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Brenda Weaver - Sweet Paper Treats - Makeover Monday Ribbon Scraps
(Brenda has several different ideas - one idea is very similar to the butterfly scraps one, but there are more ideas - scroll down for a looky)
Oh you have started a fantastic thread here. I love seeing everyone's samples. Great inspiration!!!! Going through my gallery made me realize I have become a one trick pony. I mostly tie knots. Thanks for making me see other possibilities I have forgotten.
Here are a few of my cards showing ribbon ideas: BORDER using small ribbon scraps WITH EYELETS this was in place of a panel on a sketch (i love eyelets) BUTTONS AND BOWS (I made a knot then stitched my buttons to it) FRINGE (tied ribbon through my punched border) THREADED EYELET (ribbon threaded through small hole so it holds by itself) SMALL PURSE (uses a scrap piece of ribbon and round label punch, I knot the ends in front)
anyone of you member of a ribbon club. Are they the money worth.?
Home Sew, Inc. PO Box 4099, Bethlehem, Pa. 01818 has a ribbon sample club that only cost $1 to join. They send a big assortment of ribbon, trims, laces and elastics to you 3 times a year. I was a member many,many years ago and just loved getting these samples. Home Sew has been in business for over 50 years, so they are pretty reliable. Their ribbons in their catalog are very reasonably priced also, if you need bigger amounts.
__________________ Beth: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's gift, that's why it's called the present.
My Gallery CAS Summer 2011,2012,2014 Challenge - Guest Designer
Home Sew also has a great web site. I just Googled it and it comes right up.
__________________ Beth: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's gift, that's why it's called the present.
My Gallery CAS Summer 2011,2012,2014 Challenge - Guest Designer
If you Google triaxial weaving, there are quite a few sites that will give you directions and different variations. Here is just one that shows a good picture.
__________________ Beth: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's gift, that's why it's called the present.
My Gallery CAS Summer 2011,2012,2014 Challenge - Guest Designer
Heating it with a heat gun, if you do vintage cards: This one is a combined flower as suggested above with a heat gun to crinkle the ends. Narrow ribbon, big button Ribbon Frame (instructions in TLC212)
With the lists above being posts to cards rather than ideas, I just don't have time before work to check if I am making double suggestions. Green ribbon, not to wide, makes a great stem for a big flower.
And I also don't have time to find the cards I am looking for in my gallery, but it looks great threaded through some of the lacier punches, or the scallop borders with eyelet holes in them.
I'll be back after work to check out some of the other links above .
I tried finding the instructions for the Ribbon Frame TLC212, but had no luck. I keep finding beautiful examples, but no "how-to". Can you help me?
easiest way I think might be to do a search in the search bar to the left. type in tlc212 and see what you come up with, and do the search in forums not gallery.
__________________ Beth: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's gift, that's why it's called the present.
My Gallery CAS Summer 2011,2012,2014 Challenge - Guest Designer
Gosh, I hadn't realise how many different ways you can use ribbon - I'm pretty much a one-trick-pony too.
One thing that I do quite a bit, but isn't anything fancy - it's just to add a bit of interest, is add a little scrap of ribbon in a different colour when I am tying a knot. Is good for using up little scraps that I just can't seem to throw away!! See my two examples here:
Here is one I just did using the wide 1 1/4 SU grosgrain ribbon- frayed one edge and used the part I pulled out to thread a button. Kitty Stamp: Fall Apples
Here is one I just did using the wide 1 1/4 SU grosgrain ribbon- frayed one edge and used the part I pulled out to thread a button. Kitty Stamp: Fall Apples
Hi Betty,
LOVE what you did with the ribbon - so clever and a very pretty effect. TFS!
