Showing posts with label ribbons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ribbons. Show all posts

17 May 2020

Ribbon and Cactus Birthday

A way of using your small scraps of ribbons to create a lovely background for any stamped image


Being in lock-down provides lots of opportunities to do those tasks you keep putting off - my task this week was to tidy my sewing threads and ribbon boxes. They do get awfully tangled ! It was then I realised how many small bits of ribbon I had and as I do not like to throw anything out.  I had to think of a way to use them, hence the card this week.
Finished card, ribbon background with cute smiley cactus in the centre

Using nesting square dies to create the base to stick your ribbons to makes a really stable background. It doesn't have to be square dies, you could use any nesting dies and even turn the item into a really cute tag - this would use up your really tiny bits of ribbon.

There are some lovely ribbons out there - different widths, textures and some even have pictures or patterns on them. Mix and match to get a lovely background.

I haven't quite got around to finishing sorting out my ribbon stash - sort of got distracted with this card !
My wicker basket full of tangled ribbons

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made