Friday Freebie - First Friday of May
04/05/2012
WOW time does fly when you are having fun playing with ribbons!!
I love this time of year, it is the end of our financial year, so we have to do a stock count. Most people hate this job, but I just love it............not the counting bit.....or the scary bit - we have THAT MUCH ribbon. No the bit I like best is going up and down the aisle touching all the ribbons, re-organizing it and putting it back neat and tidy. I get a chance to look at all my wonderful ribbons!!!!
YOU have two ways this weekend of getting your hands on some of our ribbon. The FIRST is we have FREE UK Delivery on orders over £15 placed over the Bank Holiday Weekend.
Place an order from today until midnight on Bank Holiday Monday and just enter weekend into the voucher box during checkout.
A £3.25 discount will be applied to your basket.
This code will also give all our overseas customers a £3.25 discount
The SECOND way to play with our ribbons is to enter our Friday FREEBIE by leaving a comment below. As today is the first Friday of the month it is VOUCHER FRIDAY.
We will pick a winner on Tuesday from our "Bingo" bag like normal. Any problems leaving a comment, just email us at craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will add it for you.
Some of you may have noticed that Bev has a NEW Ribbon Bag - it is up as candy on our NEW Inspiration Blog here .
Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag is called "Vintage" and is full of soft mauve, peach, rosy colours with a hint of gold, cream and tan ribbons. Twenty different ribbons all 1mtr long for the amazing price of just £5.00. You can find Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag here. Don't forget that we launched the NEW Vintage Button Box on Wednesday and you can find it here.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone, hope the weather stays kind to you all. We have a big event in Blandford this Bank Holiday Monday - A Georgian Fair. Not been for a few years, so if the rain stays away I will be there!
Crafty Ribbons pure Inspiration Blog
03/05/2012
Crafty Ribbons have launched a new inspiration blog, called.......
To kick off our new inspiration blog we are offering some fabulous ribbon candy.....
If you would like to win these gorgeous ribbons..then all you need to do is become a follower of the blog, for every 100 followers we get we will draw a winner so please pass the details on. The more followers the more candy and the more chances to win. Leave your name with Mr Linky on the Inspiration blog and when we hit that magical 100 followers we will get Random Org to draw a winner so it could be you and should we get to 200 followers well we'll draw another winner and so on.....
We will be checking to make sure you are a follower, if not a new winner will be drawn.... If you don't have a blog that is fine just become a follower and then leave your name with Mr Linky skipping the URL details.
There is a further reason to become a follower we are holding a fabulous event from the 18th May until 2nd June to celebrate.......
Now if you take the blinkie above and put it in your sidebar you can have a second entry to win the fabulous ribbons above, just leave your name a second time with Mr Linky on the Inspiration blog here.
Every day we will be highlighting a different British Craft Company or Shop, the Design Team will be posting cards/projects on their blogs daily using products from the Companies and Shops. There will also be a prize each day from the highlighted Company up for grabs. That is 16 prizes and you can enter each day. Only one entry per person per day to make it fair, so make sure to become a follower, check back regularly for some gorgeous inspiration and more info on our Best of British event. Remember to come back on the 18th May to join in the fun with us and for your chance to win more prizes from all the fabulous Companies and shops who are joining in with us....
WOW we have lots planned!!
The Crafty Team, Mandy and our fantastic design team girls.
Hello wednesday - vintage blooms
02/05/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
I have been playing with our NEW Button Boxes............
.......these are from the NEW Vintage colour way here. A dreamy, creamy selection of buttons - perfect for that vintage look or for all those wedding cards.
I teamed the buttons up with a maroon seam binding here and the flower leaves were embroidered (yes through card) with our 7mm silk ribbon here.
The backing paper is from an old knitting pattern, I distressed it slightly but thought it was perfect for the buttons to sit on.
The other two NEW button boxes are Nursery and Rum Punch. Check out ALL the button Boxes HERE.
FREEBIE Winner of button boxes is...
30/04/2012
I am afraid that I have a sick bunny on my hands today. Poor Ali has come down with something and is not in today. So it is down to me to do the Bingo Bag pick myself. Its happening live so to set the picture....
A sun kissed restaurant patio in the Italian lakes with the surrounding snow cap mountains. Man closely resembling George Clooney is handed the bag, he is delving in it and has picked...... No.35. Well thats not too far from a sandwich in the front office of the warehouse is it. I can but dream.
Number 35 = WendY
Buttons and surprises - what a great combination. Thanks for the chance to win. WendY x
Well done Wendy, can you e-mail your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com so that we can send the buttons off to you.
Wonderful comments this week. I hope that you were not all waterlogged at the weekend. The rain finally stopped in Dorset at about 6.00pm yesterday, just in time to think about back to work!!!
Thank you all so much for your support
Regards
Tony
Friday Freebie - Button surprise
27/04/2012
We had three new button boxes arrive in the warehouse yesterday, the colours are a surprise. Would anyone like some? Just leave a comment and we will pick a winner on Monday from our Bingo Bag.
Have a great weekend everyone.
If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters (comment disappears when screen is refreshed), please email it to craftyribbons@gmail.com
and we will add it for you. All the comments go into our "Bingo" bag and we draw a random number(s) on Monday.
Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.
Challenge blog - Orange, Pink and Yellow
26/04/2012
Thank you to everyone that joined in with our last challenge, hope you all had fun. Two weeks are up so it is time for a NEW Challenge on our Ribbon Challenge blog here.
Charlotta is hosting this NEW Challenge, she has picked a summery collection of.......
Orange, Pink and Yellow
.........ummmmm that got my ribbon taste buds going. With colours like that it had to Gingham ribbon for me.
A very simple card that took me ALL AFTERNOON to make, had no idea what I was up too. It was only when Sydney came home from school and joined me in my craft room that ribbons and buttons got attached, card was selected and cut. Think I needed my little craft buddy to give me a push!!
I used 15mm gingham ribbon (here) to make the ribbon rossettes and then picked a few buttons from our Button Boxes here. I like! Anyone fancy joining in with our NEW Challenge? Easy to do just make a card your project around the theme of Orange, Pink and Yellow - you could win yourself some ribbons!! Read more here.
What can aperture cards be used for?
Bet you never thought of that!!!
Hello wednesday - Sam is the star!
25/04/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Bev got news this week that Sam has a place at the same Primary School as Sydney - he starts in September. I made this for Sam.
Red is Sam's favorite colour - so a RED STAR had to be used here, and a little bit of red ribbon here. I wanted to keep the card very clean and simple, I think it looks great.
I hope Sam likes it!
Last few touches
24/04/2012
I have spent the morning putting the last few touches to a NEW range of ribbons................oooh I wish I could share my excitement with you.................BUT not just yet. You will have to wait a little while, BUT they will be well worth waiting for though, nobody and I do mean NOBODY has anything like my new babies!!!!
We do have lots of other exciting things going on, Mandy who runs the challenge blog for us has been a real busy bee and we have a massive event planned soooooon............ sorry it is going to be one of those days that I tempt you.
We had a wonderful comment (all comments are wonderful I will add!) left last night by Anne-Marie the winner of our Friday FREEBIE last week for a copy of our NEW DVD........
Thank you Anne-Marie, sorry for our little error! Tony and I had sneaked away for a few days, Rachie was so eager to keep the warehouse running smoothly she sent Anne-Marie's DVD to her the next day but forgot to add the ribbon!!!
If you would like another chance to win our NEW DVD then we have a prize running on Facebook this week, the draw will take place on Friday. Just like the DVD post here to join in.
We are nearly at the end of our baby washing line challenge, PHEW it has been a long one, the last parcel arrived back last week. Todays crafty creations are from Angela.
Angela this is a delightful, I love the way you have woven the ribbons over and under the main ribbons. A very clever technique, eveytime I look at this ribbon in the warehouse it makes me smile.
SUPER Cute Angela, I am so pleased that the washing line design has been used as WASHING! I adore the way you have highlighted the text ribbon with extra buttons Angela. I think these 3mm grosgrains make a change from the satin ribbon, I have been thinking of having more colours made for us - what do you think? Did or do you enjoy working with the 3mm grosgrain? Should we add more colours?
Ooooh any little girl would love to have this hanging in their bedroom Angela, it is delightful. It could also be used to attach hair bow grips and things too, would keep them nice and tidy.
Did you make the little girls Angela? Looks like ribbon and cord on a flat wooden button, great fun.
Thank you Angela for joining in with the Challenge, i am so sorry it has taken so long to share your creations. If I am correct I have only 3 other challenger collections to share, Leigh, Dorothy and Amanda. Please do not shout at me if I have forgotten anyone, just send me an email craftyribbons@gmail.com and i will search my Flash card.
No rain today, first time since January I had to drive to work yesterday - it was pouring down. I normally start to negotiate a lift home from one of the girls late afternoon, I even make tea if I am desperate for a lift. But Bev said she would run me home, it was only when we both opened the office door to go home................"Durrrrrr I have my car Bev!"
Swiss Dot winner is................
23/04/2012
What a fantastic weekend we had, it was rather hard to get back to work this morning. Sunday morning we decided to take our cameras to the local Bluebell Woods, for a walk and some photo fun. A long time since I have walked in Bluebells, coming from Oxfordshire where Beech trees and Bluebells are plentiful we were rather taken aback by the number of other people that had the same idea. It was a bit like "quick take a picture, nobody is coming!". But we did have a wicked fun time and have some super photo memories.
So back to work.............dots...................lots of dotty dots..........................who is going to win the collection of NEW Swiss Dots launched on Friday. Only Mollie came to see me this afternoon, so she had the pleasure of picking the number, I might add it was in between eating biscuits.........you can see all the crumbs on her school jumper.
Number 36 = kbrandy4
Yummy ribbon, thanks for the chamce!!
Hugs
Hazel xx
Hazel you are going to be seeing dots soon, please email us your details to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone that left super comments, sorry to hear you are still not good Carole we wish you better soon. Glad to hear you are busy making hair bows Janet and that you enjoyed the DVD. Congratulations Jan on your news - another grandchild.
Oooh SueJ brooches based on my cupcake tutorials that sounds interesting....................maybe you will share a picture or two with us.
Have a great evening.
Friday Freebie - Scrummy NEW Swiss Dots
20/04/2012
Thought I would let the picture do the talking.........................
Scrummy NEW Grosgrain Swiss Dot ribbons are being added to the site today..............would you like to receive a FREE Bundle of all the colours? They will be HERE once added!
Just leave us a comment and you will be added to our "Bingo" Bag for Mondays draw.
Have a great weekend.
If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters (comment disappears when screen is refreshed), please email it to craftyribbons@gmail.com
and we will add it for you. All the comments go into our "Bingo" bag and we draw a random number(s) on Monday.
Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.
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