PTI 5th Anniversary: Day 2 (Card 2)

I immediately thought of ruffled ribbon after seeing Dawn's cute birthday image at the Papertrey Ink 5th Anniversary: Day 2 challenge. Narrowly making it in time to use this week's Freshly Made Sketch, I created this:

Since I don't seem to own any sewing needles, I was about to resort to ruffling some grosgrain ribbon using a craft needle and thread when I recalled Laurie's sweet little saddlestitch ribbon trick! Perfect!

After punching a 1-3/4" circle out of my Scor-tape adhesive sheet (this is how I make my own Glubers!), I pulled one of the threads on a length of ribbon to achieve a ruffled look. I carefully laid it around the edge of my adhesive circle and voila! I punched out Dawn's image and, after running it through my Xyron, laid it over top. After doing this, I realized that I should have put a thick dimensional adhesive in the center to sort of support the whole thing but it worked alright without.

The rest of the card involved a scalloped border die, more ribbon, my scoreboard and the Sakura Stardust gel pen. After assembling this over PTI's By the Numbers patterned paper, something was definitely missing. I decided that sparklies would solve the problem. I was able to tuck the rhinestone flourish just under the ruffles and then colored it with my RV14 Copic to give it some color.

Thanks for stopping by!

{Supplies--all Papertrey Ink unless noted}

• Cardstock: Stamper's Select White
• Patterned Paper: By the Numbers
• Image: PTI's 5th Anniversary graphics
• Dies: medium scalloped border
• Ribbon: Aqua saddlestitch
• Other Tools: 1-3/4" circle punch (Marvy Uchida), rhinestone flourish (dollar store), RV14 Copic, Stardust gel pen (Sakura), scoreboard (Martha Stewart), iRock/1 teensy rhinestone (Imaginisce)