This is a good decoration idea if you just have little time but still want to have a unique Christmas decor. Just take some old coasters and stick Washi Tape on them. You can always do the same pattern or design each one in a different way. After Christmas you can remove the tape and have your old coasters back.
Today’s Christmas craft: Washi Tape Christmas Coaster
You need Masking Tapes and coasters
A super simple decoration idea for the Christmas table
In today’s Christmas DIY we made a cute Christmas tree table decoration. We cut out a cone from a regular big envelope and started sticking Washi Tape on it. You start from the bottom and go up layer by layer. To achieve the tree effect do not stick the tape stripe completely onto the cone, but leave the end sticking out. As you can see we also made tree version where we did not leave the ends loose, but the ‘real’ tree version looks a lot better.
Today’s Christmas craft: Washi Tape Table Christmas Tree
You need a big envelope and colorful Masking tapes
Fold and cut the envelope into a cone
Start sticking stripes of Washi Tape on it from the bottom
Go up layer by layer and always leave the ends of the tape stripes loose
You can stick to a certain color pattern or just go crazy
It really looks like a tiny Christmas tree
We also made a tree where we attached all of the tape to the cone
Washi Tape Christmas cards are one of the coolest ideas ever. They look so pretty and are unique. This year we made a couple of different models. Some were done super fast; the card with the three little Christmas trees honestly just took one minute to make. Other cards, for example the one with the snowman or the Christmas balls, took a bit longer, as round shapes are a bit more tricky. Which one do you like best?
Today’s Christmas craft: Washi Tape Christmas cards
This year we crafted a few different cards
All you need are plain cards or cardboard and Washi Tape
You can make cards with Christmas tapes, but you can also just use regular ones
You can make shapes or words
Round shapes are a bit more tricky, but also not very hard to make
With Washi Tape it is super easy to craft some unique Christmas window decorations. For this DIY we made some abstract Christmas trees by sticking colorful pieces of Masking Tape on a window in our office. You can make any shape or decoration you want. The tape can be pulled off super easily if you need to correct or remove something.
Today’s Christmas craft: Washi Tape window decoration
We used different Washi Tape to stick trees onto the window
We decorated the trees with little stars
The more tapes you have the more color combinations can you do
Time to start thinking about Christmas presents. Our text lady Bianca knows our products quite well, after all she adds them to our online shop. She shared some of her favourite Christmas present ideas with our kawaii Christmas Rilakkuma.
Bianca and Rilakkuma came up with some kawaii Christmas gift ideas
Fabric Bundles
Fabric bundles are great gifts for people who love to sew but also for people who like to decorate or craft, as the fabric pieces can be used in lots of different ways. There are lots of formats such as Fat Quarters, Charm Packs, Rolls, Ten Squares and more.
Fat Quarter fabric bundle dots Watermelon Robert Kaufman
Shinzi Katoh Stationery
Shinzi Katoh is a stationery manufacturer from Japan whose products really have a unique style. They make lots of pens, post cards, stickers, notebooks, Washi Tapes and more with adorable fairy tale designs. Little Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland are two characters which can be found on lots and lots of items.
mini envelope Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale Shinzi Katoh
mt Casa Washi Tape
The line mt Casa was released this year and is designed for home decoration. You can decorate walls, furniture, tiles, windows and a lot more with the extra wide Washi Tapes. The best thing is that you can remove them easily and redecorate whenever you want. A great gift idea for adult s and children alike.
super wide blue mt Casa Washi Masking Tape 20cm deco tape
Pillows
The kawaii pillows in funny shapes look great on beds, couches, armchairs or car seats and are so soft and fluffy that you will never want to sleep, cuddle or relax without them.
super big Rilakkuma white bear head plushie pillow
Book Bento Boxes
This bento box in the look of a book is a funny gift idea for book lovers, food fans and Bento-Manicas.
red book lacquer Bento Box lunch box Prime Nakamura
Microfibre Cellphone Pouches
A great accessory for phones, glasses jewelry and so on, as the soft microfibre interior of the microfibre cellphone pouches can clean your display and glasses.
Rilakkuma brown bear microfibre cellphone pouch glasses case
Yay, we are featured in the awesome German DIY magazine Lena Creativ again. This time we teamed up for their crafty Christmas issue, which was released in October. The editors used our echino fabrics to sew beautiful things like a patchwork blanket or a cosmetic case. They also put them on photo albums which really looks great is a cool Christmas gift idea. It’s so exciting to see our products in magazines, we love it.
The cover of the Christmas issue of the German magazine Lena Creativ
This beautiful blanket was made with our fabrics
Lena Creativ used our echino fabrics for this cosmetic case
On the bottom picture you can see photo albums with our echino fabrics and Washi Tapes that we sell
This DIY is a fun alternative for using a real Christmas wreath. The Washi Tape Christmas wreath that we made is super light and can easily be attached to any door. We cut out a wreath from some thick cardboard and stuck pieces of green Masking Tape on it. You should stick them clockwise layer by layer and vary the tapes so that you get interesting visual effects.
Today’s Christmas craft: Washi Tape Christmas wreath
You need: thick cardboard, Washi tapes and a cutter
Cut out a wreath
Start sticking pieces of Washi Tape on the cardboard
The tape can overlap the cardboard edges a little
We added some Christmas designs to our wreath
Did you like our super easy Christmas tea lights DIY? Here is one that is just as easy. As candles are a wonderful accessory for winter and Christmas time that create a cozy and romantic mood we started another Candle DIY. For our Christmas candle jars we just took some empty marmelade jars and decorated them with colorful stripes of Washi Tape.
Today’s Christmas craft: Christmas candle jars
A super quick DIY to make great accessories for Christmas
What you need: empty jars and Washi tape
If this sounds familiar it’s because we have given you free digital Washi Tape already. But we have so many Christmas Masking Tapes that we made several editions of digital Christmas Masking Tapes. You can download it for free again.
Click on the picture below to save a zip-file that contains several pictures of many different Washi Tapes with Christmas related designs. And if you missed our first edition of Christmas Masking Tapes, download it now.
Click on this picture to download our second edition of free digital Christmas Washi Tapes
Christmas is slowly approaching, so it is time to start our annual Christmas gift ideas series. This year we decided to let our staff members and our office mascot Rilakkuma provide you with inspiration, as they know our products best.
Lok and Rilakkuma present some kawaii ideas for your advent calendar
Our packing fairy Lok is the first one to go. She is really an expert in the warehouse, so we asked her to pick some things she thinks are suitable to put in an advent calendar. After all these 24 little things are the first thing on your to do list if you are planning to make one as it has to be ready by December 1st. Her are some of Lok’s ideas:
1. Band-aids
With their kawaii designs and colors these band-aids are everything but boring.
fairy tale Alice in Wonderland kids Bandage Band-Aid set
2. Mini folder
Mini folders are really adorable and very suitable to hold receipts, little notes or stickers. We have a wide range with one or several pockets.
kawaii Rilakkuma brown bear mini plastic folder 3-pocket
3. Push Pencil
You don’t see them too often anymore, but push pencils are a fun thing that was very popular in the 80s and 90s. Each pencil contains several tips, and once one is used up you take it out and push it to the back of the pencil, so that a new one is revealed.
kawaii animals push pencil crayon set 5 pieces from Japan
4. Sticker sacks
Each sticker sack contains up to 100 stickers, so they are a great little treat for stationery lovers.
kawaii traveling panda sponge sticker sack from Japan
5. Squishies
Squishies are a fun and cheap little accessory. Lots of them are scented, they look cute, come in lots of different shapes and colors and are very enduring.
Hello Kitty waffle red bow squishy charm
6. DIY Eraser Making Set
These kits contain several blocks of eraser material in different colors and scents that you can form into any shape you want. Each DIY eraser making set comes with instructions for a certain dessert design.
DIY scented eraser set from Japan macaron macaroon dog
7. Reflective stickers
Reflective stickers are not just very cute but also quite useful as they reflect light and are a great protective add-on for traffic.
orange reflective stickers hamster dog cat
8. Shinzi Katoh Masking Tapes
Masking Tapes are perfect to put into advent calendars as they are small, cheap and pretty. The Shinzi Katoh Masking Tapes have a very special design that really sticks out.
Panda Bear Animal Washi Masking Tape deco tape
9. Bento Towels
These cute small towels are perfect as a light permanent companion. They fit in every purse and also make a great hand towel for your bathroom at home.
brown Chocopa panda bear suitcase towel from Japan
10. Plugys
A small gift with a great effect. Cellphone plugs are really kawaii, they look super cute on your smartphone and also protect the earphone jack from dust or moisture.
pink My Melody bunny mobile phone plugy earphone jack
11. Mini Tag Memo pads
This little notepad is really tiny, but super kawaii.
Little Red Riding Hood mini tag memo pad Otogicco Decole
12. Buttons
We recently got these cute little buttons from Robert Kaufman’s Hello Tokyo collection. Aren’t they perfect for an advent calendar?
Kokeshi doll girl button set 3 pieces by Robert Kaufman USA
13. Clips
You can use these lovely small clips in many ways: to close bags, to hang laundry, to hold papers together, for pictures etc.
Rilakkuma Wonderland brown bear crown pennant clip peg
14. Glass Stickers
Glass stickers are kawaii decorative items for your windows, glasses, bottles or anything made from glass that needs embellishment.
Red Riding Hood mountain glass window sticker Otogicco
15. Iron-On towel loops
What a useful idea. With these iron-on towel loops you can add loops to to towels or garments which don’t have one.
mushroom iron-on transfer towel loop Japan Decole