My Creative Scrapbook Ribbon Banner Tutorial

Hello scrappy friends!  It has been a pleasure to be guest designing for February and March over at My Creative Scrapbook and today I am sharing a tutorial on how to make a ribbon banner for this layout of my mom's 75th birthday.

Let's begin…

Cut the straw from the kit down to 4 inches in length and set aside.

Cut 3 strips of  red ribbon  1 1/2 inches in length and 4 strips of yellow ribbon 2 inches in length.  Using a strong adhesive glue one end of the ribbon

Wrap pieces of ribbon around straw

Alternate red and yellow ribbon strips and trim bottom edges to look like banners as shown.

Once all seven strips of ribbon are adhered to the straw sew across the ribbon just below the straw and secure edges.

Take a paper piercer and pierce a hole on each end of the straw

 and attach a large red brad to each end.

Take your hot glue gun and secure the finished ribbon banner to the top left hand corner of the layout.

Add two small yellow brads as shown and also wrap and tie a bow around each large red brad.

Your banner is done!

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Here's the Creative Kit:

We invite you to join us and experience the possibilities that our coordinated monthly kits offer. To purchase a kit, please visit our website, here.

Practical Scrappers April Sketch

Happy day!  Today at Practical Scrappers there is a new sketch for April and I immediately thought of something with a Spring or Easter theme.

I cut five strips of green card stock with my Silhouette Cameo to look like grass and layered it on the bottom of the layout.  I then cut some eggs and placed them randomly in the layers of grass.

 For the top right hand corner I used a doily and layered some die cuts, stickers and enamel dots.

I matted the photos in yellow paper and layered some die cuts and enamel dots.

Here is the sketch

I hope you are inspired to create.  Thanks for stopping by and check out what some of the other design team members created with the sketch here.  It's always interesting how it is interpreted differently by each person.

Black With 2 April Challenge

Hello scrappy friends!  Today I thought I would play along with a cool challenge over at Black With 2.   I came across this challenge blog and love it.  The April challenge was to use black card stock for the background, use the colours as shown as well as the sketch and word "inspiration" in the journaling.

Here is what I came up with for the challenge.

Now if the truth be known, I have always found purple to be a difficult colour to scrap and I didn't want my layout to look like halloween as these colours I tend to think make a good halloween layout.  I had a photo of an Iris that I photographed of my mom's garden and used that for my layout inspiration.

I cut the title, the scalloped circle, the little banner, a tag,  and the flower die cuts with my Silhouette Cameo and added some flowers that I have had in my stash for probably seven years or so.  I also added some twine and a sheer piece of navy blue ribbon to the tag and finished off the layout with some journaling with a white pen and some enamel dots and pearls.

It was a fun challenge and it definitely went outside my comfort zone.  I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

My Creative Scrapbook April Kits Sneak Peeks

Hello Scrappy friends!  Today at My Creative Scrapbook we are giving a sneak peek of all the April Kits.

Have a little peek or two at our April Main kit:

 by Guest Designer Stephanie Buice

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and another peek at the Main kit:

 (left side above, right side below)

Two-Page Layout by DT member Nicole Doiron

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and more Main Kit sneaks from the team:

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Next, a peek at our April Creative kit:

 by DT member Joan Bronson

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by Guest Designer Ginger Williams

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and more Creative kit sneaks from the team:

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Take some peeks at our April Limited Edition Kit!

by DT member Sandi Clarkson

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and more Limited Edition kit sneaks from the team:

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A little peek at our April Album kit:

by DT member Kristin Greenwood

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and a few more little peeks at our Album kit:

Remember to visit our Design Team Gallery on the 5th for the full reveal!
In the meantime, head over to the website and reserve your kits :)

Stuck?! Sketches April 1 Sketch

Happy April Fool's Day!  Today there is a new sketch to play with at Stuck?! Sketches.

I really had fun with this sketch and created a layout of my son and husband.

 I really enjoyed making a grungy, masculine layout with some really great papers from the Garage Days Collection from Kaisercraft.

  I added some Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Weathered Wood to a stamp and also made some splats with some Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Rusty Hinge.

Have fun with the sketch and play along and upload to Stuck?! Sketches for a chance to win a great prize.  Also, check out what the team created with the sketch.  Have a great day!