New Challenge–Anything goes with ribbon
06/03/2014
A new Challenge starts today – Anything goes with Ribbon.
Look what Rebecca has designed.
How cool is that card – you could not find that in the shops!
Find the other design team creations and join in here.
Off to the show I go. First open day at the SECC.
Anyone coming to see me?
Hello wednesday–look book
05/03/2014
Another Wednesday and another month, 2014 is flying.
Today I am writing from Cumbria.
We drove from Dorset to here yesterday and are moving off to Glasgow as soon as I finish typing.
On our way to the SECC for the Hobbycrafts show – hope to see some of you there.
Today I have a look book for you, all creations for our wonderful Design team using our NEW Vintage Butterflies ribbons.
These ribbons have really hit the spot, you are loving them.
Hope you have enjoyed looking at the girls ideas and creations, you can find all their own blogs here
Enjoy your day, we have another few hours of driving to get to Glasgow.
We are off……..
04/03/2014
Lorry is loaded, exhibition stand all secured.
Rachie has given us so much stock we are not sure the wheels will go round!
Picnic lunch and flask (or fondly named the “Tanker”) is in the cab.
Where are we going……………….
…….we are off to SCOTLAND.
See you all there on Thursday.
If you still need tickets, you can get them here.
Friday FREEBIE–which one?
28/02/2014
Phew another busy week, think I will be happy just sitting in the lorry on Tuesday doing nothing!
It’s time to visit our Scottish customers next week you see.
Mega thanks for all your comments last week, it is really great to read what everyone has to say.
Not just me, I know that other blog readers enjoy reading the comments.
So lets make lots of people happy this week with extra comments to read.
The winner of last weeks Friday FREEBIE is……
Carol left this comment.
Loving the Butterfly collection Ali, they are brilliant, love Carole Lockhart Stuart.
Congratulations Carol, butterflies will be on there way to you soon,
all we need is an email to Bev bev.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address details.
You have until Thursday 6th March to claim your ribbons Carol.
Have you seen all the NEW goodies put on the website this week?
First to hatch were these……
Ooooh so cute, you guys have fallen in love with our Spring Owls.
They have been flying out of the door!
Next we were invaded…..
Aye Aye Captain…………Never say Never
Have you met our gang of Pirates and Captain “Big Nose”?
and then the very next day these little guys landed…...
Taken over by Aliens – the friendly kind!
Not finished yet, because today there was uproar in the warehouse…………the noise!
Cars, racing cars and trucks all jostling to find parking spaces!
Must have been male drivers, they all wanted to reverse into the spaces. It was chaos.
I hope you like all the new ranges, we worked really hard to design fun and inspirational ribbons
for you all to use. Do tell what you will make with them
Which range would you like to be popping through your letter box?
Do you have a favourite or would you like a range that is a little bit different from your norm?
Add your name to the list and leave a comment with your thoughts.
Very quiet in the office today, I have been told to rest my voice.
Maybe I will try and break the record for how many emails can be sent in one day!!
Have a great weekend.
Ooops wasn’t me
26/02/2014
We had an accident while loading the lorry in Metz – It wasn’t me!
We have 3 of these blue units, they contain our button displays.
What I mean to say is they contain our “LOOSE” buttons.
Tony and I take our time when loading the lorry.
Everything goes in, one by one. It is all secured so will not shift while in transit.
We have a long way to go, and after Metz a ferry crossing.
You could say we are rather slow.
So some kind French soul decided to help by pushing one of the button units to the lorry.
They are very heavy, and need to be pushed in a certain way…………
Have you guessed what happened?
Tony found a lady in floods of tears on her hands and knees with….
….thousands of buttons scattered across the floor.
While she was pushing the button unit, it had toppled over and she had lost control, and
it had fallen. It was smashed.
Tony and I recovered the unit, lifted back on to bogie and limped back to the lorry with it.
I was cool as cucumber – honest.
I have laryngitis again and the girls believe I shouted at the lady – but I did not.
We have tried sorting the buttons, but to be honest there are just too many. So………..
We have added Novelty Basics 2 Go buttons to the website. Find them here .
They are assorted and we can not tell what you may find in your selection,
it will be a nice surprise!
Ooooh and what about another one of these.
Go on grab a bargain………
Hello wednesday–look what’s hatched
26/02/2014
I have been playing………
It does not look very big here but it is…..
I designed it for a door stop, I used our Basics 2 Go heart buttons here
and…….
……I sneaked a new range of ribbons onto the website without telling you yesterday.
Our spring Owls have hatched! Find the little cuties here
The Christmas owls were so popular that we were asked to design a spring version.
But we had a bit of a dilemma – I designed this ribbon……..
but the next morning I came into the warehouse with this…….
Oooooh err which design to print.
Our little team were undecided and a complete draw for both.
So I asked the design team girls, hoping to get a definite decision as to which to print.
UNCONCLUSIVE was the out come – so we printed both colours!
I would love to know which is your favourite – do tell by leaving us a comment.
Friday FREEBIE–a choice of 3
21/02/2014
WOW! what a busy week……
On Monday I was almost 1000km away from home and since arriving back,
I have just launched 3 BRAND spanking New Collections to the website.
Have you seen them appearing in the last two days……………
No – well I will tell you all about them in a moment.
First off the winner of last weeks Friday FREEBIE of the Liberty Kits is…..
……..number 37
Congratulations number 37 - KT Fit Kitty, please email Bev bev@craftyribbons.com with your address details
and she will post you the Liberty Kits.
You have until Thursday 27th Feb to claim your ribbons number 37.
Do you want to see what I have been up to over the last few months…………
This collection was inspired by two of our Design team – Elaine and Cebelica,
both asking for butterflies and something vintage
Add a touch of vintage to your creations with our NEW Vintage Butterflies.
Grosgrain ribbon printed to create a vintage feel, from butterflies to birds, bikes to keys.
In a choice of either Cremé or Latte colours.
For that little extra "je ne sais quoi" add a ribbon message in French or English.
You can find this collection here
We sold out of some of the Liberty scissor Keepers while in France (we thought we would!).
But for once we were prepared and had 3 new colour ways in reserve.
These 3 new colours PLUS (my girls are wonderful) the first collection of 4 are
NOW BACK IN STOCK
and can be found here
and finally I have added this NEW Collection to the website this morning……
a collection for the boys! You can find them here
I can hear you cheering from Dorset.
Both the Vintage Butterflies and the Tractors Digger ribbons were well received in France,
I came very close to running out of a few designs.
Which would be your prize of choice for this weeks Friday FREEBIE…..
1. Vintage Butterflies
2. All 3 new colours of Liberty Scissor Keeper Kits
3. Tractor Digger Collection.
Leave us a comment with your thoughts and add your name to the list for a chance to win.
Have a fab weekend, looks like the sun may come out tomorrow.
Anyone fancy a free ticket to…….
20/02/2014
We have 10 FREE tickets to give away.
Would you like to come and see us at a show?
We will be at the Spring Knitting and Stitching show in March on stand H19
at Olympia London 13th - 16th March
You can find out more about the show here
Two simple steps for a chance of a free ticket.
1. Leave us a comment on this post.
2. Send Tony an email info@craftyribbons.com with your address details.
The first 10 people who complete both these steps first will sent a ticket.
Please only apply for a ticket if you are able to visit the show. These tickets are not for re-sale
Hello wednesday–scarp happy
19/02/2014
Hello everyone, I am back!
Ooh it is so good to be home, it has been long time since Tony and I did two exhibitions
back to back in France. Metz is along way from Dorset, right up on the German border.
We arrived back yesterday morning, off loaded the stand and then disappeared for the rest of the day.
I had a scrap request while in Paris.
Florence the girl that helps us, had brought in several photos and wondered if I could do a scrap
page for her. I have made several for her in the past, she tells me she likes my clean”English” style!
Sorry the photo is a bit pants, taken on the floor of the exhibition stand.
Remember I only had ribbons and buttons to play with. Florence had brought in a
couple of sheets of paper, she then scrounged some double sided tape and some glue from
fellow exhibitors.
First to be laid on the paper was the jingle bells ribbon, I thought it went well with the theme
of the photos.
Few more bits of ribbon this time swiss dots.
I added the heart buttons, but would really have liked to have put some white thread
through the holes, but I had none to use.
A few large buttons with 6mm grosgrain threaded through.
Finally a few ribbon loops.
Florence was a very happy bunny when I presented this too her on Sunday morning.
I am off now to have a play with my camera, I have a few new…………….ribbons to share with you.
We sent out the ribbons to our design team girls the day we left for Paris,
they have had two weeks to play and they are desperate to show you what they have made.
Till tomorrow….
………….it really is great to be home
New Challenge starts today
13/02/2014
WOW a week since we started back with our ribbon challenges.
Todays challenge can be found here
The theme this week is Ribbons and Bows.
Why not join in with the Bow Team and have some ribbon fun.
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