Today I played around with washi tape a bit. I love the stuff, but except for using it to tape up orders for my shop, I never quite know what to do with it. Today, though, I used it to make some notebooks and my pencil cup (ahem, a tin can), way more cute.

The striped tape is from a local Portland craft store, and the spotted tape is from Paper Source.

Read on for more details about how I did it.

I bought these tiny little Molskine notebooks to carry around in my purse, but they only come in limited colors and were a little too plain for my taste. So I wrapped them both in washi tape.

I very carefully lined up the stripes to get this neat continuous stripe effect.
The striped one ended up being my favorite of the two.

Do you have any washi tape? What do you use it for?