You All Are... Fantastic Amazing Wonderful

Thank you to everyone for the warm welcome back into scrappy land, you all are truly fantastic, amazing, and wonderful! I made this card with the mindset of inspiration and determination for my cute little boxing rhino from Starving Artistamps, to never give up on your goals and dreams as we all start this new year.

Thank you for the sweet comments!

Staging a Comeback

Due to an illness I have been absent from creating, I have missed it immencily and I am ready to stage my comeback into the scrap world. I feel a bit out of the loop, but I am ready to jump in with both feet and maybe even start designing once again. Here is a card I made using Starving Artististamps. I use to design for this great company and their stamps are top notch. This cute little hippo is from their Doodle Factory II line.

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Ribbon Carousel • Sparkle Blog Hop

The Ribbon Carousel Crewmates are thrilled be teaming up with the talented designers from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps to bring you an amazing blog hop jam-packed with crafty inspiration!

Hop along and leave some blog love for our designers for a chance to win one of two great prizes!  The Ribbon Carosusel will be giving away a $15 gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel Store and Sparkle Creations will be giving away  Traveling Josh and Suitcase Ruby !  The winner of the $15.00 Ribbon Carousel gift certificate will be announced on the Sparkle Creations blog and the winner of Traveling Josh and Suitcase Ruby will be announced right here on our blog!  

Ready to hop?  

So glad you're hopping with us!  Prizes will be selected randomly from comments left on the DT blogs!  The more you comment, the better your chances of winning! Hop will run through Friday, July 20th at 11:59pm EST.  Blog Hop winners announced Saturday at 8:00 PM EST

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Ribbon Carousel • Button & Bows

This week our super talented Crewmate Jessica Diedrich is our hostess with the mostess for our weekly challenge.  She is challenging us to embellish away with buttons and bows on our creations.   

Your creation can be anything from cards, quilts, sewn items,paper crafts, paintings! *** Be sure to have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine,lace, thread (basically anything that comes on a spool). *** 

 For my card I used 5/8" Dual striped Organic Cotton Twill Striped Ribbon in red

Come and play with us this week at the Ribbon Carousel!

Thanks for all

your sweet Comments!

Getting Sketchy @ The Ribbon Carousel

This week at The Ribbon Carousel I have whipped up a 

fun little sketch for everyone to try out!  

On my card I used the Teal Cotton Twill 

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Ribbon Carousel and Greeting Carousel Blog Hop

The Ribbon Carousel Crew is happy to be teaming up the the designers from the Greeting Farm today for blog hop that is sure to impress!

"Sprouting sunshine and smiles through stamping since 2008, The Greeting Farm is proud to bring you a cute and charming cast of characters that suits your every whim!  Whether it's a sweet and lovable Anya or Ian  (Anya has been our "company mascot" since the beginning!),  Cheeky chic, or something a little more edgy mixed with a fun beat or two of punk, TGF is your one-stop shop for all your rubber stamping wishes!   Our line has expanded from the Anya and Ian character line to some cute and cuddly animal friends, and numerous other icons such as Wild Sprouts, Cheeky Cherry girls, our bit more edgy/artsy Creeper Crew, and the lovable Oliver and Amelia who bring childhood nostalgia to everyone they meet!  Our newest release,  the "Beans", offer a magical, whimsical twist on a fun new character line in clear stamps and have been widely well-received so far.   Thanks for visiting The Greeting Farm, where we grow smiles and bright, crafty days!"

Now, lets talk about the prizes! 

One lucky blog hopper will win a ribbon carousel and one will win a choice of two 4x6 stamp set in either the clear or rubber line from The Greeting Farm!

There are TWO MORE prizes up for grabs!  We will be giving away a $10 gift certificate on our Facebook page and The Greeting Farm will be giving away a 4x6stamp set on their Facebook page (winner's choice!)

Here's what you need to do to qualify for the Facebook prizes:

1. Head on over to our Facebook page, look for the post about this blog hop and say hello there!  Be sure to "like" us if you haven't already!

2.Head on over to The Greeting Farm's Facebook page and say hello there, too!  Be sure to "like" them, too!

3. Come back to our Facebook page and tell us you've done it!

4. Share the post on our Facebook page about this blog hop with a friend for an extra 

    chance to win!

Lets get hopping'!

Starving Artistamps • Zodiac

Virgo



Taurus

Today I am sharing two more cards from the fun Antidepresstamps Zodiac from Starving Artistamps! This is is soooo much FUN!! I love each little sign, they are adorable!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Getting Sketchy with The Ribbon Carousel

For my card I used the 1 1/2" Natural Spidy lace Crochet Ribbon  & the Antique Gold Vintage Seam Binding  from the Ribbon Carousel 

This  week our fabulous Crewmate Debbie Carriere is challenging is to a sketch challenge!

We would love for you to play along with us!   Up for grabs is a $5 gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel Store! 

Here's the sketch:

Come over and play! 

Thanks for all your sweet comments! 

Starving Artistamps • Zodiac

Kraftan


Aries

Today I am sharing two more cards from the fun Antidepresstamps Zodiac from Starving Artistamps! This is is soooo much FUN!! I love each little sign, they are adorable!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Ribbon Carousel • Photo Inspiration

And just like that, it's May! 

AND today is the 

Ribbon Carousel's very 1st Birthday!

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you got a jump on shopping with the Birthday Coupon code!  Sign up for the newsletter HERE if you haven't already!

We've done a bit of re-organizing in honor of the Ribbon Carousel's birthday!  We've given our shop and our blog a little face lift and we've combined our company blog with our challenge blog so everything will be all on one place from now on!  Be sure to become a follower if you aren't one already so you don't miss out on any of the sales, announcements, prizes, blog hops, tutorials, and challenges!

Today we are sponsoring the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge so we'd love for you all to play along!  You can find the challenge HERE!  

Now, lets get started with the first challenge of our new term with some of our Ribbon Carousel Crewmates from our spring term that kicks off today!

Our verteran Crewmate and newly appointed Dirty Dozen Design Team member Angela  is challenging us to a Photo Inspiration Challenge this week and we hope you will play along with us!

Given that April showers bring May flowers, I think Angela did a fine job choosing the inspirational photo for this challenge:

The prize up for grabs is a $5.00 gift card to the Ribbon Carousel Store! 

Here is my card using the

5/8" Sky Blue Dual Striped Organic Cotton Twill

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

CAS-ual Fridays • April Showers Bring May Flowers

  Happy Friday everyone! Sadly to say this week is my last week with CAS-ual Fridays, my term has come to an end. I just want to stake a second and thank Michele and my fellow design team mates. I had such a blast with this team. I came out of my comfort zone and dabbled in CAS land and loved every second of it! I also want to specially thank the owner and creator of CAS-ual Fridays Michele Gross. Not only is Michele a good friend but she is so fun and easy to work with as a boss. Michele is incredibly witty, creative, and such a sweetheart, I just love her to pieces! CAS-ual Fridays is going to be bigger than big and I am so glad I was a part of it! Thank you!!

This week we are getting into the spirit of Spring by incorporating flowers into our cards CAS style.
Come play along for your chance to win some fabulous stickers from our sponsor SRM Stickers!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

Starving Artistamps • Zodiac

Capricorn 



Sagittarius




Today I am sharing two more cards from the funAntidepresstamps Zodiac from Starving Artistamps! This is is soooo much FUN!! I love each little sign, they are adorable!

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

CAS-ual Fridays • Sketch

This week at CAS-ual Fridays we are using a sketch for inspiration, and Gina K's Theresa Momber as our sponsor. Come and play with us at CAS-ual Fridays for your chance to win some fabulous prizes.

Thanks for all your sweet comments!

The Ribbon Carousel • No Sew Tutorial

Laura here, I am always in need of unique gifts to give to my friends when they throw their fabulous dinner parties. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a no sew apron and matching oven mitt, using

The super cute wide Black/Ivory Striped Grosgrain ribbon, and Craft Glue from the Ribbon Carousel Store!

(Supplies: 1 oven mitt, 1 matching cotton napkin, craft glue, 5 yards of wide grosgrain ribbon, and an iron)

First, I went to a local kitchen store and bought one oven mitt and a matching plain cotton napkin. I then ironed all the creases out of my apron and folded it long ways so that one side was about 5 inches longer.

I then placed where I wanted my beautiful ribbon to go, and lightly used craft glue to adhere my ribbon. I told you, No Sew... brilliant!!! Sewing machines scare me, and craft glue works like a charm. :D 

Make sure your edges are folded over all pretty and glued down firmly. I found that spreading my glue with my finger tip evenly on my ribbon worked the best. I then cut and glued my ties for the apron at the top of the skirt itself, in-between the fold of the apron on both sides. 

I then used my left over wide stripped grosgrain to line my oven mitt so it would match. And there you have it a simple but super cute apron and matching oven mitt is born!  I also added little bows to my apron and mitt with ribbon from the RC Store! :)

This project is super fun and easy and will wow your friends with the possibilities of ribbon!

Thanks,