If you let your buttercream completely crust you shouldn’t have a problem with it soaking anything up from the buttercream. I guess it’s possible with a different recipe, but I’ve used 2 different crusting ones and neither of them effecting the ribbon, just the piping gel I used to attaching it here and there.
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