Ribbon Board Tutorial

I have a fun project idea I thought that I would share with you. This week I've been busy getting projects and other things ready for our booth at CHA. We leave next week and I can hardly believe it! It seems like ages ago that we signed up to exhibit. Anyway, this week I've been working on these ribbon boards to display samples in our booth. They are so fun and easy...and cute too!

Supplies:
Pre-made canvas (I used a 14" square canvas)
Batting cut to fit the size of the canvas
Piece of cloth that is big enough to wrap around the canvas
Nails and thumbtacks
Ribbon
Decorative brads (I used brads by Making Memories)
Paper piercer and scissors

Step One: Place pre-cut batting on topside of canvas, flip canvas and batting over and place on top of pre-cut material. Make sure the side of material you want to be seen is facing down.

Step Two: Wrap the material around the canvas frame and secure with nails or thumbtacks. Do this on all four sides of canvas frame.

Step Three: With a thumbtack, on the back of the canvas, secure end of ribbon onto a corner. Bring ribbon around the front and across the board in a diagonal direction, and attach to the backside of that corner. Do this again with the other corners. Make a criss cross pattern with the ribbon making sure to attach each end in the back with a thumbtack.

Step Four: Pierce the middle of each intersection with a paper piercer making sure to go through each layer. (Material, batting, and canvas.) Poke decorative brad through the pierced hole and secure on the backside of the canvas.

Viola! You have your own handcrafted ribbon board! :) To hang the board, either attach a saw tooth hook to the back, or attach a thicker ribbon to the backside of the canvas using thumbtacks.

I hope I've made sense. :) Please let me know if you have any questions on this project idea. Thanks for stopping by!