7 Great Ways to Use Ribbons For Creative Decorations

You can make some of the best crafts using common supplies in unconventional ways. The ribbon is one of the most versatile crafting things and it comes in different colors, textures, and also in sizes.  You can tie the ribbon in multitude of ways and also can make many different things from it.

Below, I’m giving some great ideas to use ribbon in different ways for creative decorations:

1. Decorative Ribbon Balls
Weddings, birthday and some other parties are full of opportunity for cute décor and the ribbon balls are great to use as centerpieces. You can choose a ribbon that is matching with your event theme and also decorate with a pattern that you like or say things like ‘Happy Birthday’ depending on your event.

2. Ribbon Flower
If you ever tried origami, the art of folding paper, so you can also make a beautiful flower by folding the ribbon in a similar way. You can use these ribbon flowers to make beautiful hair pieces, gift topper, brooches and much more.

3. Lace Ribbon Wands
With the help of these beautiful lace bands, you can make a great toy. To make the toy, tie and glue the ribbon and strips of lace to the end of a wood dowel and add a little bell to make it more attractive and you can use this toy in princess party.

4. Ribbon Bookmark
You can make an adorable bookmark with a length of patterned ribbon and some thinner ribbon and you can also add some cute shape button to make it more beautiful.

5. Ribbon Mobile
You can make a fantastic baby mobile with colored ribbon. Tie these colored ribbons into a frame and hang down and after that try to bunch the ribbon near the bottom or attach them for some extra style.

6. Ribbon Wreaths
Many people think wreaths are just for Christmas but it’s not true. You can make a beautiful door hanger with ribbon for any occasion or to simply enhance the decorative feel. To make it, complement color and pattern ribbons lopped loosely around a circular frame.

7. Burlap Ribbon Mason Jars
Wrapping strips of burlap with ribbon is the perfect way to decorate mason jars for a rustic wedding or picnic.

These are some beautiful and creative ideas to use the ribbons in multitude of ways. You can use the ribbons in your wedding and birthday party or any other event or occasion in a multitude of ways to make for a beautiful and classy finish.

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How to Use Ribbon to Make Your Decoration Elegant and Classy

When it comes to birthday, wedding and other functions, a ribbon is one of those décor materials you can never neglect.  It gives a perfect and elegant look to your venue decoration. You can use it in different ways. You can decorate a chair and cakes or stationary and banquets with ribbon anywhere and in a number of ways.

This is a simple idea; you can add ribbons to your banquet or also tie a bow onto menu cards. Today we are talking about how we can use ribbons for decoration:

Decorating Invitations Items

When you décor your invitation items with ribbon then it gives an elegant and luxurious look to your card. You can use it directly with the invite and/or to the envelope. You can use ribbon for decorating the table cards, menu cards, and the place card as well.

Ribbon Bouquets

A bridal bouquet adorned with satin, silk or velvet ribbon gives a beautiful and elegant look. You can use several ribbons with different shades and texture that will take your bouquet design to the next level.

Ribbon Stationery

We all love the texture, softness and luxury and you can add it using a ribbon on your invitations card, ceremony programs, and stationary creation. Decorating with ribbon is a great way to incorporate your wedding colors throughout the event. 

Ribbon Cake Decoration

This is a popular way to decorate your cake using satin ribbons. There are many ways to décor a cake but using ribbon is a perfect idea. They don’t add up to the taste, but it can make a planned cake look much more classy and elegant. You can tie a ribbon around the lower part of the cake. If you want to highlight each layer of cake, then using contrasting color ribbons is a perfect way.

Packing Personalized Favors

All the guests feel excited about the wedding favors. You can use ribbon to decor the gift; this will make your favor look pretty. For any kind, the decoration is very important and it doesn’t matter what kind of favors you pick but the way you decorate and present them that adds the personalized feeling.

You can use all these ideas for decoration using ribbons and in different ways and for different purposes, crafts and projects.

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How to Tie a Personalized Favor Ribbon as a Bow?

When it comes to giving a certain item or object a special touch and feel of personalization, we always look to create something unique, different and elegantly beautiful. And ribbon is one such material that can be used in an endless inventive ways to give your craft a new touch and feel of incredibility.

Presenting someone a gift or especially a wedding favor to someone needs you to put your thought into how you can make the covering appeal to them. Implementing an inspired strategy and using the versatile ribbon, it can be achieved quickly and efficiently in easy steps. Here, we will guide you on how to tie a bow on a personalized favor ribbon.

What you Need?

• The favor bag
  
• Ribbon in color or print that matches well with the bag outer appearance and with your message, name initials or whatever you want imprinted on the ribbon

Steps to Tie Bow

1. Make a loop with the ribbon, but make sure to intersect above the personalization name or message.
   
2. Now hold the loop and bring it down to the point of intersection in a way that the inside of the ribbon top is touching the back of the intersection point.
   
3. Tie the favor with the curling ribbon and against this knot place the bow in place carefully.
   
4. Now tie the bow with the curling ribbon tails. The knot should not be too firm or too loose; it must be just in degree to hold the ribbon position securely. Add another knot to keep it secured and for avoiding any future chance of the knot being slipped open.
   
5. Now you just need to curl the ends of the curling ribbon and get your bow done perfectly.
   
6. Repeat this procedure for other favor bags and presents as well. Simple, easy and quick.

This method can be attempted for a small or big favor bag, picking the varying relative size ribbon. And if you want to tie the bow using a hang tag, you can include that too in the bow by sliding the hang tag through the ribbon.

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