Close up of the finished flowers.
You'll need matching colour 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, a 1-1/4" circle of So Saffron card stock (use a bigger circle if you want a bigger flower and if you are using a wider ribbon) and Sticky Strip or Sticky Sheet. Stampin'Up!'s Sticky Strip or Sticky Sheet works best with ribbon.
Cover the 1-1/4" circle with Sticky Strip or Sticky Sheet.
Remove the plastic of the Sticky Strip and stick the end of the ribbon in the middle of the circle. I leave my ribbon on the spool so I wont waste any ribbon. I hate wasting things so therefore I keep the left overs and now I have many, many scraps all over the place. That's kind of annoying too. Anyway, back to the tutorial.
Twist the ribbon (my youngest helped me hold the circle while I take a picture, you need two hands to do this ribbon flower).
Twist and wind the ribbon at the same time around the circle and pushing the ribbon down as you go to make sure the ribbon stick to the circle.
Here is more ribbon on the circle.
All covered up circle.
Snip the ribbon off.
Bring the ribbon end to the back and stick it down with a Sticky Strip.
Here is the finished flowers on a card. The bigger flower I used 1-3/4" circle and 5/8" grosgrain ribbon and the small flower I used 1-1/4" circle and 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.
Hello everyone! How is your day so far? We got rain today but I'm not complaining. Rain is good for the flowers, the birds and everyone living on this earth. We all need water to survive. I think rain is good for people with pollen allergy. The pollen doesn't have a chance to fly around and attack them. lol
I finally tried to make this style of ribbon flower. What do you think? Very simple to make. I punch a round circle piece of card stock and add sticky strip to it. Next, use a seam binding ribbon, start in the middle, twisted it and wind it around the circle card stock. Keep the ribbon on the spool to get the length you need. If you cut it then it might be too short or too long. You don't want to waste ribbon if you don't need to. If you want to me to make a tutorial just let me know.
Here is a composition book I altered for a friend. Now I just have to mail it to her. She reads my blog so I'm not going to say who it is for.
I don't know her favourite colour so I hope she likes pink.
I put a rosette flower in the middle of the chocolate chip ribbon. The rest of the flowers I added half pearls to them. Love those half pearls.
You'll need a needle, thread and 7" length of ribbon of your choice. I used 5/8"wide satin ribbon.
Make a knot at the end of the thread and sew in from 1/4" of the end of the ribbon as shown above.
Make a running stitch along the edge of the ribbon. I did about 1/8" apart but you can make a wider stitches.
When you stitch to the end of the ribbon, pull the thread and gather the ribbon as shown above. The ribbon will curl when you gather the ribbon.
Put the 2 ends of the ribbon together as shown above.
Stitch the ends together as shown above. Tie a knot to finish the ribbon flower.
Here are different ribbon flowers I made using different kinds of ribbon. I used the Crumb Cake taffeta ribbon, the Pretty in Pink satin ribbon and the Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon. The satin ribbon is the hardest to work with cause it is slippery.
Here is the altered composition book I made for my sister for attending the Regional with me. We had a great time learning and seeing new things. She love this book very much cause I made in her favourite colour.
Happy Friday everyone! I need a note book to take notes at the SU Vancouver Regional event on Saturday. It is a white note book (you can see it where the coil is) that I had for awhile and never decorate it. Finally decided to alter it.
I decorated the book with my favourite colours. I used Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake colours.
Here is a close up of the ribbon flowers I made. I gathered on one side of the ribbon with a needle and thread. I then put a pearl on each of the flower. I like how it turned out. I didn't use the pearl from SU. They were too small for my flowers.
Are you looking for Valentine ideas? Here are two heart baskets made from the Petal Cone Bigz L Die. I embossed them with the Perfect Polka Dots and the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folders. Gotta love those embossing folders.
I added the Build a Blossom flower to this basket.
I added ribbon rosettes to this basket. I made the rosettes from satin ribbons. Satin is harder to work with because they are so slippery. I used to make tons and tons of these rosettes for weddings. I used a stiffer ribbon for it.
