Tuesday Tips - Got Ruffles?

This photo of a ruffled draped fabric on a home-designing blog inspired me to create a few cards with ruffled ribbon.  There are several ways to create the look of ruffled ribbon on your cards.  Today's card ruffle was created using sticky strip and ribbon.

 

Lay a piece of sticky strip across the card on the place where the ribbon will be and remove the red liner from the tape.  Beginning with the end of the ribbon, smooth down about an inch of it onto the end of the sticky strip.  Gather a loop of the ribbon and press down with your finger onto the ribbon once again on the next sticky area in the row of sticky strip - just press about a half inch worth.  Make a second loop and press the ribbon down again, repeating all the way across the sticky strip.  You will have a looped {ruffled} ribbon across your card.  Trim the edges of the ribbon.  I like to insert a very small piece of sticky strip in between the loops so the loops lay down instead of stand up.

Ruffled ribbon and ribbon flowers can also be created by pulling a thread from the ribbon ends and gathering the ribbon all the way down the length of it.

I'd love to see your ruffled card creations!

Linda