Art Journal Pages: Washi Tape

Next month’s art journal session’s theme is ‘Washi tape’. This versatile patterned translucent sticky tape is ideal for decorating pages, but can also be used as a masking tape. Here are two pages for your creative inspiration.

art journal page - stripes of distress inks art journal page - circles of colourIn the first, I have used myriad colours of distress ink over tape lengths which are added and removed at random. I’ve highlighted the horizontal lines with some faux bleaching through a lined stencil.

In the second, I bought some ‘lace’ Washi tape – this is cut to shape and forms the base line for the page. I’ve traced a stencil and then coloured in the circles and blacked out the borders, trying to use the same colours as in the tape itself.

Used in these layouts:

  • Daler Rowney Graduate Sketchbook A5
  • Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Inks: various
  • Washi tapes: various
  • The Crafters Workshop 6×6 stencil (Live Love Laugh) [TCW467S]
  • Dreamweaver Embossing Paste: White
  • Creativ Company Lace Washi Tape [Art. No. 25263]
  • Circles stencil – unknown
  • Distress Paints: Fired Brick / Dusty Concord / Mowed Lawn / Fossilised Amber
  • Posca pens: black (PC-5, PC-1M)

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