1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon Bow

As you will quickly realize I love ribbon and bows!! I saw this one and absolutely thought this was the greatest little trick I have ever seen!! Dawn from Stampin 'Up learned this at Leadership and made a video tutorial on it. I hope you love this as much as I do! Dawn does a lot of tutorials, hop on over to her place and check it out. You can even sign up for her mailing list - I did that's how I got this!

Here is the card with the ribbon, notice the ribbon and how it looks scrunched? Believe it or not, it is very easy to do!!

Here is link to the video
STAMPING STUDIO

How to make a bow flower

While I was finding the twisted ribbon bow tutorial, I also saw this one and thought this would be great to share as well. I don't know about you but I always have a hard time making bows for packages, and I think these would be great in a small ribbon for a page layout for a "All Wrapped Up" theme. Helen from Scrap-A-Little allows her tutorials to be shared as long as you give credit back to her. So here is another one from Helen and the link to the original tutorial
http://www.scrap-a-little.com/2009/07/tutorial-for-ribbon-roses.html

You'll need

3 ribbons about 2 1/2"

and 4 ribbons about 4".

Add glue to the ends and fold towards the center.

Just glue them on top of each other.

and you will have this;

then add your rose to the middle.

I like them a lot actually and I came up with them aaaaall by myself ;), so please if you use them on a layout, card or whatever I would really appreciate if you gave me credit and linked to my blog.