The Ways to Use It challenge this week is Altered Ribbon. I'd already used made the stencilled snowflake background (using a Dreamweaver brass stencil with embossing paste and glitter on a shimmery blue cardstock) and was wondering what to do with it, so when I saw the Altered Ribbon challenge I decided to just use a Nesties Ribbon Tag with a sentiment on it and alter some ribbon for it.
I stamped and embossed my sentiment and then decided to make my ribbon match so took plain white ribbon, rubbed the same ink I'd used for the sentiment over it and heat embossed it with the same embossing powder. The ribbon came out slightly warped from the heat gun so I had to tape it down quite tightly to keep it stretched out straight. IRL it matches the sentiment perfectly and is very sparkly but that's hard to capture in a photo.
I added some gems to the snowflakes to increase the sparkle!
It's also for this month's Christmas Card Challenge.
Date: Friday, July 29, 2011 GMT Views: 594
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Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Sat, Jul 30, 2011 @ 3:53 PM
this worked out well iwth your ribbon. love how it sparkles like your blue and snowflakes...then again I just love sparkles,,,so hard for me not to put some on my cards...:0)...and also blue my fav. color so that makes this extra pretty...)...TFS
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
Registered: July 17, 2009 Location: Lucerne Valley, CA Posts: 703
Sat, Oct 15, 2011 @ 9:59 PM
Gorgeous use of the Dreamweaver Stencils' Snowflake background. Hope you don't mind, but I'm sending the link of this to the owner of Dreamweaver Stencils. We have an upcoming design team call. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!