DIY Embossed Personalized Tissue Tape - Nik the Booksmith 

YESSSS! Paper tape is used in hospitals for sensitive and geriatric skin. (Not nearly as sticky as the plastic tape that stays on for life or takes your skin off with it) 😂 However, the hospital only used vintage/tea stain color. PERFECT!! I must have over 100 half used rolls that’ve come home in my scrubs over the years! NOW they have a purpose other than jamming my junk drawer! Beautiful idea!! Danke!

0:56 - NtB- yur super likeable. Your videos are helpful, straightforward, clear, and not obsessive. ! Thanks so much for being a strong Professional in the journaling field. 😁

What a really cute idea. Thanks for sharing. Love the shadow around the 1st embossing. ❤️❤️❤️

You are brilliant, Nik! Thank you so much for generously sharing your talents yet again.

You never cease to amaze me. Wow what an awesome discovery! Fantastic idea! tyfs!

Awesome video Nik! This is fabulous and I can't wait to try this and share/reference your video with friends so they can learn more from you!

Thanks, Nik! Another use for a common household item!! Very cool!!

Really pretty! Great ideas! Tfs! I always use this tape to reinforce the backside of the Tim Holtz rosette die cuts, to prevent the folds from tearing.

Terrific idea~~~thank you...can hardly wait to do this!!!!

The embossing is GENIUS!!! :-)

I've seen a few tutorials on how to make washi and this is my favorite. I love that the tape is sort of translucent. You could do a ton of different things with this in photoshop. Great idea.

You have done it again. Love it. Thanks.

Love it! My hubby uses his heat gun for heating the shrink wraps around electrical wires etc.

Saw this someplace else. Picked up the paper tape but haven't done it yet!! Your video is so much fun. Love your videos and your antics. Thanks for sharing and being so real!

im so happy i found your channel. ive just been getting into paper crafting and i love what you come up with!!!! thank you so much for sharing your creations!

Love these DYI videos you've been doing!

Ooooh. Totally love the vintage image tape you printed in the laser printer. TFS. 🤗

Danke dir Nik,für die guten Tips

Great DIY and thanks for sharing these. Super cute but oh so handy little tapes to add.

That was a really cool experiment I appreciate you doing it “with us” so that I could see the results first and then decide if I want to try it on my own. You also make interesting videos (I hadn’t even realized that 22 mins had gone by), ha. Great job!! I’ve been following you a little over a year now and I am really enjoying your channel So glad Jennifer Harrison featured you so others can enjoy you, your channel, and your work as well!! Keep up the great work and happy holidays.

Great ideas! Love those little Stazon inks! Cute tapes! TFS!

Super cute, wonderful idea ❤

AWESOME IDEA!!!! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Wow nik! Totally fabulous,I love them xx

THank you for sharing this!! I have seen this done several times, BUT nobody has mentioned spritzing the tape with sealer or printing on it. Great ideas!! Thanks again for sharing freely!!

Great ideas! I wasn't going to watch this at first because I thought "embossing" would never be possible for me to do. However, you've shown me that I could do it, and in unique ways. Thank you!

Fabulous idea Nik.....thanks so much Maggie. ❤️🤗🇨🇦❤️

Thanks!! Great idea! I had some left over tape so played around with it. I don't have much in the way of the stamp pads so I used stencils and acrylic paint. Am going to try my Bombay inks, too. Experimented with various pens and markers. You can write quotes on them as well. Add a little metallic gold and antique varnish sparingly over the top and tada!! I attached the parchment paper to a large piece of heavy watercolor paper for support, but took the whole parchment paper with tape and rolled it up for storage once it is completely dry. This works great. VERY FUN!!! You have such wonderful ideas. I really enjoy your videos which are down to earth, funny, and very entertaining, not to mention informative. :-)

Wonderful tutorial and running commentary. Love to watch

what an AMAZING video...I will be sure to make these and give them in HAPPY MAIL. ...thank you Nik...you are amazing..sooo love your videos

I've seen this done many times before but not like this Nick, it's brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing this with us... rita

How fun! And easy to make!

This is so amazing! Wow great ideas!!!!

Cool, Nik! Thanks for sharing!

LOVE THIS Nik! Thank you for sharing. I always thought washi tape reminded me of this kind of tape! Looked in my First aid kit and found that my roll is 2' wide tape! I got all excited Lol I think it may even come in 3' wide rolls as well. Hope this helps someone or even you like you just helped me :)

Love your suggestions and this one for sure because I've been doing this for a long time !! The medical tape is awesome for lots of crafting. I do mixed media and it's great for adding texture to your pages and great of course for making your own tape, can be painted also. Thanks Nik .. Great minds think a like... just saying !!

Wonderful tutorial!! Thanks for the share...very generous!

Can't wait to try this!

Another great/handy tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

This is fabulous 😍 Thanks 😊 I do plan on trying this. 😊

YOU ALWAYS HELP MY CREATIVITY TO SOAR!!!

Love this and love your videos. You have a great personality.

You could put that on the back of 8x10 avery packing label sheets and not have to use the parchment! Sharing with my friend Miss Malone! Thanks again for all that you do!

Thank you for sharing love the embossing tape it is super cool 👏🏻😻👋💐🏵

And thanks for the great uses for ALL THAT paper med tape we have accumulated!

Brilliant Nik

So cool of an idea! Thank You for sharing!

Wow!! Muchly appreciated.

Brilliant! TFS

Thank you so much for this. I love your work!!!

Thank-you for sharing. Great ideas.💕😃👍💕

this is pretty cool. I love washi and will have to try it.

Very cool tutorial thank you for sharing..... So gonna try this xx

Nik it’s you who ROCK, you really really do 👍👍👍👍👍 I really really love 💖 this, it’s got endless possibilities. Thank you so much I really really will have a go at this too. Love 💖 Love 💖 Love 💖 watching you. xxx Mags

Stamping suppliers, such as Simon Says Stamp, sell "anti-static tools & powder" to help with the problem of embossing powder sticking where you don't want it. I also rub a dryer sheet over the area prior to inking and it usually works well. Hope that helps - LOVE your style, Nik!

I have really been enjoying these crafty tutorials, Nik! I bought rolls of 1/2" Micropore Tape on ebay and did a lot of the experimenting you did. I love my tape. Micropore also makes a tan tape in 1/2" and 1" width but it is too expensive for my blood at $9.80 for 2 X 1" rolls (Free Shipping). Dirty your white up with smeared Vintage Photo! Planner People: Glue sticker release paper, (glossy side up), to heavy cardstock the size of your planner pages, Punch holes to fit your rings and then load it up with your favorite home made washi! Make a paper tape card for each Season or theme you use, like the "day" planner stamps Nik used, but sized and handy to keep in your planner. I also bought a set of Rainbow masking tape on ebay that is tiny-about 1/4" or maybe 3/8" wide. It has more texture than the medical tape but it is really fun to play with. My heat tool works when I plug it in, too. : ) Guy looking heat tools are used to blister paint so you can scrape it off a wood surface instead of using a chemical paint remover, but they are way more fun for melting embossing powder! Thank you for the great video, Nik. You always make me smile , giggle or laugh out loud and teach me or remind me of something cool. You da best.

That is awesome. Thank you for sharing 😃

Nik, thank you for the great video. My Mom could only use paper tape, she was allergic to all other medical tape, so I have had it around me forever. Thanks again for the wonderful idea.

So cool!

bought this to use on something and never did...it is sitting in my supplies and now I will put it to work...thanks for this video.

Yey for your idea of faux washi tape DIY. Though it is videos like this that make me regret that I don't have a printer of my own... And all thumbs up for the experimentation, I really liked the word stamps you used and the first row of tape with the leaves!💗💜✂📏👍😁

Lots of helpful useful tips here. TFS

I haven't used that but I took some of those paper tapes that are on the measuring tape gum,,,they have a pretty design on them...and stuck them on double-sided tape and voila! I have washi tape!!! I love it! I like this idea too!!!

AWESOME! Thank you Nik! :-)

Plug it in it works great!!! ha ha ha ha ha ....omg you are sooo awesome! what a great way to start my crafting day!..Hugs and love from North carolina

Fantastic...absolutely going to try this...THANK YOU!!!! xo

Brilliant!

Hi, Nik. I, too, am really enjoying your creative/inventive ideas, though I am finding them almost a year after you posted. That's the beauty of RU-vid. . . I would love to see a tutorial on how you print with both laser and inkjet on unconventional papers. I'm honestly afraid the papers will disappear into my printers and they'll never work again. I did that with a 3 x 5 index card once and the printer was trashed. So, I'd love to see how you manage to print on non-standard media. Thanks so much for the out-of-the-box thinking.

GENIOUS!

Cool idea!

You crack me up!!! 🤣 Great tutorial 😊

Awesome idea...tfs! ♡

Very clever ;) I use that darn tape on the daily. #nurselife anyway. It has a barrier to attempt to waterproof allowing for showering and washing patients and not releasing the taped area. Constantly find this tape all over the place since they come home in my pockets.

The vid was sooooooooo inspiring!✌️🙏🇨🇦❤️

Love your great ideas and good formations, very enjoyable video thank you for sharing!!!! just subscribed to your channe God Bless x

This is great! Thanks for the video. Not sure if anyone mentioned this already but Stazon sells a stamp cleaner of course buuuuut, Purell works too! yes, hand sanitizer is the charm.

This is such a great tip!!..TFS! I loved the vintage designs you have...can you share where you got them?

In case anyone would like some wider tape, try out that paper masking tape for painting your house. They go up to about 5 or 6 centimeter. Worked great for me. Thanks for the idea, Nik!

There’s a little pillow of some kind of powder available preparing paper for this kind of embossing. I think it cancels out the static electricity. But I,too, like the smoky aura around the design. Thanks for this great hack! I’ll be looking for that tape for sure!✌️🙏🇨🇦❤️

That's a great idea. I wonder if the tape will be harder to remove from the parchment paper over time; in my experience, tape gets stickier the longer it sticks to something. But I don't know how long that is, so maybe it doesn't matter. A good reason to use it up!! Love it.

Nik I use non acetone nail polish remover on my rubber stamps to get off stays on. It works great then I use a baby wipe or rinse the remover off with water.

This looks fun to try.Thanks,Nik!Carol Young. Who knew?

Nik, you are the coolest chick! Nik the Cool Chik...😎 My next trip to CVS will find me in the 1st Aid aisle. 👍🏻🙂

Wow i Will try that thank u for the idea🤩

I used alcohol inks and then stamps. Awesome!

what a great idea....I am wondering if you can go in photo shop and do water color backgrounds print that out(no worries on lining it up) then stamp on it and allow the background to show through the stamps...hmmm interesting...so now I have to try that....lol more tutorials please...oh and the sea glass already have my tissue paper stamped just looking for the glass now. see what you do....hahahha thanks for inspiring me .

OMG..you are too funny!!! love this idea...will definitely try it...and I will make sure I plug my heat gun up...lol

A great vid, Nik. I do love your experiments & DIYs. esp when you show us exactly what you discovered - not everyone caters for the visual learner in that way. FYI Lindsay thefrugalcrafter makes an easy anti-static pouch for stamping work that might help with this tape & it's MUCH cheaper than the ones the stamp companies sell. Also, I wondered if anyone had tried this with an inkjet printer, as opposed to a laser one & how successful were they? TFS :)

very useful, thanks xxx

Love it! Tfs

Cool! Thanks

Set up a grid in word. Just rows the size of the strips. set up a narrow row between each one so that you have a bit of space with no overlap. so 1" then .2" then one inch etc. Print that out. attach that to the parchment and use that as your guild for the tape. Drag and drop your images into the cell rows. Shrinking them until they fit. Then make the cell lines invisible for the second round of printing. Now you can print out exactly on the 'Washi' tape.

Awesome

Thanks for the amazing tips & tricks Nik. Hope to try these. Just wondering if you'd be able to offer some of the 1inch photoshop printable images/stripes in your Etsy as a digi kit. Thinking I could print on velum & using double sided tape behind to add to my projects, or try printing on some masking tape attached to some baking/tracing paper. x

Love this idea! I tried something very similar but your's is more cost effective! I used double sided tape on the back of tissue paper. I used a Sharpie to journal on the tissue paper at an angle so when the paper was cut into strips with the tape the words could not be read. It was "okay" but limiting in the width and plus the double sided tape cost so much more. I want to try splattering ink or watered down paint on to see how that would look. I really enjoy your videos!!!!!

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you. I was so caught up in the images that I need some clarification about the spray. So if I understand correctly, when you're stamping you spray the tape first. Is that correct? Do you then spray it again after you've stamped and dried the images? Secondly, I got lost after you said it messes up your drum. Can you clarify what your recommendation is about using a digital image and printing with a laser printer? Is your printer one that you place the image on top, or do you feed it through the machine with staples? Do you apply the spray before or after? I take it you can't use an ink jet printer. Sorry about all the questions, but I'm one of those people who need a little extra help. But my parents taught me that there is no dumb question when you need an explanation.

You should sell copies of those papers in your etsy shop. I love those-I would print them on tissue paper and use them.

Very cool! xo Mchele

Micropore (it's a water permeable paper tape) .. I use this too... For Washi tape... and.... wonderful to use ... for 'repairing tears' in paper too.... as it takes inking very well!

Use Staz on spray ink remover that you can buy at Michaels, Jo Ann’s, etc, great video....& so easy to do