Hello crafty friends! Davina here, with a cute Shabby Chic inspired prize ribbon for you today . The May release was so cute and full of incredible school themed sets perfect for all of the end of year projects, cards and thank yous. I have been seeing so many fun beaded and custom felt prize ribbons as of late, and I wanted to make a ruffled paper version on a card, using new stamps from Mama Elephant.
I started by choosing my images from the new You’re a Superstar stamp set, then I went into my stash of Creative Cuts and found some scalloped dies that i thought would layer beautifully. I decided on the pretty Caly Circle Lace dies and the super fun Combo Circle layering dies. Patterned papers always decide the color combos for my projects, so after choosing some shabby chic striped paper for the background layer, I selected some soft rose cardstock to make the base of my prize ribbon. I cut 2 of the larger doily style shapes and then 2 from a dusty soft blue for the smaller layers. All of these paper pieces received a very gently ink blending along the edges and some soft gold splatters on the pink. For the center of the ribbon used colored ink from The Stamp Market to partially stamp the sentiment. I wanted to make faux beads for the word exceptional, and used the wonderful Creative Cuts die set called String of Letters. After cutting the “letter beads”, I assembled them by sandwiching 2 circles and some bakers twine with a teeny dot of hot glue. It’s a tedious few minutes, but these kinds of accents make a world of difference.
You must get the rest of the accents ready and placed before adhering the bracelet portion with the letter beads. That way it can be applied with the appropriate amount of “give” and swing without covering anything up. I took a strip of the striped paper and gently misted it with water to make the folding of the ruffle easier. I glued die cut the row cheering cuties across the strip and got ready to assemble the ribbon.
Using some creamy crepe paper from a party streamer roll, I scrunched up about 14 inches to make the ruffle. I then cut it in half to double the length now that it was scrunched up to about 6 inches. I ran some hot glue around half of a large pink circle, then quickly arranged my ruffle. Then I worked on the other half and just cut off and discarded the extra. I arranged a few foam dots in the center space then put my second gold splattered pink circle. After assembling my Circle Combo for the middle portion, I adhered that to the middle and glued on the row of characters towards the bottom of the medal. Finally i attached the string of letter beads with a dot of glue on just the first and last letter so that the word itself can swing and wiggle.
I selected some soft and thin sheer ribbons to layer at the bottom of my medal and left them only long enough to reach the bottom of my card. I distressed my patterned paper by rubbing some thinned gold paint along there edges then adhered my large ruffled prize ribbon to the center. I think it would have been nice to apply a magnet to the back and just make the ribbon removable, but I didn't think of until it was too late.
I hope you enjoyed this project, imagine how many different prize ribbons you could create for so many occasions! Thank you for stopping by, Davina
