Tuesday, August 20

Duct Tape Bike Makeover

As you can probably tell, we've been a little bike crazy around the Skunkboy house.  It started with the tandem, and now our favorite family activity is riding bikes in the evenings.  Hope and I have been talking about finding a way to spice up her bike and make it scream "Hope", but we hadn't thought of anything great... until it hit us!  We've partnered up with Scotch Colors and Patterns Duct Tape to bring you a fun and colorful bike makeover!

The whole idea is to cover the bike in a rainbow of tape strips.  I did the cutting and Hope did the taping (until we got to some of the trickier spots).  Instructions for this DIY are literally cut and stick, cut and stick, repeat.  It was a really fun project that we were able to complete in just a couple of hours.

It was so fun to see her step back and take a look at the finished product.  "WHOA.  MY BIKE LOOKS AWESOME NOW."  So darn cute.  :)


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This post is a collaboration with Scotch Colors and Patterns Duct Tape. To see more creative projects, visit www.ScotchDuctTape.com.  Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest



42 comments:

  1. Looks adorable! Love it! :)

    Lulu xx

    https://www.luluslittlewonderland.blogspot.com

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  2. OMG I absolutely love what you guys did with that bike! <3

    xoxo Kisty
    kisty.net

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  3. Love this! I want to make my bike more personal myself, might check this tape out =)

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  4. This is so fun and simple! I love making things brighter like this!
    http://ahandfulofhope.blogspot.co.uk/

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  5. I'm so jealous of Hope's bike! What a brilliant idea. It looks amazing! xx

    chiakicreates.com

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  6. this is so cute! definitely screams hope now ;)

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  7. This is so cute! It totally looks like Hope's style now. Love that you guys are having so much fun riding bikes!

    -Becca
    Ladyface Blog

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  8. Perfect idea! And such a fun thing to do together! :)

    http://sometimesgracefully.com

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  9. cute! i should try this with my bike! :)

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  10. i definitely need to do this with my bike! i was desperate for a beach cruiser with gears and a basket. but the only one they had was hot pink. which is not my favorite color. great idea!

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  11. Love that! It's like a patchwork bike.

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  12. Oh any kid would be so envious and it is very easy to do. Great!

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  13. That's so cool! I will do it too! Great idea :-)

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  14. This is a fantastic idea! The bike turned out great!

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  15. That is so friggin' cool! I mean, I'm an adult, but I would still love to do that to my bike!

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  16. That is such a great idea! I LOVE it! What pretty duct tape. It totally screams Hope now.

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  17. Fabulous idea! Super creative as always, Miss Katie. :)

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  18. this is genious loooove this super simple project! xx
    Alice Barton ♥ TheMowWay

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  19. Love this!!!!! I actually did this to my tool kit for school. ^.^ Not that anyone would have mistaken mine for theirs considering I had the largest tool kit out of everyone but I wanted to just make sure. ;)

    x Sara from tinysugarbee.blogspot.com

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  20. this is so rad! Awesome job mama!

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  21. So cute. She looks so chuffed! :-) xx

    http://hipslikecinders.blogspot.co.uk/

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  22. This is SO cool!
    Well done girls! x

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  23. Nice little bicycle for my little daughter. If she saw this, Then she’ll ask for me. So, I want to decorate her bike like this.

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  24. Such a cool makeover! xx

    http://www.kaisaphoto.com

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  25. Awesome! I did try painting my bike and it wasn't easy at all. Wish I had thought of this!

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  26. THIS IS THE COOLEST. My inner preteen is screaming right now!

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  27. Amazing!!!!!!!! I love it ;D Better than washi tape??

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  28. That is such a fun mother/daughter project! Love it, and I would actually do that for my own bike! Yeah, I'm 10 years old inside! ;-)
    Kisses to you both!
    Melodie
    http://sevenlivesandmore.blogspot.fr/

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  29. this is way to cute and clever I bet she had fun doing it!

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  30. Great idea and wonderful execution.
    Duct tape rules!

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  31. great idea! Auris walksintheparks.blogspot.com

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  32. My little heroes will like this bike. I have boy and girl. They are my life.

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  33. It sooooo pretty!!! What a great idea, if only I'd thought of duct tape when I was younger ;)

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  34. That is awesome! how much tape did you use?

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