I often use a bunch of different tapes in my scrapbooking especially...I love the effect they can bring to a project. Recently I decided it was time to sort through my collection...and, truthfully, I was stunned when I was done going through my stash. I couldn't believe I had as many tapes as I did...and I certainly had forgotten about a whole lot of the patterns I owned.
I decided I needed a way to view all my tapes at once...they had been in a big canister...but it couldn't be too big...I don't have tons of storage. So, I started searching around my house and this is what I came up with.
I started in my kitchen...I grabbed a little cherry tomato basket...then I headed to my basement and "uprooted" some fake flowers from their little pot and found some styrofoam in the bottom. I grabbed that too...
Pretty, huh? yikes...
My idea was starting to take shape...
Then I grabbed some 12" dowels I had left over from my corker-bow-making days and about 1/2 hour later this is what I had...
I simply cut the styrofoam to fit into the little basket, covered the basket with some of my tape, stuck the dowels in & done. OH! I did decoupage (with DecoArt's DecouPage) the tape to the basket because, as you may or may not know, washi tape is not the stickiest stuff around.
Now I can see every single roll of tape I own, and I can take some off the roll without disturbing the other tapes...
It's probably not the prettiest or most creative way to display/organize my stash, but it definitely works for me. And it was free...
So what do you think? I'd love to hear!
