By Holly McMillen | 27 Feb, 2008 - 2:09 pm
Posted in Category: Ribbon Tutorial

 heaven-sent.jpg Ok, you all asked for it, and I am ready to share my ‘easy peasy’ bow with you all.   Please pardon my less than professional pictures.  I needed a spare set of hands, so my son Levi did the picture taking for me.  He’s really good, but the camera is just old.

Step 1:

ribbon-tutorial-001.jpg   Cut your base color ribbon long enough to go across your cardstock and around behind for attachment.   Lay it flat on your workspace.

Step 2:

ribbon-tutorial-002.jpg   Cut 2 or more pieces of contrasting ribbon (I use about a 3″ strip) and lay it crosswise on your base ribbon.

Step 3:

ribbon-tutorial-003.jpg  Tie your base ribbon around your contrasting ribbon.

Step 4:

ribbon-tutorial-004.jpg  Pull ribbon tight and straighten.

Step 5:

ribbon-tutorial-005.jpg   Trim ribbon edges to desired length

 Step 6:

ribbon-tutorial-006.jpg   Attach ribbon to card!

This is my first time doing a tutorial.. please leave feedback!

Here’s the deets:

Stamps:  My Favorite Things’ Baby First

Colors: Regal Rose, Bliss Blue, Barely Banana, GP White

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, copics, white gel pen

Accessories: mini brads, ribbon, dimensionals, scissors

TFL!~ and have a blessed day!

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27 Feb, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
marisa (whiterockmama) said:

Nice tip - always love the ribbon(s) on your cards. . Thanks for the step by step and a thanks to Levi for his photography — hope his hourly rate isn’t too high ;-)

27 Feb, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Joyce-JRT said:

Thanks Holly-You explained perfectly. Nice bow technique…tfs

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Libby said:

Great tutorial - thanks for sharing! Love how that bow looks, and now I’m excited to try it for myself!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
bronih said:

It’s a great tutorial, Holly! Great bow!!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Pat said:

Gorgeous job. Thank you so very much. Your son should be a professional photographer. He did an awesome job.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Big hugs to you both.

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Smriti said:

It’s an awesom tutorial and technique! Who would’ve thought this is your first tutorial!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Ann said:

Thanks for a wonderful tutorial Holly! You make it look so easy, but I won’t say it is easy until I have tried it! LOL

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Dawn E. said:

Oh very cool Holly! Thanks so much for explaining!! Your son did a FAB job helping out!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Farmwife Debbie said:

Holly…. awesome tutorial….Thinking I should visit your blog everyday!

Love ya

27 Feb, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Jennifer said:

Holly, fabulous tutorial! Half the time it takes me longer to try to get my ribbon knot perfect than it does to make the card, LOL! I love this idea for ribbon, I am trying this right now!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
Vivian said:

Well, that is just plain neat! Thanks for sharing that. Great tutorial. I just clicked on each pic and opened in a new window to make it bigger.

27 Feb, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Viv (VivLyn) said:

Your tutorial was great and is your card is adorable!!

27 Feb, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Marg said:

Thank you. Very clear to understand.

27 Feb, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
Kathy (Wattle) said:

Thanks Holly - very easy to follow and the bow looks great! :)

27 Feb, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Heather said:

This is a wonderful tutorial! I am going to give this trick a try tonight :)

27 Feb, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

Now that you’ve done such a nice job on this one I can say, “More, more, we want more!”

28 Feb, 2008 @ 9:09 am
Sandra Moss said:

That looks too easy! Thanks for sharing, I love your creativity!

28 Feb, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Susan VanMeter said:

OMG, Thank you so much Holly! You are right - it is easy peasy!

29 Feb, 2008 @ 8:47 am
Bev J. said:

Thanks for the easy peasy ribbon tutorial. Saw someone mention it on SCS this morning. Neat Blog! tfs

Bev J. (Maxell on SCS)

29 Feb, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Diane Lapointe said:

Wonderful tutorial!!! That’s a really nice bow! TFS!

3 Mar, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Diane Stader- Lost in the 60's said:

Thanks, Holly for this super tutorial…can’t wait to make one of these cute bows!!

Diane

7 Mar, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
joyk said:

Super tutorial!! Love your sweet bow too! TFS!!

18 Mar, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
Laura said:

I was just about to ask you about the bow when I saw that you did this tutorial. Thank you so much. You are one of my very favorite stampers!

11 Apr, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Jodi (Kharmagirl) said:

Hey Holly! I just made a card using your easy peasy ribbon technique and I just wanted to say ‘Thanks!!” What a great technique!!

19 Apr, 2008 @ 10:57 am
Dealbaida said:

Thank you SO much for this. I have heck’s own trouble trying to tie ribbon (blame it on being left-handed) but this is such a simple method even I can achieve! The tutorial is all-round first class.

Marion
UK

22 Aug, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Terri said:

Well I’m a lefty too so this has helped me as well. Thanks for demonstrating this great ribbon technique.

Ter
Ottawa, On., Canada

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