Floss, Fibers, & Ribbons Challenge Winners

Grand Prize Winner: Carolyn

Grand Prize Winner: Carolyn

Adrea

Caro

Diana

Thanks to all entered, there were some great ideas out there this week! White Racoon sent us this link with several fresh ideas to try. I'd encourage you to check it out and thank her for taking the time to post it! Winners send me an email at practicalscrappers@gmail.com to get your blinky.

1O Things to try with Ribbon, Floss, or Fiber

Looking for some fresh ideas...here's 1O from us here at Practical Scrappers some new and some from previous weeks. You can check out examples by clicking on the links.

1: Create flower petals with floss just like Kerri & Christine. Check out Kerri's example in our Wednesday post or one from Christine's blog here.

2: Use floss to make free flowing swirls, as in Erin's Thursday example.

3: Use ribbon rumpled together to make something like frosting on a cupcake, or grass, or some other fabulous embellishment. See Deanne's Thursday example.

4: Lace thin ribbon or floss thru eyelets to create a shoe, dress, football, etc. See Amy's Wednesday example.

5: Use a variety of scrap ribbon to create a unique background on a card or layout. See Kim's Monday example.

6: Tie ribbon or floss around chipboard letters to jazz them up. See Christine's Tuesday example.

7: Weave floss through eyelets or holes and have the two ends meet in the middle to form a pretty bow. See Caroline's Thursday example.

8: Create leaves for a tree with short ribbon scraps. See Sherri's example.

9: Use ric rac as a unique border for a circular picture. See Joni's example.

1O: Fold ribbon over and use staples to attach to create a unique border. See Christine's example.

Wednesday Floss, Fibers, & Ribbons Projects

Kerri used some leftover scraps of embroidery floss to create the petals in the first flower (left to right) and also to create the entire third flower. She also used a scrap of green ribbon to create the center of the first flower by folding in an "accordian style" and used some sheer ribbon to create the bow going across the bottom of the page. See her blog for more details on how to create these cute little flowers.

Sherri used floss to machine stich a leaf border onto cardstock. She also used a silky chennelle variegated yarn to frame out her single photo-focusing attention on it and adding to the tropical feel of the layout.

Jamie used fibers to wrap the rectangles on her card

Barb threaded twisted white cord through eyelets on a strip of matted CS to give her snorkeling layout a nautical feel. She attached the title and journaling tags to the cs strip with coordinating fibers.

For this weeks challenge, Amy used black ribbon on this Bridal Shower card to lace up the paper.

Tuesday's Floss, Fiber, and Ribbon Projects

Christine made her own fake ribbon, the green one, because she didn't have any that matched what she wanted just right.

Christine likes to use floss to tie bows as an accent that is less bold than a ribbon bow.

Dianne created the flowers and the flower stems from ribbon. The stems are sewn onto the paper with DMC floss. The "grass" is from a box of sushi that she had from dinner this week!

Wanda made this mushroom card with cricut DS & Tinkerbell cart. She added the Fairy Fawn with pop dots and tied floss for a bow in her hair. She tied polka dot accent ribbon on the card and used some floss for the buttons on the flowers. She then added some glitter to make it all magical!

Tanya loves using thick 5/8" ribbon to make nice bows on her cards. She also enjoys using twine to add nice subtle texture to a card's surface. The Tree Trio digital stamp you see here is fromCreations by Penny, Practical Scrappers April sponsor. Penny's digital stamps are so unique, we urge you to drop in and peruse her store.

Monday's Floss, Fibers, & Ribbons Projects

Kim used another incredible image from our April sponsor, Creations by Penny for this challenge. She used up some ribbon from her stash to make a striking background for this image.

Joni used "baseball" ribbon along the left edge of her photos and twisted some brown twill under the title.

Jayma created these "love" canvases as a wedding gift and tied organdy ribbon around each of the chipboard letters. For the base, she first used coated the entire canvas with Mod Podge. Next she laid down the paper, wrapping it around the canvas, and adhering with tape on the back (to keep it from moving until it was dry). She then applied another coat of Mod Podge to seal it. (Note: when working with Mod Podge, your paper will look very crinkled at first, but it will smooth out when it is completely dry.)

Julie used a wide pink ribbon for the bow on her layout to match the bow in the photo.

Julie used 3 different ribbons on her card.