Back to the Beach

I have found a few different companies that I absolutely love. This project is specifically for one of my new-found loves. Their challenge this month was "Back to the Beach." The company is "May Arts Ribbons." I submitted my project idea and got to pick some of their ribbons to work with. I was a little frustrated in the colors, my screen showed some of the blues to be blue, but they were more of a teal. Gorgeous and excellent feel to them, but not all of them made it into this project. They were also very generous with the lengths they sent, I asked for 6-8 inches and they sent me a yard of each one I requested.

Another company that I used for this project was Maya Road. I had received an alphabet of their plastic letters and it came in a really cool tin that worked perfectly for this idea.



Here's the tin with the alphabet taken out and ready to be painted.



Here are the ribbons that I ended up using. I used each one at least once and most of them twice.



Here's the front with the picture placed inside as I tried to figure out how I wanted to do this. I just painted the letters with acrylic paint and the edge of the top as well.



I used the ribbons to make a layered flowers, a giant ric rac base, then the velvet ribbon was folded and looped and then the blue was gathered with a shell button for the center. I also layered my stamp pads around the edge to soften the white and make it look more sand-ish.


I glued the blue around the upper edge for the sky, folded the satin/grossgrain ribbon for the bottom and framed all around it the brown velvet. Then I took a bunch of buttons and cut off the shanks and layered them around the bottom edge.



Just a close up of the bottom corner.



Here's the whole inside of the tin. This picture is actually of me and my hubby when we were dating.


You can see more of the layers of the flower here. (My hubby says the flower is too big, but somehow that's just how it turned out)



My finished project for the "Back to the Beach" contest.