Quick Tip: Coloring Ribbon + Twine

Copic markers are our favorite coloring medium. We reach for them time and time again. They're vibrant, blend easily, and are refillable. As an alcohol based marker, they stick to non-porous surfaces and are permanent. This makes it easy to color white, clear, or silver embellishments. We use this technique on everything from eyelets to self adhesive pearls. 

As you can see above, today we tried it on baker's twine. Simply drag the nib along your ribbon or twine to change its color. This works on satin, grosgrain, and even sheer ribbons. If you're needing to color a large amount, place the twine in a ziplock bag and add a few drops of ink using a Copic refill. The drying time will be longer for the refill technique, whereas the marker technique dries almost instantly.

With this quick tip you can match your ribbon and embellishments to the colored images on your cards. We'd love to see what you create. Stop in with your next project or post an picture to our Facebook Page!

You can find the entire collection of Copic markers, and the fun embellishments, at Creations Galore. We'd love to tell you more about this wonderful product. Click here for more info about our store and to grab directions.

Creations Galore Gal, Megan Daul: Scrapping the Winter Months

Hello paper crafters! Here in Wisconsin, snow has covered the ground giving us lots of opportunities to go sledding, ice fish, and make good looking snowmen. We're embracing all this snow by sharing two winter layouts from Creations Galore customer, Megan Daul.  

Megan is from Green Bay, Wisconsin and has contributed to our Customer Spotlight posts before. You can find more of her creations by visiting her blog, Creative Happiness.

Now let's take a look at these projects! Both are two page layouts and feature Bo Bunny papers, Glimmer Mists, and lots of snowflakes! 

We love Megan's use of spray inks with these layouts. As you can see, the mist still shows up on dark cardstock, creating a shimmery, colorful background. It makes us feel like we're in the midst of the blizzard, with the spray ink wisping through the layout.

How creative is the use of silver cord as an embellishment? Megan used Glossy Accents to easily add the ribbon in fun loops around the layout.

Here's Megan's second layout. She stuck with the same color scheme, papers, and mists; however, incorporated a few other elements with this layout. For example, she cut out snowflakes from the patterned paper and used them as single embellishments. In addition, she used a fun ribbon instead of cording. 

We love how Megan cut around the snowflakes in the corner of a patterned piece of paper and layered it onto solid cardstock. She also added clear rhinestones to the center of each snowflake.

A big thank you to Megan for sharing her gorgeous snow-themed pages with us today! We hope you've been inspired to document your winter activities! 

Creations Galore Gal Carol Wachholz: Creative Ribbon

Hello crafters! We've got a new spotlight post here at the Creations Galore blog featuring our lovely customers. That's YOU! We love seeing all the projects you complete using products found at Creations Galore, and we can't keep them all to ourselves. We want the rest of our customers to see how creative each and every one of you are!

Today, we're happy to have Carol Wachholz show off a few cards she created using a fun, new technique. Take a look at this fall card:

Carol die cut the leaves out of the yellow cardstock and ran it through an embossing folder. She laid the yellow cardstock onto the brown cardstock and traced each leaf. After removing the yellow cardstock, she put Scor-Tape on pieces of ribbon, placing them over the traced image and trimming accordingly. Once all of the leaves were covered in ribbon, she added the yellow cardstock to the card, this time using foam risers to adhere it to the card front. What an adorable idea!

Carol doesn't neglect the inside of her cards either! Look at how gorgeous the inside of this card is. Layered cardstock, punches along the top, and a great sentiment complete the fall greeting.

With fall coming to an end, Christmas cards may be on your mind. Carol created a holiday card using the same technique. This time she die cut a small tree out of the red cardstock and ran it through a poinsettia border embossing folder.

All the ribbons used in these cards are from American Crafts, sold in individual spools for only $1. Stop by Creations Galore to get your hands on a few spools to create your own cards!

We hope you've been inspired by Carol's fun cards today. We sure were! Want to be featured in next week's customer spotlight? Stop into Creations Galore with your layouts, cards, or other projects, or send an email with photos to nicolelaha{at}gmail{dot}com. We'd love to have you write a blog post for us, sharing the wonderful creations you've been making!