Ribbon of Courage Video

Hello, Crafters.

I am so excited to tell you all that I promoted to Gold yesterday - I'm so thrilled! I'm on cloud 9!  

Yesterday Stampin' Up! updated the Clearance Rack, without giving us advance notice!

Unfortunately, the system was down when I found out at 7.30 am yesterday morning, and by the time it was back up again, so many products had sold out! 

My biggest frustration was not being able to tell my customers as soon as I would like to have been able to!

If you're reading this, and you are one of my customers, I'm truly sorry!

This morning, I uploaded my video which shows how I made the Ribbon of Courage card I shared with you on Monday. 

I almost kept to the same design! 

Apart from the usual colour change - for the video I used Rose Red instead of Sweet Sugarplum - I also changed the sentiment. 

On the original card, I adhered the four circle flowers in each corner by adhering them with Dimensionals, but I wasn't totally happy with them. 

In the video I decided to adhere them directly on to the corners using Tombow, and I do prefer them this way. 

I felt that by popping them up on Dimensionals, gave them more prominence than they warranted; I felt they distracted from the main image and the ribbon!


As I didn't have any ribbon in Rose Red, I had a look through my retired stash and found one in Raspberry Ripple which was an InColour about four or five years ago. 

Although it's not an exact match, I think it's close enough. 

To create the die cut hole frame on the front layer, there are two ways to do it i.e. the perfectionists way or JanB's way - in the video I explained how to do the perfectionist's way, and demonstrated the JanB way i.e. the easy way! ☺
 
The die is from the Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits, and they co-ordinate with the Snowflake Sentiments. They were in the Christmas Catalogue which has now retired, but they are being carried forward to the new Annual Catalogue. Although these products aren't showing in a current catalogue, you can still order them!
 
These are the catalogue numbers if you want to order them:-

Wood Mount Snowflake Sentiments 144817
Clear Mount Snowflake Sentiments 144820
Swirly Snowflake Thinlits 144678 

In the video I called the foil I used Rose Foil; it is actually called Champagne Foil 144748; and like the dies and the stamp sets, it was in the Christmas Catalogue, and will be carried forward, so can still be ordered! ☺

Another change I made to this card is on the inside where I adhered the hearts.

In the video, I used the very small ribbon die and cut four using Rose Red Cardstock, and adhered them under the hearts. 

I decided to adhere the two at the bottom up the right way as I thought they would silly upside down. 

That's it from me today. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.

Ribbon of Courage

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you've enjoyed a relaxing weekend. 

Today's card is another one that was inspired by a swap I received at OnStage  a couple of weekends ago.

My finished card doesn't have the same clean look as the swap, but I'm still happy with how it turned out!
 
The swap was made by Barbara Hill; so many thanks for the inspiration, Barbara. 

I chose Sweet Sugarplum as my colour, and decided to follow Barbara's card except for drawing the lines round the outside. 

As I struggle with straight lines anyway, I didn't want to try and get wavy lines that looked professionally drawn, and without allowing my pen to blob because I hesitated!  LOL!

I decided to go through my dies to find a shape I could draw along, like a scallop edge!

I came across the Detailed Santa Thinlits Dies - this will be retiring on 31st May 2018 - that has a strip similar to the one I used from the Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Dies.

The difference is that the "holes" are short slanted "holes"rather than plain circle holes! 

I considered drawing along the edge of the trellis-like strip die in the Flourish Thinlits Dies, and I also considered die cutting the little strip of leaves in the Little Loves Framelits Dies!  
 
Another possibility I found was a different trellis-like die in the Petals and More Thinlits Dies, and another scallop edge in the Popcorn Box Thinlits Dies - this will also be retiring at the end of May!

The Swirly Snowflakes Thinlits Dies is being carried forward to the new catalogue, together with the co-ordinating Snowflakes Sentiments Stamp Set. 

To cut the line of holes on my Whisper White layer, I positioned the die along the edge, cranked it through the Big Shot, and did the same to the next three sides.
 
When I laid this on the Sweet Sugarplum layer, I thought the holes were too close to the edges, and tried again! 

This time, I measured in at 1/8" on all four sides, and cut all four sides again. 

This time I was much happier, but rather than discarding the first Whisper White layer, I used it as a layer inside the card, so you could see what it looked like, and you could decide which you preferred!

The other products I used on my card include the Rose Gold Foil Paper for the layer under the top, and the Ruched Ribbon that was available during the first year Sweet Sugarplume came in as an InColour!

The heart I adhered inside the card is the same as the small heart on the sentiment on the front of the card!

I hope you like today's card, and maybe you'll give it a go! ☺

That's about it from me today, so until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.