Surprise for who?
06/09/2012
Friday FREEBIE winner is........................................
Number 23 = Ardilla
Yeah! I love surprises... and I know it would be great! I really love Christmas 
Hi Ardilla please can you email me on rachie.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address. I have a bundle of Christmas ribbons for you! Thanks to everyone that left Bev and I a message this week, great to hear from you all.
Phew what a day.......Ali came back from France bursting with ideas so that I feel I have been chasing my tail all day. Although we are pleased to see her nearly back to her old self. The French picnic lunch they brought us back was wicked, yum, yum, yum!
Rachie x x x
Friday FREEBIE - Christmas surprise
31/08/2012
Do you like surprises?.....................
Do you like Christmas surprises?..................
Leave a comment with us and you will go into our Bingo bag to win.............
.........a SURPRISE bundle of our NEW Christmas ribbons.
Included will be the ribbons Ali has crafted with this week.
Have a great weekend
Rachie, Bev and the 3 little monsters angels!
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Challenge blog - Sketch
30/08/2012
I really do think a great big chunk of my life has disappeared, it is already time for a new challenge over on our challenge blog. Our fab Dawn has decided it is time for a sketch, why not pop over and see what our fab design team have come up with, you can see them here.
This is how I followed the sketch, not perfect but not bad for a one armed crafter!
ALL made from ribbon I might add. I did my normal trick with the poinsettia...........
.................not bad? You can find the NEW poinsettia ribbon here, the NEW gold swirl ribbon is here, the Happy Christmas velvet one is here. And for the life of me and I can not remember which gold ribbon I used for the centre, but I am sure you will find a nice one here.
There is a super prize if you enter our challenge this time.....................
...........................nope not telling. You will just have to go and have a look - here THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET!
Hello wednesday - 3D Snowman
29/08/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
It has been a while since our last hello wednesday. Where has the time gone? I said I was going to give you a little tease while I was away. No I am not posting this from France, I had to fight hard to be able to take my camera bag, so there was no way Tony was going to let me pack my laptop and dongle!!
Yes the Snowman is made from ribbon, I have just decoupaged him to make him 3d. This little guy has two other friends with different scarves, I used the same method as normal to cut him out - details here.
The card is made from nothing BUT ribbon - the red bauble ribbon can be found here, NEW of course! The snowman ribbon is here, the little sentiment ribbon is not on the site, but if you call the girls 01258 455889 I am sure they will be able to help. It will be going on the site on my return.
Have fun
Baby's 1st Christmas winner......
28/08/2012
Did you hear our shouts? Shouts and screams of joy? You must have done, they were rather loud................
Our first consignment of EXCLUSIVE Christmas ribbons arrived today.................. sorry Joanne I am not up to speed to do a Christmas week like last year, but I do promise to tease, just a little!
Onto the winner of this weeks Friday FREEBIE is..............................
Number 6 = Kara
Hi Ali, whilst you're up there in the clouds will you please flick a switch and turn off the rain. Its pouring down here. Great ribbon would love to win xxx
Congratulations Kara, you are todays winner please email rachie.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address details. I am sorry I was unable to turn the rain off all weekend, but hope you had a good sunny Sunday, we did here in Dorset.
Thank you to everyone that left us a super comment, I am glad some of you know where I am coming from!! Tony has decided that I am doing too much, and not resting my arm. He has filled my kindle with a mountain of books and is taking me to France for a few days. Hoping I can chill and go with the flow of the pills....................will I want to come back?
Take care everyone.
Friday FREEBIE - its a first!
24/08/2012
Morning everyone how are you today? Me, I am flying high, sadly I have to stay on the nerve drugs for my arm for another month and they make me a bit weird!!! But I could quite get used to living in the clouds.
Ooooooooh you did like our New Christmas ribbon yesterday - thank you for all the orders. I am sure you realised (as you know I am a bit of a tease with Christmas) there are lots more designs coming your way. Would you like to see another NEW design? It is not quite ready to go live on the website, but I thought I would give you a sneak peak. Close your eyes then................here it comes...............................
Hands up who would like this ribbon? Well, two ribbons a 38mm and a matching 15mm, both on grosgrain and once again Exclusive to me, sorry that should read Crafty Ribbons! I have 2mtrs of both of these designs, yep only 2mtrs that's all Tony would let me buy, no only joking, the main shipment should be with us Tuesday.
So if you would like to be the FIRST person in the country world to hold this charming ribbon in your hands then leave us a comment. We will pick a winner from our bingo bag on Tuesday.
What you doing this weekend, anything exciting? Me, I will be playing with all my new Christmas ribbons..............................
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Christmas Happy Family.........................NEW
23/08/2012
Hi everyone, sorry we have not been around much but we have all been very busy.........................getting Christmas ready!!
We have today launched our Christmas Happy Family ribbon and they say "Happy Christmas with love x".
I had great fun designing this ribbon, it is a true pen and ink design. Both ribbons are printed onto pure white grosgrain and are EXCLUSIVE to us. The red on each design has been raised during the print process so it even feels as if it is coloured in. Just two simple fun designs that we have co-ordinated with mini AND micro heart buttons, 3mm white grosgrain, black satin and a new fab narrow taffeta ribbon in red. All three are perfect for tag ribbons or enhancing your cards and projects. But not only that look at this....................
For the first time EVER we have papers to match!!! So no longer will you have to hunt around for co-ordinating papers, we have done all the hard work for you. There are seven designs to the Digi Paper Collection.
You download the collection once and print off as many copies as you want. Simples. You just add them to your basket like normal and download them from your account.
I really hope you like this new Christmas design, if you want to have a poke about, then you can find the Collection here. As an extra bonus we have FREE postage (on all orders over £15, ecxluding postage, just enter august into the voucher section) until the end of the month........well a little early Christmas spirit from our very own Bah Humbug!!!
Who has won Gold?
20/08/2012
Friday FREEBIE winner is....................
Number 2 = Carole
Hi Ali, glad you are getting back !!!!!. I love the gold just right for Christmas, I am not a lucky person and never win much. Sending a [[[Hug}}} take care, love Carole Lockhart. XXX
Well done Carole, this time you are lucky, you have a big bundle of gold ribbons, all we need is your address please to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone that left us wonderful comments this weekend, super to read.
First time we have seen Mollie in over a week, she has Chicken Pox and has been a poor bunny, but is getting back to normal. Ali is fed up of going to the hospital, 3 visits last week and another three this week. She got a gold star today from the physio, she has regained 100% movement in her elbow, even through it is badly bruised. She makes me laugh, I took her to Portland on Sunday, a nice drive out with a scone at the lobster pot on Portland Bill. She sits in the car doing these weird looking stretching things with her hand, very distracting to start with, but it seems to be working.
We have a bit of a buzz in the warehouse this week.................I think Christmas is coming..........................
Tony x
Friday FREEBIE - Lots of Gold
17/08/2012
Hello everyone I am back, well sort of back, half back, here now and again sort of back!
Please excuse any extra typo's you may find, typing is not easy and as for mouse control...............well, my brain knows what to do but as for my hand. I am having to re educate my right hand to do everything. Poor Tony comes home from work, and I am all excited look, look what I can do, as I touch my little finger with my thumb!! I feel like a little child full of excitement having just learnt how to stand on one leg, only for the parent to say "well done" in a distracted sort of voice. I want fireworks to be set off and a round of applause, maybe I will get that when I can work out how to use scissors again.
Rachie got so inspired with the gold and silver medals that we achieved in the Olympics that she decided to start to put all our special golds and silvers onto the site.........I did warn her it would be a long job. You can find lots of new gold ribbons here .
If you fancy an extra bumper collection of gold, silver and copper ribbons then please leave a comment below. Rachie still has more to upload to the site, not a job she would normally do (my work) but she is doing a briallant job, as are all the other girls. I did try and help yesterday, we had a sudden rush of orders since the close of the Olympics and the team were struggling to dispatch them in time. I wanted to be useful so I was picking the ribbons from the shelves for the girls to cut, lining the orders up so they only had to measure and cut. After a while Rachie said "don't bother to put the ribbons away Ali, we can do that". Ahhh I was touched, she did not want me to get over tired.
I was feeling very pleased with myself, I helped the girls and lots of extra orders had been shipped. During a tea break in the afternoon, I said how did I do? Giggling broke out..........I gather I had caused chaos, I had picked the wrong colours, forgotting what I was doing. They gave me 4/10 but 10/10 for effort. Thanks girls!
Have a great weekend everyone.
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Challenge blog - feeling fruity
16/08/2012
Boy will I be in trouble, I completely forgot to write this post. Ali did remind me, but it went straight out of my head.
The girls have a new challenge starting today over on our challenge blog here
FEELING FRUITY
Sydney my niece designed this card, using just ribbons and buttons, just in case you were a little unsure it is a Strawberry Man! The strawberry ribbon can be found here, sorry but I can not find the strawberry buttons on the site, but the little sentiment ribbon is here. She used Ali's special pens to create the spots on the sides of the card.
Wicked work Sydney, your strawberry man looks very happy, I just wish your Auntie Ali was as happy.
I have been told to tell you we are having something called a DT call, I gather it is not painful!! You can find out all about it by visiting our Challenge blog here,
Think I will wear my tin hat to go home in, this should have been posted at 9 this morning!!!! Although it may not be as bad as when I told her last week, I wanted her to get better, as I was missing my annoying Ali.
Tony x
my basket