Ribbon roses

I'm not very good with tutorials but will attempt to show you how to make a ribbon rose. It's actually very easy and I love the finished embellishment.

Supplies needed:

-ribbon, I used 24 inches of Riding Hood Red taffeta 3/8" wide

(you could also used strips of fabric or felt)

-3x3 piece of cardstock, perferrable the same color as the ribbon

-sticky sheet or strips

-scissors

Cut your sticky sheet the size of your cardstock and stick on.

You can also use strips of 2 sided tape, just make sure you cover the entire surface.

Remove tape backing that's in front or would it be called the fronting? hmmm, anyway, peel off the top to make it sticky.

Starting in the middle, stick one end of your ribbon down.

Twist the ribbon while going in circles around the middle of the flower.

It's up to you how twisty you want your flower to be so experiment and see what you like.

Keep twisting and turning and pressing the ribbon into the tape.

Keep going until you have your flower to the size you want.

Tuck the end of your ribbon underneath and press into the tape. It should now look something like this.

Another angle.

Cut the extra cardstock off as close to the ribbon as possible. This will make your scissors super sticky!

You can leave it like this or embellish with a brad/button/whatever you want. Here I used a clear brad.

With 24 inches of ribbon my flower ended up being approx. 2 inches wide.

If you try this I would love to see your flower and how you used it!

total change of plans

Okay so not so much for the plans but the date.
I've bumped scrapday to March, so do you want it the 6th or 13th?
Sorry about this but it was kinda out of my control.
Please comment, call or email me for your choice of date and I'll pick the majority vote. :)

glitter

A friend of mine was asking about glitter. Well there are lots of ways to use the wonderful stuff.

On this first card I stamped the large rose onto watercolor paper with stazon ink. Then used the crayons and aqua painters to color it in. After I cut out the flower I stuck it onto sticky sheet and cut again. I peeled off the second layer of backing and added dazzling diamonds to it. Then I adhered it to the card. Looks pretty cool.

For this next card I punched out a piece of cardstock with the ornament punch and traced it onto the sticky sheet and cut out. I cut off the bottom of the ornament to turn it into a vase. I peeled off the top layer of backing and punched a little flower out of it, then stuck the flower backing onto the middle of the vase. Added brown glitter, tapped off extra. Peeled off the flower and added pink glitter. Then made my card. I thought it turned out pretty cool. I think for this one they call it burnished velvet.

*scrapbook day, looks like people are leaning towards the 13th of Feb. Any other comments on the date? Let me know.

Scrap Day?!

I'm planning my annual scrapday and looking at the first or second Saturday in February.
What works best for you? Please let me know!!

The holidays are over

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and rang in the New Year with lots of cheer!

With the new year it also means some new catalogs. The mini catalog and SAB catalog are now available. Woohoo!! You can view them online at www.stampinup.ca or call me to see them IRL! Now is a great time to book your workshop, but my calendar is starting to fill so call soon.