ribbon adventure

Saturday morning, I was strolling through the Strawberry Fest downtown admiring the hand-crafted items.  I stopped at the high school Cheer Team fundraiser table where a lovely young lady asked if I would be interested in a ribbon hair bow.  My first statement was "I don't have enough hair for bows" but when she disagreed, I admitted that truly, I'm just not really interested in frilly, girly things, but I did make a donation in exchange for a raffle ticket.

That's the problem with ribbon, for me - it just seems frilly and girly, which I'm not.  I have some lovely Stampin' Up!® ribbons, many of which are not really frilly or girly, but I don't use them often.  It's one of the things that challenge me, so I was more than doubly challenged when Leslie set the Shopping Our Stash challenge as Double the Ribbon.  Not knowing when to leave well enough alone, I incorporated my own challenge to use the embossed stripes card base that's been in my stash since last year, which really called out to be a masculine card, and rolled the whole thing up into Stamping 411's sketch #260:

stamp set - Priority Mail (hostess); ink - Night of Navy, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede; Stampin' Around wheel - Candle Crazy; card stock - Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze; designer series paper - First Edition; punch - Curly Label; Big Shot with Stripes embossing folder and Tasteful Trim Bigz XL; ribbon - 3/8" Denim Jean, 1/2" Crumb Cake Seam Binding; Stampin' Dimensionals

 

I used the off-cut from the scallop on Tasteful Trim because I thought it would "echo" the Curly Label punch.  Now that I'm looking at the photo instead of the card, I wonder if using the Top Note to cut the designer series paper would have been a good choice, as well. It may have just been too much, though...