Unicorns and negatives

Just want to show you another way of using your 

negatives after die cutting and ribbons. If ribbons

are wide, like some of these new unicorn ribbons, 

make the ribbon image fit behind a square:

These were made for advent but can also easily be

used for any other occasion where you need a

number. And why not decorate with a bow, also

with unicorns! 

Materials:

Papper: Lawn Fawn "Hello Sunshine"

Die "for you": Lawn cuts

Wide unicorn ribbon:

Narron unicorn ribbon:

Buttons in different shapes HERE

Pearlstickers: Deco time

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La Vikinga

Puppy

Hi, Margreet here.

I created a card with the sweet digital stamp Miss You Puppy from Gerda Steiner Designs. 

I started with a scrapling of white cardstock and mat it with brown and white dotted papers. 
I tied some blue and white heart ribbon from Crafty Ribbons around it.

Printed the image and coloured it with Copics. 
Printed it again on dotted DP. 
I fussy cut the cute dog and adhered it with foam on the DP version.
Some bone buttons from Crafty Ribbons to finish it off.

xxx Margreet

Monster cards with buttons

Hi, Margreet here.

 I have made 2 cards for Catch The Bug, as they are celebrating their 9th anniversary.

I will show my cards here because I thought it was fun to use some Crafty Ribbons buttons on it.

I wish you a happy Sunday!

xxx Margreet

Muddy Paws

Good Morning

Crafty Ribbons time again for me, Wendy L (Spanish Crafter) and here is a great card for pet lovers.

Gros grain ribbon with paw prints and tiny dog bone  buttons, aren't they cute?

Ribbon is called Muddy Paws available HERE and the buttons HERE all in the shop at

 Crafty Ribbons

There are allsorts of buttons available for animal lovers and ribbon too.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

Happy Christmas

Hi, Margreet here

showing you a card with the cute penguin of Gerda Steiner.

I used the beautiful Christmas velvet ribbon embossed with Happy Christmas and some lovely matching buttons, which you can find here.

Thanks for looking!

xxx Margreet

Caterpillar

Hi Margreet here.

Today I show you a card on which I used tree colors of RicRac and 2 buttons. 

That caterpillar button is so cute!

Have a great day!

xxx Margreet

Toadally Fun

Happy Sunday to you all
Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
YUM! YUM!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are four green speckled frogs!
GLUB! GLUB!

Have you seen all the cute ribbons in the Crafty Ribbons store

along with there fabulous buttons 

I created a trio of fun

The little bag was cut on my portrait and attatched the 

Animal Cuties jumping Frogs Ribbon

Loving this ribbon so much!

I just adore his sparkly crown, every Frog should own one

I then coloured two Frogs from 

Toadally in Love Set

these are from DigiStamp Boutique

They are a set of 3 frogs , a rock and also sentiments 

Well worth a nosey!

I added googly eyes for some extra fun

I used Graph'It Markers to colour up and then some chunky glitter

Finishing of attatching Ribbon and then those absolutly stunning fun buttons

Basics 2 Go Heart Bright Buttons

They were the perfect finish

 Don't forget to take a peek at my little video for lots more inspiration xx

Thank you for looking today
xx

Shadow Box Hanger

Happy Monday to you all Scatty Jan here today to share with you a Shadow box hanger I made for my Granddaughter

The ribbon I have used is from Crafty Ribbons and probably one of my much used

Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon ~ It comes in an array of beautiful colours - I have just restocked and treated myself to the Want It All such great value!!

For my project today I have used

I have used 

Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon ~ Garden Rose/White

&

Basics 2 Go Buttons Ladybird

Lots more details can be found on my blog

xx

gingerbread's house

Have you seen this new collection gingerbread house? It gave me a lot if inspiration.

I chose to make a house in felt, spotty buttons as windows, slices ribbon as door and lace roof's embellishment.

I have just add a gingerbread words ribbon to hang it . I don't know where at the moment but I will find!

I am beginning my christmas decorations very early this year...It's unusual for me!

Enjoy your week-end,

Christelle

Rainbow Notebook

Hi Laura here to day sharing a bright and colourful note book cover.

This is what I started with.  It is a very thick sturdy board front - it needs to be thick as I will be adding a fair bit of weight.  It was rather orange too so I added a few coats of gesso to neutralise it.

From then on it was just playing with buttons!  I lined up different sizes to minimise the gaps and suck them down with pin flair glue gel.  A glue gun would also work a treat but as I've said before - I can't be trusted with a glue gun!

It's quite important to have the edges as flush as possible so the buttons don't get caught and ping off.  Having said that, I made it a few years ago and all the buttons are still in place.

Anything goes as far as a pattern - I went rainbow but you could do an initial, a heart, a star, sports team colours...

You can find these buttons here along with a large range of others.  I used; turquoise, shocking,scarlet, orange, lemon and lime.

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Celebrating National Scrapbook Day with Ribbon!

Hi Guys, Laura here today.  Yesterday was National Scrapbook Day.  Lots of celebrations, challenges and inspiration started on Friday and continue through today, and some on to the end of the month.  I, for one, am keen to see more ribbon in scrapbooking.

I made this layout for a few challenges - one to use no patterned paper, one to include poetry and hearts, and the other to use ribbon.  I picked out the exclusive multicoloured Organza Swiss Dot ribbons and sieved through my button stash for some complimentary buttons.  I made some little rosettes/prize ribbons by folding small pieces of ribbon and sewing a button on top.

You can find the Swiss Dot ribbons here and a huge range of buttons here.

AN EASTER BONNET FOR EASTER SUNDAY!!!!

Hiya peeps and a Happy Easter to you!!

Here is todays Inspirational Blog post by me, Marg ..

And as it is Easter Sunday I went with a child's Easter bonnet 

brought from a well known discount book/childrens art store

and also the little chicks were from the same store.

All the ribbons & the button used are from Crafty Ribbons 

Also, Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog has an 

EASTER PARADE EVENT on over this weekend... 

As we have 12 people on our Design Team (DT) you will find 4 DT creations

on each of the 3 days, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday & Easter Monday.

You can back link to the previous days too. The object? Besides the 4 blog hops each day is to find the Easter Egg hidden on one of each of the 4 DT blogs. 

Some maybe easy to find, some a little bit harder. 

(Please scroll down for more photos)

The button is available from this selection pack:

Basics 2 Go Buttons - Flower Brights

The ribbons I used are:

Vintage Rose Organza - Purple/Purple

This design comes only in Sheer ribbon. 

25mm sheer printed on one side only, but as it is sheer ribbon you can see the design on both sides. Available in 1.5mtr bags of one colour or 10mtr rolls.

All of the rest that I used are Exclusive to Crafty Ribbons:

Nature Ribbon - Pansy

25mm grosgrain printed with 8 pansy images.  Printed on one side only

Nature Ribbon - Butterflies

25mm grosgrain printed with 4 butterfly images.  Printed on one side only

The butterflies are: 

Large White – Pieris brassicae

Peacock – Inachis io

Meadow Brown – Maniola jurtina

Peleides Blue Morpho - Morpho peleides – Central and South Americas

Ribbon designed by Laura Rumble

Animal Cuties - Ladybirds

9mm Grosgrain ribbon printed with ladybirds on one side only.

Three colours - Pink, Blue and White, 1mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Tulip Message Ribbon

40mm white Grosgrain ribbon printed with Tulip Messages on one side only.

The messages are: With Love, Thinking of You, Best Wishes & Happy Birthday.

1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Summer Festival - Grass Ribbon

Summer Festival ribbons - 15mm Grass Ribbon

Printed on 15mm grosgrain on one side only

Grass! A simple line of grass in 1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Summer Festival - Meadow Ribbon

Summer Festival ribbons - 25mm Flower Meadow Ribbon

Printed on 25mm grosgrain on one side only

Flower meadow in full bloom available in 1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Four Seasons

Hi Folks, Laura here today and oh, I enjoyed making this one...

I know it's not an original concept - the four seasons artwork has been done many times before but I still enjoyed interpreting it my way.  I started out with a four pack of mini canvasses, each painted a different shade of blue.

I then painted on a very unrealistically shaped tree!  I needed an even spread of branches to attach my button leaves to, so following the shape of a real tree didn't quite work!  I sorted through my button stash and pulled out blossom pinks and spring greens; rich leafy greens; and autumnal oranges, yellows, reds and browns.  I attached my buttons with matte gel medium, but any strong glue would be okay.

My favourite touch?  The autumn leaves that have dropped from the tree!

You can find Crafty Ribbons huge selection of buttons here!

Thank you for stopping by,
Laura

Button Bauble

Hello, Laura here today.  Do you ever feel like making something really colourful?  I did, and this happened...

First of all I coloured a polystyrene ball with some promarkers.  I wasn't a perfect rainbow but that didn't matter as most of it would be covered.  The bits that peep through look nicer if the are roughly the right colour rather than white.  Then I got my entire button stash out and played around, picking the right colours and sizes and generally having fun. 

When I had what I wanted laid out I started gluing them to the polystyrene with glue gel.  I stopped half way to let the glue dry.  This way I didn't have to worry about smudging and getting glue all over my fingers.  When the first half was dry I flipped it upside down and carried on.

To hang it I used a piece of swiss dot grosgrain and used both pins and glue gel to attach it.

All the buttons I used, along with the ribbon, are from Crafty Ribbons.

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Box Frame

Hi Everyone, Laura here today.

This white box frame has been hanging around in my 'to alter' pile for quite a while.  When I saw this meadow ribbon from the Summer Festival range I knew I wanted to extend it in to a picture...

I gathered a few buttons, my butterfly punch and a blue Inktense colouring pencil.

I cut a square of watercolour paper to fit the frame and very faintly drew some cloud lines and blended it out with a water brush.

I added the flower buttons as if they were growing from the ribbon.  I added one butterfly with dimensional glue and suspended the other on thread.

Quite simple, effective and very fun to make!
Thanks for looking,
Laura

Put to sea and dream...

I have a wish for you "may all your dreams come true" and don't stop dreaming!

I used nautical light house ribbon, nautical sea shell ribbon, and Basic 2 Go buttons stars

Have a very nice day!

Very soon there will have a giveaway on my blog, don't forget to subscribe my newsletter to know about it and perhaps win...

Christelle 

Dream Catcher

Hi, it's Laura here today with a ribbon-y dream catcher.
This is the most enjoyable project I have made in a while!  Isn't it fun?!

 

To make one you'll need a selection of ribbons and the inside of a roll of sticky tape!

I added strings of buttons and lace to my ribbon dangles.  I added some vellum feathers to the end of some of the ribbons.

The tape roll (I uses the inside of a 3mm double sided roll) is simply wrapped in ribbon until it is covered.  Then to make the web I followed some instructions I found online.  It is quite simple when you get going, but describing it is pretty tricky!

Here is a list of the ribbons and laces I used - all from Crafty Ribbons.

Chantilly Anna Lace
Chantilly Mollie Lace
Organza Swiss Dot White/White
3mm Island Blue
3mm Petal Peach
3mm Peach
3mm Blue Vapour
Swiss Dot Blue Vapour
Swiss Dot Island Blue/Peach
Heart Buttons
Basic Buttons Pastel
Basic Buttons Mixed
Basic Buttons Baby Blue

If there is enough interest I will put together a step by step guide... just leave me a comment or contact me through social media!
Laura

Hello

Hi Guys!  It's Laura here today.  I've been having a little experiment with some off cuts of vellum.  I made them in to tiny envelopes stuffed with buttons and sequins, to add to my layouts.

I tried to include every colour and pattern I used in the main cluster in the little side cluster.

Here you can see the vellum envelope along side a picture of Naughty Bun.

This layout came together really quickly using left over papers from Like For Ever kits, with buttons and pink dotty ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.

Thanks for stopping by!

On Your Engagement

Hi Guys, Laura here today.  I have a clean and simple engagement card to share...

I've used two pieces of Crafty Ribbons lace and teamed them with the tiny heart buttons that match the Christmas Family ribbon.  These buttons come in red, black and white and in two different sizes... I've just stocked up as they are a really useful stash item!

Let me know what you think in the comments...
Thanks for stopping by,
Laura