Monday Morning Make - DIY Washi Tape Challenge

This is a first for me.  I have never gotten on the washi tape bandwagon...never totally got why people were loving it so much, but now I know!  Thanks to Claire at Waltzingmouse stamps and her Monday Morning Make, I forced myself to get out of my own little comfort zone and try something new.  Not only try it, but make it myself too!  Claire's challenge this week is to make your own washi tape using tissue paper and double sided tape.
Here is what I came up with:

First off, I didn't have any tissue paper, so I rummaged through my daughters room since I am likely to find just about anything in her messy room.  She did have a shoebox and there was a bit of tissue paper in it.  First problem solved.  Second, I didn't have any double sided tape in the widths that I wanted, so I took a 6 x 6 scortape sheet and cut it into strips, laid it on the tissue and colored it with copics as Claire did in her tutorial.  I chose my colors from Colour Q #174.  I love this weeks colors of pink, autumn rose, brown and cream.  I was shocked the technique worked for me on the first try...the tissue colored just the way I wanted it to and dried really quickly.

Next I stamped a few patterns on the tissue.  I used several images from Waltzingmouse Woodgrain stamp set and also from Pic-nic Patterns.  For my card design, I used Retro Sketches #48.  Don't those little strips look like washi tape?

I stamped a polka dot background with the round circle from Woodgrain and layered it onto a PTI Tag Sale #7.  I added some cute pinwheels and a sentiment from Playful Pinwheels and stitched it all to a sheet of patterned paper by Recollections, Valentine's Day pack.  The tag has a little twine and the little image in the corner was a little snippet of washi tape left over with a couple of buttons layered on top.  I really like the way this one turned out and wouldn't be surprised if I finally decided to give washi tape a real chance and start to collect some.