Making your Own Printed Ribbon!!

Here’s a tutorial I put together for the challenge 6 of the Design Team Contest at Savvy ‘n SassyHere’s the challenge:
1. Create a Blog “How To” ribbon Technique – (anything you Like – altered or Layout) be sure to include extra images showing the process and the instructions. DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS….
2. use at least 2 DIFFERENT ribbons on your creation

So here’s what I came up with!!

Have you ever wanted a ribbon that said a certain thing, but just could not find a piece in your stash to use?

Or, maybe, you have a certain color of ribbon and though, “Now, if only that ribbon had ______ written on it”.

Well, now you can have any color of ribbon, any size – say whatever you want, by making it yourself!!

How do I do this????? (you ask….)

Here’s how!!!First, gather these supplies: ~ a sheet of printed paper ~ scissors ~ tape ~ two way tape ~ and or course, a printer!

1. Next, choose what ribbon you want to use! I find that the best ribbon is the kind that it at least 1/4 inch wide or greater. Silk ribbon does not work well, but most other kinds work great (especially grossgrain – like the stuff I used for my LO. You can find it here – White Grossgrain

2. Open up your Microsoft Word program and change the page LO to landscape. To do this click on FILE in the top left hand corner, then click on page setup, then paper size. You’ll find a section to change orientation here, and you pick landscape!!

~~ Then decide what words you want printed and type them into the blank document. Play around with the fonts a bit and even the colors. You can really be as creative as you wish. As you can see in my photo, I decided to use the words, “Fun at the playground”

My font size shown here was 24.

3. Print the words onto your blank paper.

After doing this, place your piece of ribbon over the print to see if the size is right. Here’s when you can either make the font bigger or smaller to fit your width of your ribbon.
Once you get the font the correct size, you can move on to the next step.

4. Use the 2 way tape to stick your ribbon OVER the print. Two way tape works especially well if you have a long phrase to print, because it prevents the ribbon from buckling as it’s going through your printer.

Then use the regular tape to tape down the END of the ribbon that will go through the printer first. This allows for the ribbon to go through so much easier! Here’s a close-up of what the ribbon should look like when it is taped.

5. Next, place the paper (with the taped ribbon) back into the paper feeder section of your printer. (if you are like me, you will not remember which way to feed it and will end up making two tries before the print actually shows up in the right place!)lol

Click ‘PRINT’ and watch your paper come through! VIOLA!!! you have a piece of ribbon with just the words you needed to add that little extra touch to your LO!!

Here’s a picture of the printed ribbon still on the paper:

And here’s a picture of it OFF the paper!

Remember, I said that creativity is really up to you. You can choose any font, any color, and any size (well, within reason to fit on the ribbon). Play around with the dingbat font too, and see what you can come up with!

Here’s my LO I created! As you can see I added a little more than just the words I showed here!!

Products used for this LO:

pp – Fancy Pants Sweet Pea

Ribbon – Small Black Ricrack and White Grossgrain

Thanks for reading!!!