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Sunday 23 May 2010

A Riot of Ribbons

I must admit that this challenge at Bah Humbug really made me think. After all, we all use ribbon in some form or other on our cards; tying around the spine, bows, knots, threading etc etc.

So, how to make it a bit different? After a while of ruminating on this I came up with the idea of making my "backing paper" from ribbon weaving. I started with a square 6" white card blank and cut a piece of card 5 1/2" square and then started my ribbon weaving using some Christmas ribbon I had in my stash. When it was finished I adhered all the ends of the ribbon to the back and then used d/s tape to mount the piece on my base card.

The main image is from Creative Expressions and is a Umount Stylish 1 Christmas A5 stamp plate. This was coloured in pink for the robin and green for the branch and flourishes and clear embossed. I stamped the robin twice so I could give the image some depth by decoupaging it. The bottom of this was punched with a ribbon threader edge punch with a piece of ribbon threaded through and tied in a bow at the left hand side. The sentiment is from the same stamp set cut out using my SU oval punches. I added some pink gems for the bird's eye, at the side and on the flourishes and then used a small piece of left over ribbon and a brad on the top right.

I'm also entering this card in Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club challenge - #18 Anything Christmas.

Thanks for looking.

8 comments:

  1. Great idea and it also uses up all those strips of paper. Pretty card

    Anne

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  2. Unusual color combo for Christmas, but I like it! Thank you for playing with us at Susie and Vikki's christmas club!

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  3. wow just fabulous - your ribbon weaving makes it really special. A great effect and worth the effort.
    Ann xxx
    Bah! Humbug! DT

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  4. Brilliant effect. Thank you for joining us at Bah! Humbug! this week.

    Luv'n'Stuff
    Max
    xx
    Bah! Humbug!DT

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  5. Hello Karen

    What an amazing idea to use ribbon as a background, just perfect for our challange.
    I do like your robin and love your use of the little sparklies.

    Thank you for joining us at Bah! Humbug!

    luv
    irene
    xxxx

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  6. I like your card very much. Love the robin and the twig

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  7. This is Beautiful totally stunning and so pretty in pink
    Thanks for joining us at the Christmas club this week
    Hugs Susie & Vikki

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  8. Great idea made a lovely card. You have been busy while I have been away some gorgeous work

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