out! Love your blog!
Yay for the Etsy craft party. I wish I could come play in Seattle. As for the decorative tape, what CAN’T you do with it? I like to highlight journal pages, artist trading cards, and use it to wrap things I sell on Etsy to make them a bit more festive. 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend, Carla!
I would use it to see what spark it adds to Our Year of the Spark class.
Hi- I’ve been using washi tape to label jam. Here’s my current favorite recipe- 2 3/4 c strawberries, 1/3 c. Limoncello, 1/3 c lime juice, 2 c sugar, 3-4 T pectin. It’s like strawberry mlemonade!
Decorate the covers of my sketchbooks.
I would use it in my journal and mixed media canvases and decor projects for my new little grandson and for newly married home decor for my other son and some artwork for my favorite niece and and and …!!!
Great giveaway! Washi tape and art journaling go hand in hand.
Oh, the possibilities!! Altered books, ATC’s, journal pages, just to name a few 🙂
ooh! they look so cool! I always wanted to try the tape lesson from your book! also the tape lessons you posted a while back with acrylics and tape. thanks Carla!
…this tape is just great and I would love to win it & create new beautiful artwork with my kids in school!! 😊
I love decorative tape! I make handmade books, using the tape on the covers. I Use the tape in my art journal. Also, wrapping gifts, in general. the uses are endless!
A side note, I use your intuitive watercolor paint blob exercise as part of my traveling art journal! It’s a wonderful way to bring out my creative self quicker once I ‘unplug’ from everyday life! Thank you for sharing this brilliant tool!
Cheers!
I love those tapes! If I won a stack, I would use them in my art journals, on mixed media canvases, in the creation of greeting card journals, and on gift cards & tags. I do a lot of mixed media and washi tape is a staple for me!
I’m currently refinishing a little jewelry box that I’m going to use on my counter as a tea box! I want to do it in stripes, so this tape would be PERFECT!!!
I saw Tape with bees and my name is bea, I think it’s meant to bea…
Hello Carla!
I’d use it to pretty up the envelopes used for Happy Mail….and also in my mixed media pieces of art. Passing on your good fortune to us…You’re the best!!!
I would use it for art journaling for myself & the students I work with. I would also share with my sisters & my kids
Just opened my 1st Etsy shop. Want to decorate
the envelopes that I send out with my customer’s purchases. 🙂
Given the fun little book project I’d probably use it from more of those… until the next fun project and then it would be a supply for that too….
Huge fan, of *you*, Etsy, *and* washi tape 😀 These days, I’d use washi tape to mend my boys’ cars 😉 it’ll look so much better than plain tape 😀
Carla, how kind of you to share your tape. I love using tape in my journal to frame pictures and on the cover of small books too. Thanks for the opportunity.
Hugs
A generous giveaway Carla. Congratulations on your Etsy success. There are so many wonderful patterns of tape these days, that I like to use them as features on ATCs, and in collage. It would be quite challenging to make an entire collage from patterned tapes. Thanks for inspiring the idea.
Well, I haven’t used any washi tape, so I think I have to try it before I can tell you how I will use it! Probably it will go into my Bible journaling or in my Faith art journal. Blessings to you!
Hi Carla, congratulation to your winning ❤ I have a table, he is realy ugly. So i have the idea to decorate him with whasi tapes (i will need a lot of). I would like to have some of you, so it would become a international artist touch ❤ Have a great Weekend ❤
Hi 🙂 thank you for this opportunity 🙂
I love decorative tapes, i use it everywhere, in my art on canvas, art journal, private diary, day to day notes for friends, birthday cards…it makes me happy and everyone who recieves something beautiful and colorful from me 🙂
Oh, so cool. I’d love to use some of that gorgeous washi tape to hold things in my journal, tickets and stuff like that.,;-)
I would use my stack of tape to make cards. I love adding the unexpected.
I would love to use decorative tape to finish up a pack of 100 ATC’s I started. I also have lots of collage material to use and pretty tape would motivate me to create! Thanks for sharing! ♡
I love washi tape for birthday cards and my journal pages. Thank you Carla!!!
These are adorable, there is a really good chance they would sit on my drawing table being admired for far to long 😉
I would dress up a sign, decorate envelopes and read the comments to see what other creative ideas are floating around!
I would chase rabbits with my tape and catch up on all my spark!, doodle, davenport,life book lessons that I am sooooo far behind in. Love your work, inspiration, and blog! Thanks Carla!
I would looove to use that beautiful tape in my art journal and in my planner. And I’d give a few pieces to my son who also loves being crafty. 🙂
I teach art in a special ed high school and I would use the tape with my students. I teach them how to make art journals and I would introduce them to all the different uses for decorative tape on the journal pages. I love it and use it in my own art work in paintings ( watercolor and acrylic) but we don’t have a budget for it in school. I would also use it on signs that we make in school for fundraising sales, i.e. hamburger, hot dog, bake sales…..It adds so much to their hand lettered signage through out the hallways! Very cool giveaway.
i want to use them as ribbons since i got a few DIY soaps without packaging. So i want to package them nicely before giving to my friends.
Congratulations Carla! I love your Etsy story. It gives me hope about getting my art out there more. I’d use the tape in a series of small collage pieces I’ve been thinking about, some based on classes I’ve taken with you over the years.
Have a great Etsy Party! XO Serena
Ooooo those tapes would look lovely in my journal! I like to decorate it with tape and makes me excited to do it! 🙂
Thank you for the giveaway! I love your blog, artwork and books. The washi tape you won is exceptionally fun and different! I think I would definitely use it on envelopes, cards, etc. but I would also love to try to make some sort of jewelry with it. Wouldn’t it be beautiful?! Thanks again!
I would share the tape with my group at Blue Shoe Arts. It’s a group with developmental disabilities, we started a hand quilting group and some of us scrapbook and journal. Thank you so much for the chance to win.
I would use the tapes in my art journal and on index cards i am working on right now. And i would like to try sewing them on fabric as well, mixed media projects with paper, fabric and tape 🙂
I am a tape-junky! I have lots of rolls 😉 I use them for all kind of things: on my cards, to stick things on the wall and even my girlies use them as wallpaper in the doll house! 😉 watch: http://www.beetjebezig.nl/search/label/Washitape
congrats ! And thanks for sharing 😉 ! I don’t have washi tape yet. I probably would search a way to use it in jewelry ?
Enjoyed reading your story about your history with Etsy. I would use the tape in my art journals.
way to go gal :), I would use them to brighten up next year’s planner -album I have bought for my daughter. She suffers with deep depression and anxiety and washi tape doesn’t go over the top when trying to add colour to a page 🙂
ciao joan
Hello Carla! I would use this tape in my art journal, collage and mail art. Thank you for the opportunity, it is very generous of you!
What a fun giveaway. I would use the tapes to adorn my handmade note cards, pages in my journals and books. So pretty, I just might use as a bandage!
I recently learned how to use the tape to bind paper to make fun journals. Thanks for the chance!
My granddaughters school/home art works attach together into great “books” using wash tape. I would love to win and thanks for a chance.
I absolutely love using washi tape! It is so versatile and can add so much zing to your zinger!!! Please pick me…please😍
Oh my, how wonderful!!! I love the little house tape. How cute. I would use the tape at the nursing home to make collages and cards and abstract art. Thank you for sharing your bounty Carla!!!!!
Mixed media art, with skewers for cupcake flags and for random tags and packaging!!’
Congratulations on your 10th year anniversary! I would love to win some tape because my five year old daughter keeps finding my Washi tape and making wonderful creations with it and it would be lovely to share some new and exciting tape and see what we could come up with together!
Yééééééééééééé!!!! (Means yeah in French.. heheehe) Congratulations! Who better than you could have won that! 🙂
Don’t count me as a possible winner… Lol! Let the chance to other ladies… I already have so many of those that I could open a store! 😉
Hi, thanks for the giveaway. I would use the tape to do mail art or decorate my journal.
Oh what fabulous tapes! And how generous of you to pass them on. I would use it as embellishment on the pages of a journal I am making for my nieces about a trip we took together last month.
I love Washi Tape. I add a bit of spark to pens, pencils, notepads and my journaling pages, of course! Have an especially blessed day!!
I’d use it to cover spines on little books, in my journal, and share with my tweens. Thanks for sharing, Carla 🙂 !
at first I thought i’d use it on the spines and inside my little blobamal books but then I thought it might be more fun to do a taping intervention and use it decoratively on people who say art can’t be fun or silly.
Hi, Carla
I have just discovered these colourful tapes. I delight in the ones with the little scenes. As far as using them, I would cover my journal notebooks with their currently boring one solid colour covers. I think I would also like to cover my tools, etc. like the stapler and the label maker. After that I think I would experiment with some designs or even pictures using the tapes as the drawing implements and “mark makers.”
I love using tape in my art journals for borders and to add more layers and complexity. Decorative tapes are just fun.
The tape would become a component in the postcards I seem to be making all of the time.
Oh! I’d love to win some tape and use it in my art, I’ve been doing a lot of mixed media work and it would be cool to incorporate some decorative tape! I’m also trying to get my Etsy shop going, trying to make more sales, and I could use the tape for packaging as well.
thanks for the opportunity!
I love to collect these washi tapes, I buy them everywhere I go when I travel, so each roll has it’s own little story to tell. I have them on display on a wood dowel in my studio, like a delicious skewer of colorful stripes! It makes me happy just to see them there but I also use them with abandon on everything! I would be absolutely delighted to have just one roll from Carla for my collection!
I love decorative tape. I’d use it for borders on drawings, on hula hoops, to make “pockets” in books. And more!!
I love these tapes! I ALWAYS use them to line my sketchbooks! That is EXACTLY what I would do with these!!! Thank you for being so awesome!!!!
WOW!!! I would LOVE to get my hands on this tape!! For starters, I’ve always been intending to buy some Washi tape and start playing (a la the recent packing tape lesson) but never got around to it. THEN I did the packing tape and had so much fun with it that I never want to quit! I plan on making some cards with it–I never seem to have any stationery around, but I DO have blank artists cards and envelops I was always intending to put photos on. Ooooo–how about photo “lifts” AND tape on cards? With other stuff? Oh, pleeezzz pleeezzzz.
I love tape and use it in my art journaling and pen pal letters. Would love to win this!
Hi Carla and thanks for this fun giveaway!
I am probably one of the ONLY people in North America who does not own ONE ROLL of tape! Yup, sadly so 🙂 It is just something I never purchased as part of my art work so I would have mega fun adding it to any and all my upcoming projects.
I would use it to create some awesome, super duper, cool, funky mix media piece. It will be so grand to win some tape! I would create!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it would be fun to add to my supply stash that I use for projects with my 4 year old daughter. She would probably want to use it on everything, like she does with cute bandaids.
I’d add them to the bookmarks I’m making for a fundraiser.
would love, love, love to win washi tape for use in collage–
thanks for the give away–
Hey there Carla! Sounds like a fun party to be able to attend in person. What a great success story you are too, and you know I have been a fan for years now myself! Your art is so witty and a great example of not only understanding your mediums but also adding that intuitive touch and magnificent sense of humor you seem to always have as well as a uniquely all your own style.
I love all these tapes that have come out, that stack with the honey bees looks like a ton of sweet fun! If you chose me as a winner, I would share with my eleven year old son who just jams at using tape to create his art. Last weekend he and a few of his friends got into the cardboard we had stored in our garage and made some swords and shields with duct tape. I often take him along with me when I art supply shop and allow him a certain amount of purchases depending on what holiday , birthday etc is coming around. He often chooses tapes.
We would use these tapes to make art, cardboard creations wrap birthday gifts and in any mixed media we could come up with. Would be awesome summer fun! Thanks for sharing with some lucky 6!
Hugs, Sanna
arttage@yahoo.com
Journling or taping my glasses together 😀 or both
I’d use this tape for all this pretty little things that arise each new day (little books and stories, collages, cards and letters, memories, …).
Congrats, Carla. Not only are you a top seller, but you’re a top dog give-away artist! I’ve entered numerous Sonheim giveaways and maybe this will be my lucky attempt. I’d use that tape however it moves me!!!!!!!
Carla, gracias! nunca las usé… así que estaría divertido probarlas, beso!
Thanks for the chance to win. I love washi. It is my go to art supply for both scrapbook layouts and my art journal. My daughter also sneaks in to the studio and gets her hands on the washi.
oh my.t win something. That would be great !!!! Great for art journaling, cards, etc etc. thank you for sharing your goodies
Hello Carla! I am teaching arts & crafts during a 4 week summer camp for kids, ages 5-12. I would love to use the decorative tape with my students for various craft projects they are making. From bookmaking, craft stick puppets, popsicle stick catapults, gods eyes, various weaving projects, clothespin racing cars, magic wallets, etc. – the kids love using decorative tape and so do I!
Sounds like a fun party!
Congrats on your Etsy success!!
I would love to use this wonderful tape to cover up a cute tube box that I just got with a mug-it needs some prettying up!
I’d use it to play and make art and not care about the outcome, just the enjoyment of beautiful bits of washi tape that I can have fun with. Thanks Carla. Xxx
Nice to hear about your Etsy beginnings! As for ideas for the tape, I am sure I can count on you for lots of ideas in class on what to do with them! I love the little houses on the tape, so cute!
love the sticky stuff! If I win I’d add it to my stash of goodies that I’ll be sharing at the summer workshops I’ll be “teaching” this summer… and beyond.
I’m a tennis instructor and I always love doing fun DIY stuff for my kids for targets or just for demonstrative purposes. I would definitely use it for that.
Marie
I will be using the tape as borders for journal pages, both in my art journal and my writing journal
I love doing DIY activities at home so I’ve made a ton of cool containers and organizational stuff for my room!
Julie
I would use them when wrapping a gift. Some brown craft paper and some decorative tape. The best!
I would use the tape in the Healing Mondays art project that I am helming staring in September for woman who use the services of the South Okanagan Women in Need Society. http://www.sowins.com
We are just getting the program back up and running again and are so excited to bring the healing power of art to the women that SOWINS’ serves. We will be doing a lot of mixed media projects so these cute tapes would really help out – especially for those of us to hate a blank page – a great way to get things started.
Thank you for you consideration 😀
Lucky you and so generous too. 🙂 I have fun with washi tape in my journals and mail art. The more the merrier.
Carla,
Since you are willing to share the tape with me, I would do the same. I would share the tape with my art journal students. My wonderful students always are so appreciative for the things I give them. This would be an excellent way to inspire them to create around the tape.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Sharon Lynn Payne
what a lovely idea Carla. I’m a rookie – even though I’m already ‘an older lady’ *g*.
I love to be creative with my photography, but I wanted to do something else. So I found Junk Journaling a perfect addition, this way I can combine things and put them to something new. Since I’m still collecting stuff for use it would be lovely to own washi tape.
regards from Germany
Rike
I would love to use those tapes for my collage work! Thank you for the chance to win!
Etsy is still a nice place to be, though not small anymore. Love tape, I use it in my calendar & art journal all the time and would love some new ones.
I would use it on the snail mail cards I mail out 🙂 Thank you for the chance to win!
I may finally get motivated to make decorative tape imaginary animals with the tape. I never got a chance to do it when that lesson came up. Carla, you’re always popping into my art life! Joyce
I need some more decorative tape… I have 3 roles and use them all the time in my art journaling…, but am starting to hate them, need new ones!
Hello! I love your work! I usually use washitape for giftwrapping, mail and for making cards. Good luck everyone! :))
Ahhhhhhh So many uses for the tape!!!! How do I count the ways!!! Oh wait….that’s another story!!! I would use the tape in my fiber cards I make for friends and family BD’s, thanks you’s, etc. How nice of you to give away your ‘win’!!!
I would use it on my collage cards, my homemade journal covers and for wrapping fancy gifts. Thanks Carla!
Gorgeous tapes! What a lovely idea – thank you. I would use them to make paintings where I combine torn washi tape for a woman’s dress and cut washi tape for birds and trees…. and I commit to making one painting as such as a giveaway on my own blog!
I would try to do these imaginary animals with tape. Never tried it!
I’ve been working on the imaginary cats…I now have hundreds of different cats. I am thinking of using wallpaper and tape to make some different patterns for the cats.
I use it on the edges of my journals, planner pad and to mark the pages of books that I’m reading that I want to come back to. 🙂 Love washi tape! Can’t wait to use it on care packages for my step-daughter who is going to be attending University of Texas in the fall.
I make journals and would love to be able to add decorative tapes to them.
I would love to win. I would use it in my mixed-media art, in my art journalling and to accent everything!
Hi Carla, I love your blog, your book “drawing lab” and also really like your free tutorials! I would use decorative tape in a collage, to stick little notes or drawings in my sketchbook and to put artwork from my children on the walls:)
Wow, lucky you! And so generous to use them for a give-away!
I would love to win some of your stash – to add them to my June mini books – assignment in Year of the Spark . I also love to add little bits of tape to my journal and to other mixed media projects.
🙂
oooh, yummy tape! I would use it to keep sending snazzy snail mail cards to pen pals. We all love getting *real* mail, with artsy treats inside, as everyone is emailing and cyber communicating so much these days. It is lovely to get a wonderfully decorated envelope from a friend in the pile of *drudgey* bills and notices we get regularly!
I would use to make journals and handmade cards!
Ok…I would use it to connect my doodles. Just like in the Doodles class!
congrats to all the winners 🙂