Happy Birthday Son/Funky Fold Card

Hello everyone,

 today I'm sharing a Funky Fold card I designed for my Son, it was his 20th Birthday this last Wednesday! I did use Lots of Really Reasonable Ribbon on his card & Guns.

I'm not into making manly cards, but I do when needed....hehehehe.  I'm a girly girl for sure! On this card, I did notice that maybe I should have left off the doily, but I thought at the time it broke up the background and image doily.

I used Really Reasonable Ribbon's Beautiful Leaves Trims(in Black & Brown) 

Love the look of those. Bonnie does carry a ton of colors in the leaves!!

I also used all Buttons from Really Reasonable Ribbon too. I used Ivory & Latte packs.

The bow was made using Brown Satin.

For the dp, I used Graphic45. I love the colors on this piece. I also used CottageCutz Doily's(Scalloped Doily, and Oval Doily & Frame)

My stamped Guns are from Victorine Originals Stamps

and 

all distressing and coloring is done w/Tim Holtz Distress inks.

Thank you for looking and have a lovely weekend!!

Hugs to all,

Cheryl

Summer Fun Layout

  Hey folks..it's Ginny here with a super sweet and simple summer layout.   I was able to use some pics from an older layout....and some fun paper patterns and embellishments. How long have I had this picture??? Well...Alex  the little blond kiddo in the pic is starting college. His buddy is my BFFs son Caleb is going to be a junior in high school. LOL

I created the fun banner with paper cut outs, Brown Paper Cord and added sassy little bows of Moss Green Gingham from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

The rest of the embellishments are stickers from a large sticker sheet, and some small file folders with some book paper inside.  Adding brown borders and ink helps to define the patterns. This is one of the few layouts I've created that will actually fit in a book. lol

I firmly believe that it's okay to rework your layouts to reflect your evolving styles  and increased abilities. We are always picking up new techniques and skills...why not update creations????

I hope you all enjoy a happy and productive day and find some time to be creative. Huggs G

'Me @ 12' Layout

Good Morning!  I am here this morning with a layout for you all. It is a little different than my normal, but I am  loving the yellow and turquoise mix! This is my 12 year old from last year.  I wanted to capture her unsuspecting so that I had a true image of HER.  Not her random goofy faces....which I am sure all 12 old do for the camera!  This is "Me @ 12" and I featured a lot of twine  in here a lot to help "tie"it all together. 

I used the twine to "stitch" the papers together.

Here is a close up of the stitching:

I know I say it a lot, but I am gonna say it again.

I LOVE the RRR Store! 

Bonnie has so many varieties of twine and ribbons! 

Go check it out and create something beautiful!

Have a great day!

Darling Baby Girl

     

    Happy Wednesday my friends!  Cherry here to share a sweet baby album made for RRR.  Every time I do a mini album I always wonder why I don't do more of them because I enjoy doing them so much!  They do take longer than some altered projects or cards but I always feel such a sense of accomplishment when done.  I started with a nice sturdy chipboard base that I painted cream and distressed.  I than picked my papers and alternated them every other page mixing and matching.  I stuck to around 4-5 patterns and repeated them for continuity.   I started by embellishing the front page with my goodies.  I added sweet details like the little stars, buttons, and mini diecuts for interest.  The inside I heavily embellished each page to the right keeping my baby theme.  The left side pages I added vellum envelopes to tuck memories and lockets of baby's hair.  Or any keepsake Mama might want to tuck away.  There is also room for pictures of the wee one. I added Carolina white crochet lace at the bottom of each page.  Once done I assembled my pages together and it was ready for the cherry on the top!  All the sassy ribbons that I tied onto the rings.  This is the fun part I think.  I love tying on the ribbons and adding little trinkets and sentiments in between.  I used pink grosgrain in circus dots,  pink chevron grosgrain, satin with scalloped edge in pink, and Diamond satin in pearl pink.  This is a great way to use up shorter snippets of ribbons.  Well that is about it.  Hope you enjoy!  Have a wonderful day and rest of your week.   hugs, cherry

Rain or Shine

We had a lovely spring rain a couple of days ago -- I loved the sound of it on my deck, and when I woke up, there was a delicious fog all around that made me feel like I was in England! It burned off by 10 a.m. and left a cloudless sky.

Sometimes clouds are really fun. Like when they are die cuts from The {Stamps} of Life! Both the umbrella and the cloud dies are  designs by Stephanie Barnard:

The fun stamps are from umbrella4you. I stamped the umbrella using Stephanie's Premium Strawberry ink, and filled in with Cornflower. The dots are colored with a Copic marker. 

I added some Cherries Jubilee buttons by Buttons Galore and 3/8" Aqua Floral Satin ribbon all available from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

 

The Aqua Floral Satin ribbon is one of my favorite ribbons Bonnie carries. The shimmer and subtle floral design is perfect for so many projects. There are three other beautiful spring colors. Type "Floral Satin" in the search bar at the store site! Buttons come in all colors and are available here.

Both the buttons and the ribbon (as well as the card panels) are adhered with Scor-Tape.

Did you see the new challenge? It's BUTTONS AND BOWS!  Come along and play with us! Thanks for stopping by today~!

Stamps: The {Stamps} of Life With Stephanie Barnard

Paper: Quite Contrary DP, Poptone Sweet Tooth

Ink: Stephanie's Premium (TSOL)

Accessories: buttons (Buttons Galore from RRR), ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), umbrella and cloud dies (TSOL)

RRR Challenge #69 'Buttons & Bows' Theme

Hello everyone! It's time for a new challenge here at Really Reasonable Ribbon. Please scroll down to the next post for the winners of the last challenge.

The theme for Challenge #69 is Buttons & Bows. Create a card, layout, multi media piece, tag, ATC, hair bow, you name it. Just be sure to follow the theme above and use ribbon/lace or trim somewhere on your project.

  

*******************

 

Here is a little inspiration from our design team for challenge #69 to get you started. All of the sample projects feature ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

 

Tosha - Our April Guest Designer

Gloria

Cheryl

Cheryl

Bonnie

 

 

Ginny

 

 

Misty

 

 

************************
 

Now, let's see your Buttons & Bows creations! We will be selecting our top three favorite projects along with a random winner from all the entries to win a $10 gift certificate to Really Reasonable Ribbon. How cool is that!!! We will be announcing the winners on April 15th.

Here's what you need to do:

* Create a new project using the posted theme. A layout, card, ATC, home decor item, hair bow, or anything your can think of.

* You may enter as many times as you like, but you're asked to provide newly designed projects. No back-linking please.

* All projects must also include some sort of ribbon/lace/trim.

* Post your project on your blog or an online gallery (using code RRR69) and link it here with the Inlinkz tool below. Please provide a direct link to your post, not an entire blog.

* You have until April 12th at 11:59 PM Eastern time to enter your projects. Thanks so much for playing and good luck.

 PLEASE consider turning off your word verification.

It would be a great help to us if you would consider turning off your word verification if it's active on your blog. To do this is really easy and all you need to do is go to Customise > Settings > Comments > then scroll down to where it says comment moderation and select always (this won't stop anybody leaving you a comment but they won't show on your blog till you approve them). Then scroll down to show word verification for comments? and select No.

We love to visit your blogs and leave comments on all the terrific entries, but the word verification really slows us down. :o)

RRR Challenge #68 Winners!

 

 

Challenge #68 was lots of fun with our Flowers & Ribbon theme. We saw a wide variety of wonderful projects this time around. Many thanks to all who participated.

Our top three runners-up for Challenge #68 in no particular order are:

 

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

 

 

E. T.

 

 

Alyce

 

Congratulations to our top 3 for a job well done. Grab your "I made the RRR Top 3" badge (located in the left column of the blog) and display it with pride. You ladies did a fantastic job!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Now, we have a $10 prize today, and it's a random drawing from all our entries. The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to Really Reasonable Ribbon.

And the winning number is........

Random Integer Generator
Here is your random number:  67
Timestamp:  2013-03-30  22:29:14 UTC

Diana Nguyen

 

 

Congratulations Diana! Send us an email with your complete shipping information using the contact button above and we'll get your prize right out to you.

Thanks again to everyone who played along with us on our Flowers & Ribbon themed Challenge.  I hope to see you all back again for Challenge #69 which is now up and running.

~ Bonnie Garby ~