[DYSU] Challenge #56 - Ribbon

Hello everyone! It's Thursday, one day closer to the end of the week! I can't wait for this weekend, since I will be meeting up with my brother and spending some quality time. Also, I have a scrapping date with one of my girl friends and I will be mass producing my "Thanks So Much" mini cards for Project 30. I'll post pics when they are done.

In the meantime, this week at DYSU we are encouraging you to use your Ribbon stash. I'm one of those guilty ones that loves buying it and then I forget to use them in cards. So I went all out and picked out the pretty reds and pinks to use on a Valentine's card. I hope it tickles!

The stamps for the background are from my favorite company Waltzingmouse Stamps


Stamps: (Dainty Doilies, Seasons of Love - Tags) Waltzingmouse Stamps
Paper: (Paper Basics Card Stock - Vintage Creme) Papertrey Ink
Ink: (Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Antique Linen) Ranger; (Versamark) Tsukineko
Embellishments: (Nestabilities - Classic Hearts) Spellbinders; (Perfect Pearls - Perfect Gold) Ranger; (Ribbon 'O Spool - Red) Offray; (Basic Basic - Red) Celebrate It; (Trim - Pink with Hearts) Recollections; (5/8" Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon - Pure Poppy) Papertrey Ink

This took me a couple of tries to figure the ribbon weaving out, because I'm a neat freak. I need everything to be nicely glued down and aligned. My first step was to pick out ribbon with fun textures and designs; then test them next to each other to see how it looks. Then I cut out the window on my card with the heart; traced the heart onto a scrap card stock that would become the backing to my window. The good thing about tracing the heart is that every inch of that part should be covered with ribbon. I started cutting strips to size and glueing one end of the ribbon down.



Then I played around with different kinds of ribbon to weave. I didn't like the look  of weaving the 5/8" ribbon in, so I pulled out some 1/8" pink ribbon. I like how it segments the ribbon into many different parts, so I stuck with this look. With care, I wove in the ribbon and made sure to glue down each top and bottom of my 1/8" ribbon as I went. Weaving is significantly easier if you only glue down one side of the ribbon, allowing me to lift the bigger ribbons and scoot the 1/8" band into position. Surprisingly, it still looks like an ugly duckling, but once the heart window is positioned over it, no one has to know ;)



Here is what it looks like after you cover it up and and glue the window into place. Nifty, right?



If I had enough foresight I would have added the distress ink and the perfect pearls before glueing the top part on. But I often find myself "done" and then wondering what else is missing and whipping out another round of supplies...Anyone else craft like that?

After a round of watermarked doilies and perfect pearls to dust on and another round of careful sponging around the edges with Antique Linen, I call it done.



What nifty ideas do you have for your ribbon? If you need more inspiration make sure to check out the DTs samples.

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