Wow, you have gave me so many good ideas guys. Seems like I have tons of work to do with just Washi tapes haha, but that's great. I will master it to the perfection then as there is really a lot of things, that I can still apply it too. Making a car track's or decorating my whole room seems like a little bit too much for me yet, but I will gladly continue learningon basic stuff, like ribbons or candle wrappers. Will let you know what I have managed to and what I haven't :)

Hey everyone! What a lovely day we have today - or at least I do. I feel so energized, woke up at 6 am and I just keep doing so many great and creative things today. Amazing energy, you just can't stop loving Sunday when you finally have some time off from work and you can focus on everything you love and do all the stuff, that you usually don't have much time for. Sure, cleaning the house, like I always do on Sundays is not so appealing, but still it's a fairly relaxing activity :)

Okay, let's start on Washi tapes. I was browsing Aliexpress tonight and I found quite a nice collection of washi tapes, that are greay to decorate basically anything. Washi tapes are for example great for all kind of colored journals, self-made albums with photos or greeting cards. But of course, you can also use them decorate pencils, pens or all kind of containers, even a candle though (this is what I have yet to do) - all you have to do is to simply glue it with a regular heater and you can create a simple fridge magnets for examle. Lots of uses to be honest, basically depends on your imagination, nothing else. I have decorated a few pencils and pens with them and applied two to my self-made photo albums. I will sure come up with other ideas soon, I just have to make more Washi tapes first and then I'm sure the ideas will start popping. You look at your Washi tape and you instantly know where you would like to apply it. I love it to be honest.

Sure, you can order them very cheaply online, but then again, as I am an origami fan and despite not having much experience, I just love to create things, even if it takes me quite a lot of time to do so.
So, I thought to myself: Why not? Those Washi tapes look fairly easy and there is tons of instructions out there on how to do them, so I started doing them. Took me around 5 hours of working non-stop to master how to do them, but I have managed to create 7 different Washi tapes. Those found on the internet somehow looked better, but professionals also know how to take great photos etc., so let's say mine were equally good :P But yes, overall I'm very happy with my efforts, it was pretty easy, just as I have expected, so nobody should actually encounter any problems during making them, but if you were to, let me know in this thread and I will do my best to help you.

So what about you, have you ever built any Washi tapes before? If so, what did you with them?

Welcome! As you are a beginner, I would recommend to focus on easy things, best something, that you can apply in practice. For example Washi tapes, that I have made a thread about earlier. It's probably the best solution to soldify your attachement to origami and creating something as not only it's pretty easy to do, but you can also use it to decorate basically anything you want. For me as well as many other people, it was the breaking point at the beginning. Just look for something, that you thought you will either really love (and is relatively simple to create) as well as something, that you are sure you will be able to put in practice. For example paper butterflies or flowers in a rainbow color are great for all kind of decorations - at least I love them, but then again not everyone likes to decorate their belongings with origami stuff, although I have found that most people I know that are interested in origami, including me, really love to do that. Most just makes exciting stuff and puts them on the shelves - it's a great decoration as well, although my taste here is a little bit more sophisticated and I always tend to focus on a proper coloring and ways to apply it to make my room or stuff more beautiful.

But anyway, that's me. Just in my opinion you should keep creating stuff, that you actually need, otherwise you may lose motivation or even get bored with, especially as most of your creations will be far from perfect at the beginning. That's just a suggestion though, welcome again!