Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Skipping Stones and Ribbon Carousel Blog Hop

Good morning and Happy 4th of July for my friends in the USA!  Today is an awesome day at Skipping Stones Design because we are teaming up with the talented crew from the Ribbon Carousel for a blog hop full of all kinds of stampy and ribbony goodness!

The Ribbon Carousel was so kind to give each of us on the Skipping Stones team selected ribbon from their June 2012 ribbon kit and using this week's photo from Skipping Stones July Inspiration challenge, here is what I came up with:


On a panel of cream cardstock, I die cut 3 stars.  I selectively inked one of the sentiments from Christmas Song and Celebrate the Season, just became Celebrate.  I added some patterned paper from Canvas Corp to the bottom and pleated the luscious navy ribbon from our kit and adhered it to the card.  A large button tied with twine finished off the ribbon treatment. 


I stamped the woodgrain patterned from Grunge 1 on cream cardstock using a pale linen ink.  I attached the two layers together using foam adhesive and adhered the completed card front to a card base made of kraft cardstock. 

What's an awesome blog hop without prizes??? Hop along and leave some blog love for our designers for a chance to win one of 2 great prizes!  The Ribbon Carousel will be giving away a ribbon carousel and Skipping Stones Design will be giving away a stamp set of the winner's choice!   Winners will be announced on the Ribbon Carousel blog on Saturday at 8:00 PM EST!  


Wouldn't this make an awesome addition to your crafty space? 

Ready to hop?!  
Lets do it! 




Don't forget that Skipping Stones is also hosting our weekly challenge and this time- it's an inspiration photo- hop over to the Skipping Stones blog for all the details and to link up your take on the sketch. 


29 comments:

  1. WOW!!!! Great looking card.

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  2. Super cute! Love the "ruffled" ribbon and the stars die cut into the card!

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  3. LOVE this card Katie! Great ribbon treatment and those star die cuts with the woodgrain is fabulous!

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  4. love the bow~love the pleating. Beautiful card Katie~thanks for having me guest in June. Love your stamps and will be ordering the cupcake one!!:):)

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  5. Love your card design! So appropriate for today.

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  6. I love the woodgrain stars...they provide such a great contrast to the cream card stock. Really beautiful.

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  7. Beautiful card! Love the stars and the deep blue ribbon!

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  8. Katie, this is gorgeos! Those woodgrain negative stars are perfect!

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  9. Cute card! I love it!! Thank you for sharing!

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  10. Love this card!! The pleated ribbon is brilliant and I really like it paired with the twine and button. Selective inking is a great technique tip too. TFS!

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  11. Great card, nlove the cutouts

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  12. AWESOME use of ribbon! Great card!

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  13. Karen, I liked the fact that you used die cuts on your card. What a great design. Thanks for sharing and the visit to your blog.

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  14. Love Love Love this card!!!!!!!

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  15. What a beautiful card!! I love it!!

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  16. Love your patriotic card and all the details were just magnificient!

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  17. Love that wood background behind the stars cut outs, and the way you used the celebrate sentiment.

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  18. The design on your card is lovely, very striking, love the wood grain behind the stars!!!

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  19. I love this design. I have some woodgrain paper I want to try doing this with.

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  20. Katie, I just love this card. The woodgrain stars are just the best, but the ribbon looks so wonderful folded like that.

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  21. Awesome card for the fourth, love the cut outs with the wood grain background. Your bow is fabulous!

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  22. LOVE how you used the woodgrain to peek through the negative space! Great card!

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  23. Very nice card! Everyone has said it all: love the woodgrain, the stars, the RIBBON (color is so lush in the closeup)and, in particular, I love DOTS!!!

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  24. Love this! Great use of the negative die cut! Wonderful ribbons!

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  25. Oh how I love this! FABULOUSness!!

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