Ribbon Carousel Meets The Craft's Meow

Hi and welcome to this week's Ribbon Carousel Challenge! Our challenge is another wonderful sketch by the fabulous Danielle Lounds. Here is my take on Danielle's design, pictured below:

The crew was lucky enough to be able to use some stamps from our awesome sponsor this week, The Craft's Meow! In celebration of today being Valentine's Day, I used the Happy Owlentine's Day set. I've used a lot of different Ribbon Carousel textiles on this card, starting with the  1.5" Natural Burlap Silver/White Stripe Edge Wired Ribbon that lays across the striped panel. Over that I stitched some Black Vintage Seam Binding taught with a basting seam and pulled it tight to get a ruffled look. (Unfortunately, most of it got covered by the image panel.). I made the ruffled flower in the middle, after frustration in not being able to match the red color with a flower from my stash. Necessity certainly is the mother of invention. I will be making up a tutorial on my method to be displayed on the Ribbon Carousel's blog sometime in the near future. (You also may want to check out the blog now...I know that Corinna advertises discount codes for ribbon exclusively for subscribers.)  In any event, I used some 1/4" Burgundy Satin Center Band Ribbon to make the flower and placed that over a sweet little multi-looped bow made with Black Colored Wire String. Oh, boy is that stuff great to work with...it stays exactly where you left it, unlike kids and husbands...  :)

  

And we welcome our sponsor this week, The Crafts Meow. 

The prize this week is a stamp set of your choice from The Crafts Meow.  Sweet!

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****Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items, paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). ***

We'd love for you to join us this week! Here are the details:

• Make your NEW creation following the ribbon carousel challenge of the week. Any submissions made prior to the challenge date will be deleted. Be sure to include some type of ribbon, twine, hemp, lace....basically, anything that comes on a spool.
• Load your creation up onto your blog or a public viewing forum like Splitcoast Stampers, (use the keyword RCC40) with a direct link back to THIS post. Including the challenge graphic isn't a requirement, but sure is appreciated! (A participant of our very first challenge didn't link back or mention our challenge and couldn't be named Top Spool, so don't let that happen to you!)
• Link up your creation using the Inlinkz button at the bottom of this post. Your image may take a little while to pop up, but don't worry, it will appear shortly.
• Come back the Friday after the challenge ends to see if YOU are a Top Spool!

**My card also features the technique I explained here, to get the perimeter design, using a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page set, but NOT using her directions.Have a great day and thanks for visiting!



Stamps: Happy Owlentine's Day (The Craft's Meow)
Paper: Lost & Found Union Square dp (My Mind's Eye), Black, Kraft
Ink: Vintage Photo distress ink (Ranger), Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: 1.5" Natural Burlap Silver/White Stripe Edge Wired Ribbon, Black Vintage Seam Binding, 1/4" Burgundy Satin Center Band Ribbon, Black Colored Wire String (Ribbon Carousel), Labels Eighteen & Fancy Tags Two Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Heart Loops Trim corner & border punch (Martha Stewart), brads, Platinum Liquid Pearls (Ranger), Sand Spica pen, dimensionals, dauber
Size: 4 1/2" X 6 "
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