Thursday’s Trend - Ribbon Flowers
February 4, 2010 by Danielle
Since Valentine’s Day is almost here, I decided that I wanted to do a “love” themed page. I combined some of the new Bayberry Cottage line with the 365 Degrees line. I love the reds and greens with the houndstooth pattern!
One trend I have been seeing lately is handmade flowers. I love them. VERY MUCH! Here I’ve made one with the red pleated ribbon, and I’ll show you how! I have also noticed a trend using vellum for titles and journaling lately, so I wanted to try that look on my page. I didn’t use vellum though, just printed right onto the patterned paper. The font is called Edwardian.
Here is how I made the ribbon flower:
That’s it, very easy! One more thing I wanted to share about my page is regarding the houndstooth letters. I was all out of an L, V and E that I needed for the title. So I had to make do with the letters I had left. I cut a T into an L, cut a Y down to make a V and cut an 8 to make an E. Can you tell I REALLY wanted the houndstooth title on my page?!
Thanks for stopping by,
I adore this page! I thank you so much for sharing your flower technique…I would never have thought it was that easy! Can’t wait to try it!
Adorable! Love the flower! TFS!!
adorable layout!!! Thanks for posting how you did the flower
This is gorgeous, Dani. I love those houndstooth letters, too.
That is GORGEOUS! Both the flower & the LO itself!
Fab flower - love the layout too!
That’s fabulous Dani!
I love how you “created” the title letters from others too! That’s awesome!
Gorgeous flower tutorial Dani….I so can NOT wait to get my hands on these ribbons…beautiful
WOW…this is soooo cool, awesome flower tutorial and GORGEOUS page!!!
Gorgeous, Dani! Can’t wait to try this!
fantastic!! Love the flower idea!!
I love your work Dani! That flower is so awesome!! I can’t wait to get some of that pleated ribbon in my hot little hands!! Thanks for sharing how you altered your title letters to make it work for you!!
WOW Beautiful! Love that flower! Thanks for the technique!
love the whole layout. thanks for the tutorial.
beautiful LO, Danielle! Love the splashes of red!
Ahhhhh….that’s how you do that! Beautiful!
Love the letter creations - been there… hugely in love with the ribbon flower. love making my own as well!
Dani that flower is fantastic and love the texture it adds! Thanks for the instructions!
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the Houndstooth letters and the ribbon/ribbon flower is fabulous
This is great!! How much ribbon does it take to do this flower? I’ll have to try it..these rolled flowers are everywhere. Love them..but it looked so tricky, till now. Thanks!!
Carol, I used one of the new pleated ribbons by Pink Paislee in these photos, I think they are about 12″ long or so.
Danielle
Thank you for the lovely tutorial, love the layout and colors. I also noticed that the flower look kind of 3D effect can you tell me how you made it look like that on the page. It’s outstanding!