Vintage Botany Card

 Hello everyone, and Happy Monday to you all! Today's card was created for Really Reasonable Ribbon using their beautiful satins. This one is the Satin with Grosgrain Edge, and it's absolutely gorgeous! I love how easy the bows come together using this ribbon. To see all the Satins please visit the Really Reasonable Ribbon Store here.

To create this card here, I chose to use the new Vintage Botany collection from Club Scrap. So design paper, stamps, and stencils are all from one collection. I knew Really Reasonable Ribbon would have the perfect ribbon to go with this kit, so I chose the satin with grosgrain edge, and it's perfect. RRR also has some other beautiful satins and taffetas that match perfectly. LOVE this!!

Next I colored my image with Copic markers R85 & RV11 for the flowers, then for the greenery I chose YG03 & G99 they worked perfectly! For the center of the big flower I used some Stickles in the color of fruit punch. I have had my Stickles for about 9 1/2 years, and they still work perfectly.

I added sewing with my machine, in a light pink, and then added gel dots in white.

My layers are popped with RRR Foam Squares and the layers were glued together before sewing using a small piece of Scor-Tape, both of these can be found at Really Reasonable Ribbon under adhesives

I hope you enjoyed my post for today, as I enjoyed creating this card to share with you all! Please leave a comment letting me know what you think :)

Hugs to all,
Cheryl

So Proud by Jenn Cochran

Hello to all the RRR friends and fans!  Jenn here and I am so excited to have you join me today.   Remember the fun Starburst card from our hop on the 13th?  Well, as promised I have a Tell All Video showing you the measurements on how I made the sometimes difficult card.    1st I want to show you a pretty bow I tied on a vase for a gift.  It features the Delicate Stitched Satin ribbon in Lemon.  

Ok now for my Tell All Video for this fun Sunburst Card.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  Let me know what you think of the video.  If you have any questions, leave me a comment on YouTube and I will get it answered.

JENN

Fall Is Here! By Jenn Cochran

Happy Saturday RRR friends and followers.  Jenn here blogging for you today!  Well it is now officially fall and I feel like I should avoid sharing any more summery themed projects.  I have now accepted that I will be using fall colors and images!  LOL!!!  

So excited to say "I have conquered the "Bow It All" from Zutter".  If you have yet to check it out and you LOVE making bows.  It is the BOMB!  Bonnie is now selling them here at RRR.  Click HERE for product details and pricing.

This bow is made using ribbon from the September Ribbon Club.  It is the Satin with Grosgrain Edge Cappuccino. 

This image is from The Paper Nest Dolls- Pilgrim Owen.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

For more RRR projects by me, click HERE.

JENN

Supplies:
Ribbon: RRR-Satin with Grosgrain Edge Cappuccino
Image: The Paper Nest Dolls: Pilgrim Owen
Paper: Authentique-Thankful
Copics:
E-31,34,37,55,59,57
R-000,22,24,27,29
YR-000,02,07,09,68
N-0,2,4,6
Y-000,15,19
C-2
100

An Elegant Brooch for the Holidays

  Hello, friends!  Hope your holiday crafting is going well.  Just this week I had the great pleasure of a visit from my mother.  There was quite a bit of crafting and knitting while chatting and laughing until we cried type of activity, and I'm so grateful for the time we had together.  Today I'm going to share with you one of the results of our crafting adventures.    

  That's my tiny little Pupusa that I rescued off the streets of East LA a little less than two years ago.   We have no idea what mix of breeds she is made up of - chihuahua, yorkie, mexican hairless perhaps?  Whatever the mix, she's absolutely precious to me and has the most crazy entertaining personality that I've ever encountered in a dog.     Dressing this dog up totally cracks me up!  She's a tad over seven pounds and with little body hair, sweaters are a practical necessity.  Luckily, she's so tiny, I never need more than one skein of yarn for her outfits!  This sweater was pretty basic (it had to be because I'm a very novice knitter), so I decided to add a festive brooch haha!  

Isn't she a fabulous model? The bronze flower featured on  this card that I recently shared here on the RRR blog, pic below....

was made using the same easy technique.  Here's the tutorial.

For my brooch, first I chose a beautiful Satin with Grosgrain Edge in Burgundy that is currently available in the Really Reasonable Ribbon shop. I thought it would make an elegant doggie brooch for the holidays paired with a gold fleur de lys button from my stash.

 I cut lengths of this luxurious fiber approximately 1 1/2 in. long, notching one end and then cutting the other end straight.

Then, using a needle and thread, I stitched through my first petal as such.

You could also send it through your sewing machine on its widest setting.  I stitched all the pieces together as shown below.

Then I pulled my thread tight, which gathered the bloom into its final shape, and knotted the circle well to close.

At this stage, you could easily hot glue a button in the center and simultaneously affix to a card or some other project.  As my plan was to make a removable brooch pin, I sewed a piece of felt to the bottom and stitched my button through the top.

Then I pinned it to the sweater I had made.  This way, when it's time to wash the sweater, I can easily remove the pin.

***NOTE*** This pin should be worn only while under human supervision!

  What a face on this one and how much joy and love she brings to our lives.  Hope you enjoyed my project - please visit me on my blog for more inspirations! -Vivian