faux paint swatch

This is a fun technique I saw on Frenchie blog recently and thought how clever.  It's a simple technique using blue painters tape, yes, go raid your husband's tool box but in my case my stamping draws.  lol!  whenever my husband needs a tape or tool he comes to me or our son.  The reason for the name is it looks like a paint swatch/chip you would get at store to take home to see if you like the color on your walls.  Now usually a paint swatch would be a variation of one color but I had to be different because I had these new (to me) ink pads on my table and wanted to try them.  What you do is put blue painters tape down on ink pad to transfer ink to it then stick it to cardstock, peel away and viola!  a strip of color.  I used the same piece of tape for all the colors because all the ink does transfer to card so no need having a bunch of strips of tape.  try it and have fun!  I will be showing more samples with this technique very soon.

card supplies:
stamps:-Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps! a Heinrich Company Recipe card starters and mini recipe starter
ink pads - Hero Arts shadow ink mid-tones bubble gum, green hills, pool, cup-o-joe
twine - Really Reasonable Ribbons 
paper punch- SU

Faux butterfly

Thought it would be fun to show you a quick card I made doing iris folding....not!  so guess you can call this faux iris folding.  First I punched out a butterfly with SU punch then trace butterfly on card behind punch out.  Add adhesive and laid RRR over adhesive.......next tape stamped card with punch out butterfly over the ribbons.....get out fine point sharpie pen and draw butterfly trails.....draw out a body for the ribbon butterfly with Ranger black enamel accents....add a sentiment and you are done. fun, huh? easy peasy.  I thought so.  try it and let me know how yours comes out.

Herringbone ribbon bookmark

Check out this bookmark I created.  I did the herringbone technique but instead of using strips of decorative papers I used ribbons that I won in a drawing from Really Reasonable Ribbons .  I made a flower bow with the same ribbons that I folded and arranged together.  The image is from a plate of rubber by Rogue Redhead Designs . 

entering this in the following challenge:
1.  Rogue Redhead Designs blog - shapes: circle, rectangle, square
2.  Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings! - back to school