Jazzing up your ribbon flowers

 This is my part two of May Arts round two of their DT call.

Confused!?!

In the previous post I showed you how to make a "simple ribbon flower" and now I want to give you some ideas on how to jazz them up.  Like so...

 Here's some things I used

May Arts ribbon in 3/4" Twill/Stripes

Fabric brads

Ink (colorbox pigment ink)

Glitter glue (smooches glitz)

First Check out the flower tutorial HERE

Jazzing it up the first way

Before you fold and stitch your ribbon,

Ink up the middle

It should totally NOT be perfect, just dab along the strip then continue on to make your flower.

Jazzing it up way two

This is for all you who like the vintage look.

After your flower is all made (using the "ink in the middle" technique above)

cut along the top rib of the whole ribbon.

Then using your fingers, gentle pull at the top where you have cut.

Letting the treads of the ribbon "loose" like so...

Jazzing it up number three

This one is easy and for all you glitter gals.

Just add a some glitter glue to the insides of the folds in your flower.

It really helps to use a glitter glue with a paint brush tip like this "Smooch Glitz"

Jazzing it up the forth way

Before you sew your ribbon add a piece of ribbon with color in the middle.

You want to fold the Faux Linen ribbon around the colored ribbon and then sew.

 Jazzing it up the fifth and last

Simple ... Add a brad to the middle :)

 In my "simple ribbon flower" tutorial I said how I like to add my ribbon flower to a clip 

and here's why

 If you add it to a clip you can do so much and here's what I did with mines

Adding it to a headband...

 And of course, putting it on a card...

 Just tucked it in the back of paper panel.  Take a look.

 Okay all, I hop you liked all the Jazzed up versions of a simple ribbon flower.  

It would be a dream to play with pretty ribbon and I'm sooo itching to be on the May Arts Design Team.

Wish me luck!