What a perfect combination, the cute and sweet Lawn Fawn stamps and May Arts Faux Linen Ribbon! There are so many different projects you could make with the two, but today I wanted to showcase stamping on ribbon, with a few tips and tricks.
May Arts currently offers eleven different colors of the 1.5 inch wide faux linen ribbon, so you can choose your color based on the Lawn Fawn images in the stamp set of your choice. My choices included the beautiful aqua, pink and olive ribbon and Lawn Fawn’s Flutter By Stamp Set. To complete the project, you will also need some watermark ink, black embossing powder and markers.
To start, stamp your images with the watermark ink onto the wide ribbon. The fibrous nature of the ribbon is great for stamping, as it holds the ink and doesn’t wipe off. Sprinkle the embossing powder over the images and shake off the excess powder. Here’s a tip: if you are working with light ribbon and dark embossing powder as I have, grab both ends of the ribbon and pull taut a couple of times to snap off the excess embossing powder. Here’s one more tip: use a dry paintbrush to wipe away excess powder. Next, heat the powder. The powder does not end up shiny or raised as it would on paper, but it does leave a saturated, crisp image. Finally, color the images with markers, being careful to not go right to the edge of the image to allow for a slight bleed. The embossing powder does a great job preventing bleeds. After I stamped the ribbon, I attached each of the lengths to a dry embossed panel and then to a card base. I stamped a sentiment from various Lawn Fawn sets in a banner format to complete each card.
So here are my final projects!
And you can even do a masculine version as well. Here’s a card with the olive ribbon.
I hope you were inspired to try customizing your linen ribbon as well!
Blog post by: Karen Baker
Winner & a New Giveaway
First, the winner of a Lawn Fawn Stamp Set for Day 3! Congratulations to:
Lauren Anderson
I left a note on Lawn Fawn’s page saying you sent me. 🙂
The winner for 1 spool of ribbon is:
Charity Becker
Ladies, email me at Bethney@mayarts.com with your shipping address to claim your prize!
**all winners have 2 weeks to claim their prize**
**when emailing, please note which giveaway/prize you are claiming**
And for the Day 4 giveaway, the prize up for grabs is Lawn Fawn’s Petite Paper Pack:
All you have to do is comment on any post today! Tomorrow I will announce a winner and a new prize pack to give away!
And be sure to stop on by the Lawn Fawn blog to win some M/A Ribbon!
Happy hopping & good luck to all!
xoxo!
The Ribbon Lady
love love that you stamped on the ribbons, Karen! such a fun technique! love your cards, too!
this is a really neat idea and pretty to boot!
I love this idea! Its definitely one Im going to use!
OMGosh I want to stamp on ribbon now!!!! So cute!
the leaves stamped on the green ribbon really make it pop. Great idea!
Beautiful cards!
I really love your cards showcasing this stamping on ribbon technique! So clever! I love this idea!!
Hugs,
Jo
Hi!! So beautifulé cards love them! Thanks for sharing and for the tips!!! And thanks a lot for the chance to win this super prize!! Big hugs.. Maggy 🙂
Thanks for the inspiration. TFS and opportunity to win.
WONDERFUL result!!! The cards are sooo beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
Karin
This is a great tip…thanks for sharing!
Never thought to emboss on ribbon, what a lovely effect! Please enter me in the giveaway and thanks for the chance to win!
Great combo of the faux linen ribbon with the pretty stamps.
Wow! What a great technique! I have never thought of it before 🙂
I really like stamping on ribbon. Been doing it for years, especially when I am using fancy ribbon on a present!! Your cards are awesome.
I love the way the stamped images look on the ribbon! Thank you for sharing, and for the chance to win the Lawn Fan pad.
WOW! I have never seen or heard of this technique & I'm blown away by how well it looks! I have my fingers crossed for an AWESOME paper pad, thanks for a great opportunity.
What an awesome technique! Thanks for the share! =)
What a wonderful idea you have given us today! I NEVER thought about stamping on ribbon and then embossing it…..I love the rich, velvety look you have achieved! Can't wait to try out this technique!
Wow…beautiful stamping on the ribbon…I haven't tried this…looks fab!! Lee-Ann 🙂
Wow! I've never seen this technique before. It looks great. Can't wait to try it. Thanks for the tutorial.
What a great technique! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the chance to win!!
Love this technique. Thanks for sharing.
This stamp on the ribbon technique is fabulous! Thanks for sharing some insight!
I will certainly try this stamping on ribbon technique!
Wow!!! This is something unique !!!!! I love the idea from you!!
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love the cards, especially the last one…so simple and yet so effective. thank you for sharing.
Wow, I LOVE this technique! The linen textured ribbon is gorgeous and I never thought to stamp on ribbon….can't wait to give this a try!
The stamping on this ribbon looks wonderful! Great way to give an extra-special touch to a project.
Congrats to Lauren and Charity 🙂 I LOVE this stamped ribbon – what an amazing idea! Thanks for explaining how to do this – I was not sure stamps would work on ribbon but you have sure inspired me to try it!
I have stamped on ribbon quite a bit, but never tried using embossing powder. This gives me some great ideas, I'll have to pull out some of my ribbon and give it a try!
What a great idea! Looks gorgeous.
Very cute idea. Good tip on the embossing. Love May Arts and Lawn Fawn together.
Beautiful cards. I love stamping on ribbon.
Beautiful cards and what a clever way to stamp and emboss the ribbon. Loved this idea and it looks so cool. Great job!
Very clever idea! Looks great!
What a great technique the stamps images on the ribbon look so vivid, beautiful!
Serena
Great cards, such a neat idea!
Carol B
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This is awesome! What a fabulous idea!
Love the cards and the prize !
Great cards Karen! I love the tips you shared for stamping on ribbon!
DeniseB
Thanks for the awesome idea and tutorial on how to stamp on ribbon….it looks great! Thanks also the the chance to win.
Thanks for sharing how to stamp and emboss on ribbon- I love the way they look.
Wow! The cards are awesome. I never would have thought to emboss ribbon! Wonderful!
The stamped ribbon looks great!! Thanks for the chance to play : )
WOW! I've stamped on narrower ribbon… but it looks amazing on wider ribbons!
I love using ribbons! Now, I have one more way to use them. Thank you.
This is really cool, turned out so pretty! Love the blue butterflies on the blue ribbon, the black embossing powder really did saturate so nice 🙂 Thanks for the tut, I'll definitely try this 🙂
Wonderful cards and thanks for all the tips for stamping on ribbon.
That is such a clever idea for the ribbon! I LOVE it!
Love that idea!!! I can’t wait to try It.
I have never stamped on ribbon but your cards today make me want to give it a try… TFS
beautiful stamping on the ribbons. they are nice on gift wrapping with just a plain wrapper and ribbon with stamping.
Love these cards and I plan to try the stamp/emboss idea!
Love the petite paper pack!
Lawn Fawn stamps are so cute! Papers are quite cute too. I love 6×6 paper pads. Thanks for the chance!
Awesome idea !! I will be trying this one !!
oh my I love the stamping on the ribbon…looks awesome…
Brilliant idea! I can't wait to try this one!
wow, Karen! love this look! great job on the cards as well as the tutorial!
What a great idea. I'll be trying it. The cards are great. The photos really help me. I love that circle embossing folder as a background. It really sets off the image on the ribbon.
This is a fantastic idea that I have never thought! Thanks for all of the photos, and I def. want to try this now!
I love this idea. I am so going to have to try this. Really love how the butterflies came out.
What a beautiful technique! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love the technique and the cards!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
What a great idea ~ Thank you! I love your cards, too…stamping on the linen ribbon looks lovely!
Thank you so much for a chance to win!!!
supercool, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful combo! Love me some Lawn Fawn!
Beautiful technique! Can't wait to try this. Thanks for showing us how.
That is so awesome! I love the idea of stamping ribbon!
Thanks for sharing this technique and the helpful tips. Will it work on other kinds of ribbon like satin, or only on the linen?
Kathryn, I believe when you heat satin ribbon, it shrinks the fiber, and the ink from stamping wouldn't be as permanent, so that is why I love the faux linen ribbon so much!
Way cool idea, thanks for sharing it …I am off to my studio to try it 🙂
Great effect of stamping on ribbon. have to try.
So fun!
Wow! What a brilliant idea!
I love that faux linen ribbon and the effect you achieved when you stamped on it!
Love how these cards turned out! Thanks for all the tips!
That is such a cool technique! I love it. 🙂
Love the stamped ribbon- fab idea to try.
Stamping on ribbon, what a great idea!! These projects are very elegant.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Nadège
Stamping on ribbon like that is a fabulous idea! Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
Theses are gorgeous, so elegant. This is a great idea I'll have to give it a go 🙂
Wow! I need to try this technique because your cards are spectacular!!!
I have tons of ribbon – and stamps. Never thought to use them together in this way! I want to go home and try it ASAP!
Beautiful cards!! I love the idea of stamping on ribbon, it turned out gorgeous!
That is inspired! I can't wait to give it a try. The butterfly card is my favorite! I would never have thought to emboss on ribbon…great idea!
Love Karen's cards, love the texture of the ribbon with the embossing.