Challenge #1: I love Ribbon!

Our sassy Queen Laura is ready with our first challenge!

Challenge #1:  Ribbon Challenge:  I LOVE RIBBON!  It's a bit of an obsession.  Use ribbon somewhere on your layout/project.  Here are a couple of ideas to help you on your way...

Scrapbook.com: You Color My World Layout

Scrapbookclubhouse: Happy Thoughts Card


We are getting crafty with ribbon around here:  Hit it, ladies!

LesleyG has been very creative (not!) with the use of ribbon.

Susanne has made the most of two scraps of ribbon for a card. Wonder what she's got under wraps there?

See Leslie's story of her page HERE

Now that you're inspired, it's your turn to have a go!

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Organize This: Week 12

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Ribbon, twine and fibers...anyone else feel like these can quickly take over your room?  They are so readily available, it is easy to collect them from packages and things.  Pretty soon you have a tangled mess on your workspace.

My Love Affair with the Label Maker has once again come to the rescue with a MASSIVE post of ideas!  Head on over there and get your tangled mess under control.

For me, I have my ribbon sorted by color, wound around clothes pins and sorted into jewlery bags.  (I hang them by book rings in my scraproom closet on the clothes rod.)  My lace and twine are stored in cross stitch floss boxes.

How do you store your ribbon, fibers, twine?

I think that gathered ribbon and small fabric ruffles add so much texture and dimension to a scrapbook layout or a card.  Today's tutorial I will link you to tutorials for ruffles from fabric and ribbon.

7 Ways to Make Ruffles From Fabric

Making Ruffles from Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon

Fabric Pleats

Tutorials: Various Tutorials from Fellow Counterfeiters

Just in case you didn't make it to our Master Forger's Blog Hop or Mr. Linky to check out fellow Counterfeiter's Tutorials, here are the links to tutorials that YOU have all posted so far this month...

Here is a whole FREE Digi Kit to download!!!  Thank you, Mary!!!

Find a DIY Patterned Paper here.

Here is a quick step by step overview to creating a pearlized snowflake.



Tutorials for 2 Patterned Papers and the October Afternoon Flower Sack can be found here.

Ideas for Pink Paislee Mistable Ribbon are here.



A DIY patterned "ruler" paper tutorial is here.

 

Tutorial-Pleated Ribbon and Crepe Paper



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There are a few pieces of pleated ribbon and crepe paper in the various inspiration kits this month.  Here are some great tutorials for creating your own!

• Ruffled Crepe Paper Streamers
• DIY Pleated Ribbon
• Ruffled Ribbon
• Layering Crepe Paper and Ribbon
• Dress Up the Crepe Paper Ruffles
• Paper Pleating Tutorial

Fabric, Burlap, Ribbon, and Rick-Rack Tutorials

Using fabric on your layouts...

Twisted Fabric Flowers Tutorial 

Fabric Birdie Tutorial 

Pretty cool "homemade stamped fabric ribbon" idea...Ribbon from recycled pillow cases

Stitched Fabric Embellishments
An example of this type of embellishment (I created this with multiple layers of fabric instead of paper towels)...

Fabric Birdie

Using Burlap on your layouts...

Burlap Flowers Tutorial 


Sherri's Burlap Flower


You can stamp an image on burlap, as demonstrated here...Stamping on burlap tutorial

OR

You can stamp a texture WITH burlap.  Simply wrap a piece of burlap tightly around a kitchen sponge, lightly dip it in acrylic paint, and stamp onto your paper for a great, unique texture.  (Idea taken from The Stamp Artist's Project Book by Sharilyn Miller)


Embellishing Rick Rack and Ribbons...

Crocheting on Rick Rack Instructions

5 Creative Ribbon Techniques

Have you ever used double sided ribbon and tried to tie a knot so that only ONE side shows?  I know I have had this problem before...I have found a You tube tutorial for a solution to this problem!!!  Tying a knot with double sided ribbon, so only one side shows!

A cool look that never occured to me...Fraying Ribbon

And finally, you can stamp on ribbon as seen here... Stamping on twill tutorial