Ribbon Blossom Bookmark

Hi Stampers!

Today we have a really fun challenge this week over at our Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog called Fun With Ribbons. All you have to do to play along is create a project that uses ribbon on it! You can get creative with it, or use it the standard way with a bow (which is super hard for me - LOL)!

This week we are also being sponsored by The Paper Shelter who has the absolute CUTEST Digi Stamp sets on the planet! They are offering a $20.00 Gift Voucher to our Winner! So if you play along...you could receive that awesome prize PLUS a Gift voucher to Loves Rubberstamps. Either $10.00 or $20.00 depending on what stamp you use! So it is an awesome week to play along!

For my Inspiration project I decided to create a ribbon bookmark that features one of the super cute images from our sponsor!

Here is my bookmark laying flat! I can tell you that this sucker was HARD to photograph because the ribbon isn't stiff. This cute image I used is from The Paper Shelter and it is called Gothic and Modern. I colored her using my spectrum noir markers and had printed her out onto crafters companion ultra smooth white cardstock that is designed to use with alcohol ink markers.

After coloring her up I cut her out using my colluzzle and then layered her on top of silver glitter paper. I sandwiched my ribbon between the layers. Now... my normal double sided adhesive wouldn't stick to the glitter paper very well. Holly had recommended that I try the Best Glue Ever from ScrapPerfect quite awhile ago and she had told me that when you glue layers with it - it didn't wrinkle your paper all up. I decided to try it and it worked amazing! No wrinkles or anything and it really sticks to that glitter paper! I also used it to sandwich my two other pieces onto my ribbon.

I used the stamp set that comes in the My Favorite Things Die-Namics Bookmark & matching stamp set for the sentiment. I stamped it and then cute each word out and layered them using glue dots.

Here is a close up of my bookmark main panel.

To really get creative with my ribbon I decided to attempt a ribbon blossom for the top piece that sticks out of your book. You are supposed to use about 6" long ribbon strips tied together, however I didn't want my flower super huge. I am always skimpy with ribbon because I hate wasting it ...so I tried cutting mine about  3 inches. Well...you need to make them 6" because they are super hard to knot otherwise! This was my first attempt at these ribbon blossoms so I will know next time to not skimp on my ribbon - LOL! Since I had already cut them all I decided to go ahead and use it. It didn't turn out super awesome, but it will work for me :)

Here is a look at my bookmark doing it's job...

Kind of looks like a ribbon blob mess...but I tried - LOL! Here is one last look at the whole thing...

I hope you liked my project! I think I will be making some bookmarks for some christmas gifts...but next time I won't be skimpy with my ribbon for my blossom - LOL!

Here is my TOP TIP - for the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - My purple gingham ribbon that I used kept wanting to fray at the ends and I had to keep trimming them down. So what I did was I took my heat gun and got it nice and hot and then just blew it on my ribbon ends to melt them just a tad, and it stopped the fraying :)
Thanks for stopping and remember...if you make a project with ribbon on it - we wanna see it so play along in our challenge!

Happy Stampin!
Laura

I will be entering this in the Following Challenges:

Can You Digi It? - Challenge 23 CAS with Inspiration Board - Inspired by colors Upper Right Corner
Jackson's Digital Expressions - Challenge 32 CAS
Tuesday Alchemy - Challenge 41 - Anything But a Card
Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 90 - Kids & Teens
Artsistic Inspirations - Challenge 16 - Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - Challenge #15 - For the Kids
Creative Stamp Friends - Favorite Colors - Silver & Purple
Paper Playtime - Challenge 89 - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC66 - Anything But a Card
Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 45 - Anything Goes
The Paper Players - Challenge #122 - LeAnne's Clean & Simple Silver or Gold
The Squirrel and the Fox - Challenge 31 Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - November Colour Challenge - Lavender Hues
Craft Punked - Week 46 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge Blog - Challenge #159 - Let's Have Sparkle
Stamping Dragon Challenge - So Cute
Forever Friends Challenge - #49 - Use Ribbon or Twine
My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp Challenges - Anything Cute
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Sassy Studio Designs - Challenge 151 - No patterned paper
All That Scraps - ABC Challenge - Used My Favorite Things Bookmark Die-Namics Stamp Set for Sentiment