Thursday, December 20, 2012

Tied up in Knots - Really Reasonable Ribbon Tutorial

I have a post and tutorial up at Really Reasonable Ribbon today, so stop by and say hi and maybe do a little holiday shopping while you are over there.

I had a couple of questions about how I tied the ribbon on tag 18 for my Snowflake & Ribbon Tag Advent Calendar you can see here.




This ribbon wreath is made by tying 5 simple knots in the same direction. If you are a visual learner like me, head over to RRR and take a look at the step by step photos I have posted there.

The simple knot is a great way to manipulate ribbon into shapes on your cards. This same technique is used to create this heart out of the double-faced hot pink satin ribbon. A few more details and the steps are over at RRR.




The designer paper is from the Basic Grey Kissing Booth line, The sentiment panel is made up of a Spellbinders Label Ten, Fiskar's heart punches and a PTI sentiment and die.

Just to really demonstrate the versatility of this technique, I knotted a piece of the red diagonal stripe ribbon into a chevron for this card.




I want to highlight the chevron shape, and knew the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge this week is to feature scoring, so scored another chevron line below & above the ribbon. A piece of red cardstock is also rough cut with the chevron shape to border the bottom of the card. The sentiment is created with LilyBee Alphabet stickers and a punched heart.



CFC82: Create a CAS project that features scoring...
                                        and no, the fold on your card does not count *wink*


You can really see the score line here.




Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

7 comments:

  1. Loved your tutorial on the RRR blog today and the knotting in a chevron shape on your card above it great!!

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  2. Brilliant ideas for ribbon. Thanks for turning me on to that ribbon store. I've already ordered twice. And, I am not too far from you, if you would like to borrow my snow globe stuff, or have me send you some stamped die cuts, just say the word.

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  3. Oh my gosh Jacquie you are making wonderful creative projects with this ribbon. I will have to check out this ribbon place.

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  4. Awesome card! I really love the way you knotted the ribbon too. So glad you got inky with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  5. What fun ways you've show to work with ribbon! Very clever. The knotted zig zag one is my favorite, I think, or the heart. Love them!

    And 130 wreaths?!? Oh my, you are so brave!!

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  6. Jacquie these are wonderful cards and I am off to check out the tutorial! You are soooo creative my dear!
    Merry Christmas!
    Jill

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