Altered clipboard question

[3kiddos]

I am planning on making one of these as a teach gift and I love all the wonderful ideas found on this website. My question is about the ones with the cute little metal buckles. Does this make them hard to actually use? Wouldn't it be hard to write on a piece of paper with that buckle behind your paper?? Maybe I'm missing something so I thought I would ask here!
thanks
Stacy

[lbirus]

I totally second that question. I was going to pose that question too. I have my unaltered clip boards all ready to start the mass production process but... I have a mental block. How do your write on them with ribbon stretched across your writing surface and buckles in the way??? And...where does the ribbon go? Do you glue it down to the back? Help us please!

[kerryp]

I made one with a buckle that had to be usable, so what I did was put the buckle all the way over to the left side figuring that people very rarely write in the left margins of paper anyway. So far, it has worked out well.

Here's a link to it if you would like to see it.
Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
Good Luck!

[3kiddos]

That is a beautiful clipboard and I love the "buckle to the left side nobody writes there theory". So is the ribbon just stretched and glued around the back?
thanks for helping!
stacy

[kerryp]

Thank you, and yes, the ribbon is wrapped around the back, but I glued it down with Crystal Effects and if I do it again, I will use Sticky Strip to adhere it b/c the Crystal Effects started to bleed through the ribbon in places.