Ribbon Card – Christmas style

So I have a whole bunch of scrap ribbons that I always feel too attached to to throw out. Plus it’s such a waste and ribbon is not cheap!

Sometimes, when I’m working on a project and there’s just a little bit that I need to snip off except that it’s not long enough for a new project…I would save it in a small zip-lock bag and then create a card like this!

just snip little V’s into the ends of each piece of ribbon. It’s actually better if the pieces of ribbon are different in lengths. Then just put together a few pieces of ribbons that seem to match together.

Use double-sided tape or an ATG gun to glue down the ribbon because wet glue will seep through the fabric of the ribbons and show through.

Here I’ve made a Christmas style one using scraps of Christmas-colored ribbon from other projects.

Then I used a spellbinders frame die and my sizzix big shot to cut out half a frame to use as a border and put a Christmas sentiment on it.

That’s it! So simple and fast! I think i finished this card in about 15 minutes! The hard part was cutting the ribbon by hand haha~

Christmas Card Tutorial: Peace Love Joy

Today’s tutorial brings in elements of Christmas that really represent the holiday season. Everyone looks forward to reuniting with families and celebrating together, whether for religious reasons or simply to celebrate bring together over lots of turkey and pumpkin pie~ mmm yumm!

But sometimes these things are obscured by the glitz, the glam and bright lights. Which are beautiful but I wanted to look a little deeper past the surface at the joy, peace and love that give Christmas real meaning.

Thus I created this card which features a translucent centre piece with underlying embossing underneath.

So for this card, you’ll need the following materials:

1. One 4 x 5.5 inch card in white

2. One sheet of coloured vellum 4.5 x 5.5 inches

3. Crop-a-dile or other hole punch

4. Holiday sentiment stamp

5. Versamark stamp pad

6. Heat tool

7. Champagne embossing powder

8. EK success embossing white powder to avoid nonspecific embossing powder from sticking to the paper (optional)

9. Champagne or gold ribbon 22 inches

10. Christmas-themed embossing folder, I’m using a pointsetta-themed embossing folder. I liked the pattern.

11. Die-cutting machine, I’m using a sizzix big shot

12. Quick-dry glue, I’m using Tombow mono-multi glue

13. Spellbinders Nestabilities in Romantic Rectangles, largest die in the set

Instructions:

1. Emboss the front of the card but only emboss the card 3/4 of the way from the bottom up.

2. Cut the vellum with the Spellbinders die so that it is 5 and 1/8 x 4 inches. This is much shorter than size of the actual die but i needed it to be shorter because otherwise it won’t fit the card! I can post a tutorial on how to do this if anyone needs it.

3. Use the EK success powder tool and run brush all over the front of the vellum to deposit powder to prevent loose embossing powder from sticking to non-stamped regions of the vellum.

4. Ink up the stamp with Versamark embossing stamp pad and stamp the centre of the vellum. Immediately sprinkle champagne embossing powder over the the stamped area and shake off the excess. Use the heat tool to melt the embossing powder.

5. Put drops of wet glue such as Tombow Mono Multi Glue on the back of the vellum on areas where there was stamping/embossing. This is so that when you glue it down to the front of the card, you won’t be able to see the drops of glue since the vellum is see-through. Then glue the vellum to the front centre of the card.

6. Punch 2 holes, 3/4 inch from the top and bottom of the card and half an inch from the left fold of the card. Run the ribbon through the back of the card and through the 2 holes so that the two ends of the ribbon come out through the front. Tie a bow along running from top to bottom of the card. Dab a small dot of glue under the ribbon so that the ribbon doesn’t flop around.

And that’s it! A very simple and easy card that can be whipped together in a half an hour!

Any questions? Post a comment below! And don’t forget to check out my Facebook page for more ideas and inspiration (link on the top right hand corner).