Kirsty's Challenege for erm, April!

Im a bit late to the party but here is my layouts incorporating Marions challenge (create a project using Ribbon as a background).  Except I used buttons as well - all of the ribbon and buttons can be found at Fantastic Ribbons itself.

 

Don't forget to enter our competition below for the chance to win some bakers twine!

Divine Twine

Well plenty of you asked for it and guess what?  We listened!
Be enchanted with our vintage feel twine in a range of five colours:

 

Perfect for threading through buttons, wrapping around your papercraft projects, tying sweet parcels and pawing over, like you might do with your ribbons!

We have a pack of each colour to give away to one lucky winner.  All you have to do is leave your name and we will pick a winner at the weekend.

SJ's challenge project

SJ comes back to us this month with these sweet little ideas.  As you know, us crafters tend to trim a project with a tie or bow with our ribbons.  And if you are anything like me, you have reels of them just begging to be used way out of your comfort zone.

This months ribbon challenge is to incorporate your ribbons as a background.  I hope you love SJ's project as much as I do:

Ive got the urge to finish my project now!

Hels background challenge

This month, Marion set a challenge using ribbon as a background.  This is what Hels conjured up:

...Backgrounds! Oh yesh,use ribbons as a background. So, there I was, scratching my bonce and wondering what on earth I was going to come up with... I mean, after all, I am no cardmaker... and I don't do pretty or clean or neat... so... I thunked outside the ...erm... ribbon... and came up with this tag:





I used a couple of different ribbons and lace for my design... and coloured them with Distress Stains to tone them down a smidge. I then got it into my head that I would do some weaving... oh ho! How difficult was that... tis a good job that I wasn't doing that there weaving in the presence of anyone... they would have had a right old laugh Anyways... I did it... I weaved and woved... and did some stapling with a Tiny Attacher and added some Brads for a bit of extra texture. The tag was finished with a smidge of stamping, some Idea-ology and a beautiful paper flower.


I love the results, don't you?

Don't forget to check out our post below to win a chance to design your own WASHI TAPE!

Fantastic Ribbons launching Washi Tape

Washi tape has been on Keith and Ben's radar for a while now and within the next few weeks you will be able to snap these GORGEOUS tapes from their fantastic store. Washi tape, if you didn't know is decorative tape used in card making and scrap booking (especially with the buzzing trend of Smash books), packaging and mixed media art. There are simply hundreds of designs to choose from but Keith and Ben have narrowed some down to popular styles for you:







But that's not all! OH NO! Keith and Ben want to offer ONE lucky winner a chance to design a washi tape of their own for the Fantastic Ribbons store. That lucky winner will receive 10 rolls of their own design to do with as they wish and have a claim to fame on the Fantastic Ribbons website! Don't worry if you cannot draw digitally, either. The lucky winner need only sketch the design and Kirsty Wiseman will interpret the final design for him/her (with you making the final approval once its drawn!).

All you have to do is join the mailing list HERE (top right of the page) and leave a comment below on how best you might use Washi Tapes, once they hit the Fantastic Ribbons shelves.

Excited much?
So what are you waiting for?

This months challenge by Marion

Marion chose this months challenge, it a fab idea....I can't wait for my turn. Here is what she did and how she did it!

Oh Boy..... I love these ribbons, in fact I just LOVE RIBBONS !!!!!
This month's challenge is about Backgrounds, that's right, how to use your ribbons to make a background.

Very rarely do I do a DL card, but I felt this just "worked"
Start off with a DL base card, next taking some Bazzill Kraft I die cut two hearts from a piece just smaller than the base card.

Then taking 3 of your favourite ribbons from your Fantastic Ribbons stash, put some adhesive on the back of the heart outline and start sticking your ribbon strips on, this is fab for using up all those little bits and pieces that "we can't possibly throw away"

It looks a bit scruffy from the back, but don't worry that's going to be covered !! To highlight the hearts and give them a little vintage feel, go around the edge (on the front) with little white "stitches"

Tie a piece of ribbon and twine to the front of the Kraft and adhere to the white card base. Finishing off with a gorgeous button, well it would be rude not to !!! My only dilemma here was what button to choose...

At the moment I'm into teals and greens so I used :-
Centre Stitch 54062
Stitched Grosgrain 677872
Gingham 54078
But this would work for soooo many colours, so go get your ribbons and start creating
Hugs
Marion xxx

And the winner of the ribbons is

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Congrats my friend, the ribbons will be yours as soon as I have your address x