All About the Ribbon

 

Welcome! Focus on the Ribbon is our new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and Samantha is our hostess this fortnight. She has a special tutorial for you by Ribbon Carousel and if you haven't seen it yet be sure to drop by the blog and check it out, it's wonderful. My tip for this challenge is-make your own ruffled ribbon using a needle, thread and a running stitch. It's simple to do and allows you to turn any ribbon into a ruffled one. It's sew easy!

Teri, of Delicious Doodles, provided our team with digital images to work with and I chose this beautiful mermaid  and she's Swimming with Dolphins. A friend of mine has a dream to swim with dolphins someday and I made this card to remind her to just go for it. I colored my image with Prismacolor pencils and used a Finesse blender pen on my mermaid's hair & body. A trio of rhinestones mimics the water bubbles while Tumbled Glass distress ink sets my image in an underwater scene. Our challenge has us focusing on the ribbon and my handmade ruffled ribbon adds some drama and a pop of color while the ric rac has a wavy motion to it. Many thanks to Teri for providing the design team with amazing images to work with! For more inspiration check out the beautiful cards my teamies created at Top Tip Tuesday using more of Teri's delightful images.

For sketch inspiration I played along with Jen's Deconstructed Sketch No. 62 which is guaranteed to get your mojo going.Here's another tip for newbies to stamping, I wanted to separate my sentiment and use the upper line on the front of my card and the lower line on the inside. To keep from getting ink on the line I wasn't stamping I placed a piece of scotch tape to mask (cover) it. I inked my stamp, then carefully removed the tape and stamped my sentiment. I  got a clean image both times with this little trick. Hope this helps someone! Here's the second line on the inside of my card.

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I do have a bit of sad news to share, three members of our design team are stepping down to pursue other interests. It's with sadness that we bid Janette, Tammy & Katrina farewell but we certainly hope they will stop by often and play along sometimes. Ladies, thank you for the inspiration you've provided and we wish you all the best! Now for a bit of good news, Lisa M. has become a new co-coordinator here at TTT to help Carol & Samantha keep things running smoothly behind the scenes. Yay! 

I'm entering my card in the Make It Monday #100 Challenge, One Stop Craft Challenge #93 Just Good Friends  {dolphins are a mermaid's BFF}, 52 Card Pickup-Week 30, Papertake Weekly Challenge-Make Your Own {made my own ruffled ribbon}, ABC Challenge-T for two {2 ribbons}, Paper Pretties Challenge #50-Seeing Double  {3 dp's}, Southern Girls Challenge #49-Angels & Fantasy, and DYSU Challenge #82-For a Friend. For the Paper Pretties challenge I used a green dp which I embossed with a Sizzix folder, the dark blue dp by Bo Bunny, and my card base is actually a dp by DCWV which you can see below. As for the Southern Girls Challenge my mermaid is my fantasy element and I made this card for a friend {DYSU} as I stated earlier. 

Thanks for stopping by and sharing part of your day with me. Have a wonderful week wherever you are!

Hugs,

Lisa

Digital stamp image: Swimming with Dolphins (Delicious Doodles), sentiment-Pure Innocence Naptime (MFT), handmade by yours truly (studio G)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Bahama Blue & Bamboo Leaves, Tumbled Glass & Peeled Paint Distress Inks (T!m Holtz/Ranger)

Paper: Block Party dp (Bo Bunny), green-textured (PS), card base dp-The Old World Stack (DCWV), Choice Snow White (TE), aqua cs (Bazzill Basics Paper)

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels Fifteen; Prismacolor colored pencils; Finesse blending pen; orange ribbon& wavy scissors (Hobby Lobby); green ric rac (PS); Divine Swirl & Rays-Texture Fades embossing folders (Sizzix); island lagoon & aqua rhinestones (Kaisercraft); lime gems (studio G); Scallop 3 Dot border punch (MS); bubble stickers (Frances Meyer)