Unicorn Wishes and Curly Ribbon Dreams

Hello friends and happy Monday to you! Linsey here and today I have a sweet little card to share and a fun ribbon technique that you might want to try! It is often referred to as making curly/corky or corkscrew ribbon--and guess what? It is so easy! Here's my card and I hope it adds a bit of sparkle and magic to your day!

Now, here's the super simple steps to making your own corkscrew ribbon strips...
First, pick your ribbon. I used this gorgeous Hyacinth Satin with Grosgrain Edge. Take a wooden rod or wooden spoons and use the handles to wrap your ribbon around, securing with a clothes pin at both ends. Then bake in a preheated 275 degree oven for 35 minutes (longer for thicker ribbon). Finally, spray lightly with spray starch while still wrapped and let cool.

Now unwrap and enjoy the all the fun of corkscrew ribbon!!!

Easy, right? I told you so! Just imagine all the things you can make using fun corky ribbon and get curling!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Happy crafting!

Dreams

Cherry here today! Happy Super Bowl Sunday.  I will be quick here..don't want to distract anyone from the guacamole dip.  I have two feel good cards to share.

Both cards have  to do with following your path.  Been thinking a lot about that in the new year.  I hope to direct myself more deliberately towards my dreams.   Allowing myself more time to walk that path.   How about you?

 Love the bright happy colors in these cards.  I used this wonderful orange and white stripe ribbon   that I have just fallen in love with.  I usually don't gravitate towards orange.  Loving it right now.

Well folks that is it for me!  Hugs, Cherry

Friends

Hello everyone, Cheryl here with a sweet card I created for Really Reasonable Ribbon using their BEAUTIFUL Satin Ribbon & Gorgeous Embellishments. I LOVE the way this card turned out , as everything worked so well together.

On my card here, I chose to use this beautiful Winter Birds tag designed by Ginny. I absolutely love the darling bird, it's beautiful and perfect for layering!!! You can find it here in her Etsy Shop. I cut it out and distressed it. Then I added some flowers that I created using Cheery Lynn dies & My glass flower technique that can be found here. I did cut some branches using a branch punch, and added in Really Reasonable Ribbons Antique bronze leaf charms.  I love how these look on here.

For my big bow, I chose to use Really Reasonable Ribbons Satin, and I love all the different types of satin you can choose from at RRR. I used a gold and a wine, they match perfect for my card today.

For embellishments, I chose to use the flat backed pearls, love using them on my bows and layers of my cards. I also will use them in the center of flowers, but on these flowers I chose some vintage beads.. for my tag and friends tag.  I used the foam tabs to give a 3-D look.

I hope you enjoyed my post for today! Thank you for stopping by, and have a super awesome day!
Hugs,
Cheryl

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #157 - Hearts Theme with Ribbon or Trim

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 #157 is Hearts.

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.

  

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Here is a little inspiration from our design team for challenge #157 to get you started.  All of the sample projects feature ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Sheila

Kathy

Karen

Bonnie

Cherry

Cheryl

Linsey

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Now, let's see your Heart creations! 

We will be selecting our top three favorite projects to feature, so stop back on February 17th to see our picks along with our next challenge theme. 

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 you can think of provided it fits the weekly theme.

* You may enter up to 6 projects, but you're asked to provide newly designed projects. No back-linking please.

* All projects must also include some sort of ribbon, lace or trim.
* A maximum of 6 entries per person per challenge please.

* Post your project on your blog or an online gallery (using code RRR157) and link it here with the Inlinkz tool below. Please provide a direct link to your post, not an entire blog.

* You have until Wednesday, February 15th at 11:59 PM Eastern time to enter your projects. Thanks so much for playing and good luck.

 

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Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #156 Winners!

Challenge #156 was lots of fun with our Red and/or Pink theme. 

We saw a wide variety of wonderful projects this time around. Many thanks to all who participated.

Our top three picks for Challenge #156 in no particular order are:

Shoregirl's Creations

Mary Marsh

Diane H

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

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Thanks again to everyone who played along with us on our Red and/or Pink themed Challenge.  I hope to see you all back again for Challenge #157 which is now up and running.

~ Bonnie Garby ~

Birthday Wishes

Hi there fellow ribbon lovers!  Today I have a pretty birthday card to share using a couple of the ribbons from the January Ribbon Club Assortment from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Why talk about the January Ribbon Club Assortment in February?  

Well, you either have the assortment already if you are a member, OR if you are not, you can enroll now and start with the January/February Ribbon Club combo for a special low price!

The January assortment is themed for Valentine's Day, but as you can see, only one ribbon has hearts.  The rest of the ribbon can be used for a variety of different projects and red and white make a striking color palette.

Not a member yet?

JOIN TODAY! 

The January assortment has 9 styles and 17 yards of ribbon and trim and the February assortment has 9 styles and 18 yards of ribbon.  Each monthly assortment is a holiday or color themed assortment of ribbon.  What a fun way to build your ribbon stash and try new ribbon styles.

My perky bow was made on my Bow-it-All V3.0 using the red bold diamond print ribbon from the January Ribbon Club Assortment.

For a video tutorial on how to create this very versatile bow, please click HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  For more information on the other products used on my card, please visit my Make Time to Craft Blog.

~ Bonnie ~

Believe & Love Faith Greeting Card

Happy first of the month RRR Peeps!  You know it's my day to share a project created with the new Ribbon Club Assortment. This month it's a Pink and Green Mix which is sooo perfect to go with some new papers I just got and I am a happy crafter!

Isn't that a lovely bright cheerful collection??? It inspired this card......

I couldn't have gotten a better match if I picked the ribbons out myself.   This card has layers of patterned papers and a garden of flowers and a lovely faith or inspirational journal card.

I'm not even going to try to tell you that I tried to limit the flowers I added here....because clearly more is better anyway.

I layered the ribbons over top of the already busy paper and I love it that much more.

Just a little snippet of the pink ribbon here cut at an angle and tucked under the flowers is just the right touch.  Altered and layered chipboard frames are fairly neutral so as to compliment and not compete with the busy papers.

OMGosh OMGosh OMGosh I added some sparkly bits with the clear glass beads which adds sooo much texture and shine.

This busy combination required a fair amount of spacers between the layers to keep everything from getting jumbled up.   The bright cheerful colors of this card along with the inspirational sentiment just makes me so happy : )

Okay, that's all for me. Wishing all of you a happy and productive day with lots of time to be creative : ) G