Make your own paper ribbon & a Freebie!

Don’t you love all of the new deco-edged scrapbook supplies out right now?

Home-made paper ribbon

My favorite is the paper ribbon. Bazzil has “Just the Edge” card stock strips and there is Paper frills by by doodle bug but at $10 a pop it can get pricey especially when you can custom make your own in any color that you want for pennies! Here’s how:

Take decorative edge scissors (everything comes back around doesn’t it, I bet your glad you kept them…or you kicking yourself for purging them from your stash when they became passe) and cut long strips of paper or card stock. Use hand punches to make them “lacy” if desired. Voila paper ribbon! You can also use your cricut to make this. The green and lavender strips I made with my Cricut and SCAL software using a lovely font called “DB Pretty Borders” available at Scrap ‘n Fonts. I got it on sale for a buck, yay! I just chose the border I wanted to cut, re-sized it and hit “Cut” easy peasy. If you don’t have (or don’t wan’t to buy that font you can still make it easily using Cricut Design Studio (trial version or paid version), or SCAL. Here’s how: Open either program and select the shapes option. you will use the George cartridges with the shapes keypad visible or if using SCAL under the font library choose shapes.)

step 1 click on the rectangle and drag it the length of the mat. click weld.

Step 2 click on the circle and keep adding circles until they are the same length as the rectangle. Drag the circles up so they overlap the rectangle halfway. click weld.

*note in DS you might have to type and weld each circle seperatly, I’m not sure. Please leave a comment if you know 🙂

step 3 under the cutter menu hit preview and you will see if your shapes are welded, in DS click on the eyeball. Hit cut and you are done! Since I made one I will share it with you. Click here to download my scallop boarder…dang, I could of saved a dollar!

Till next time, Happy Crafting!