Ribbons Aren't Just For Little Girls!
Add style and texture to your scrapbook pages with ribbon. There's an unbelievable selection of scrapbook ribbon on the market today. Adding ribbon is a quick and easy technique for fast and fabulous scrapbook pages. Scrapbook ribbon can be used in a variety of ways.
Punch a hole in tags and tie ribbon in the hole.
Wrap a length of ribbon around a mat or your whole page tucking and attaching the ends underneath
Try punching holes along the edges of a mat and tie scrapbooking ribbons in each hole.
Make your photo look like it is hanging from a ribbon by "hanging" it from a brad or charm
Fold your ribbon in half, fan the ends and staple onto tags and mats.
Staples are currently very popular. A relatively new product called the Fastenator, is a stapler designed specially for scrapbookers. You can purchase special wide staple bars for it that are imprinted with words or designs.
There are all sorts of themes for the staples like: kid stuff, holiday, bride and groom, sentiments, brights and many, many more.
Although they make a mini version, I like the large Fastenator because it can reach anywhere on a 12 x 12 page.
Use the same kind of fold and rather than staple, fasten down with glue dots, then use another glue dot to adhere a charm or button on top of the scrapbook ribbon, or
insert a brad through the ribbon and tag.
Cut a mat about one inch longer on one edge of your picture. Tear the edge, then fold it over your picture. Tie a ribbon, string or twine under and around the fold. You can slip a charm on to if you like.
Tie scrapbooking ribbons along the spine of your albums with metal-rimmed tags attached to them to label your albums by year or subject.
I like to use glue dots to adhere ribbon to my pages. They are clear, come in small, large and pop-up varieties and stick like nobody's business.
