How I saved my relationship with Ribbon.

It is a well known fact that ribbon is one of the hardest things to organize in a crafter's tool box. As much as we love ribbon, the relationship can go sour quickly once our lovely spools so attractive and enticing all lined up in a color coordinated row at Michaels starts to look like this in our craft drawer...

And this

And this 

When our best attempts to organize results in an attempt to stuff it all in a bag...

You know you and ribbon have a serious problem.

Despite your greatest efforts to salvage the relationship, sometimes it becomes necessary to seek outside help. I found my help on Youtube, and combined the counsel of two wonderful ideas from these ribbon relationship survivors. "How I store my ribbon" by cherryjewl and "Ribbon Sotrage" by Ifarrarwhite. I also created my own twist on these ideas by creating my own ribbon cards to wrap my ribbon on. I will show you step by step how I did this in my next entry. The result in combining these two brilliant ideas saved my relationship with ribbon. Our love is reignited, I can't stop staring at all the beautiful colors and dreaming of the future projects we will share. It is a beautiful thing, no crafter could rightly deny the attraction.

A rainbow of crafting dreams.

Once again noticing the little things that made us fall in love in the first place, things like, bows.

My ribbon is no longer hiding from me in a rats nest of a mess in some drawer, quietly lamenting the cards that could have been, silently suffering over the scrapbook layouts it might have adorned, feeling unappreciated and ignored because I forgot I had baby blue ribbon that would have made a perfect addition upon my best friends gift for her new little boy.

Now my ribbon looks out proudly on the world, inspiring me with brilliant ideas for my next project, stirring in me the desire to create! Even the flowers, bling and buttons have gotten involved! They are all happily organized by color and love it! They each have a pocket in which to shine, and I know just where to find them when I need them! I suddenly feel an indescribable longing to go out and buy MORE ribbon to add to our happy family! Life is good!

So my fellow scrappers! What saved your relationship with ribbon? 

Or are you guys still looking for help to save your creative inspiration together?

Come back soon for more scrapbook, and crafting ideas!