Hello wednesday - Flower chocolates
18/04/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Mollie and I made a bunch of these flowers for Rachie for Easter...............not sure they lasted very long!
Just a little bit of fun with ribbon and chocolate - can not get any better then that!!
Todays challenge creations are from Kara who selected the blue ribbons.
This little bib card is adorable Kara, I opened it slightly so you could all see how it opens.
This is a fun jolly card Kara, I love the extrs score lines around the edge, really frames the card. Thank you for joining in with the challenge Kara, I still have more designs to share with you. So please do not worry if I have not show -cased yours yet.
Have a great fun day.
Washing creations from around the world
17/04/2012
We had a very international response to our baby washing challenge. Todays challengers are from France, England, Sweden and America.
The first two photos are from Caroline in France.
Caroline choose the pink selection of ribbons, she made this for her friend who is having twins.
Great cross stitch Caroline, I hope your friend likes it.
Jans choice of ribbons were pink, I think this is a super layout Jan it shows the ribbons off beautifully.
This lime card Jans is divine. The colour match is super and fresh.
Just as it says on the ribbon CUTE. Great image Charlotta and just a hint of ribbon to pull the design together, perfect.
WOW you are talented Charlotta, this is an easel style card. Not been brave enough to make one of these yet! I love the way you have used buttons and ribbon to enhance the bunting, great fun.
Another easel card from Charlotta, great colour combo and super creations from Sweden.
Christinas creations suffered the journey all the way from America, undamaged I will add. Hello cute - how cool is that. As for the stitching to spell Drew (bet you missed that detail) wicked idea Christina.
WOW this has taken you some time Christina, it is awesome, so much detail. Wicked creation.
This was a little note that Christina sent me, but I had to share with you all. Am I correct Christina that the blue and white is fabric? Fab idea if it is, gives the card such a baby feel!
Thank you girls for joining in with our challenge, I hope you all had fun playing with the ribbons. I am pleased to say these ribbons are very popular on the website, just what we had hoped for.
Have a great day, what ever you are up too!
DVD winner is......
16/04/2012
Before I tell you who has been pulled from our "Bingo" bag, I have a wonderful selection of creations to share with you from Leslie and Linda. Both girls chose the blue ribbons.
A very elegent card Leslie, I love the way you are pulled into the centre of the card.
Super cute with the little trousers in the centre Leslie, very clever.
Oooooh fantastic Linda, this bunting is really special. Not sure my knitted triangles would all end up the same size. My scarfs always had one end wider then the other!! Brilliant idea Linda.
You really are testing my camera skills here Linda, another wicked idea. What did you use to create the top circle?
Thank you Linda and Leslie for your delightful goodies, some super inspiration for us all. And a big thank you to everyone that left a comment for us this weekend, but as always there can only be one winner.........
Sydney picked todays winner, although I pounced on her just as she put a big chewy sweet into her month! Poor thing, having an auntie like me!!
Number 26 =Anne-Marie Lewis
Ooooo....looks lovely! thanks for the chance...fingers crossed!
Well done you have a copy of our NEW DVD and a super selection of ribbons that I used on the projects. Please email us on rachie.craftyribbons@gmail to claim your prize.
Thank you to everyone that super cool comments, we do LOVE comments!
Friday Freebie - DVD and Ribbons
13/04/2012
Morning everyone, how are you all?
With all the buzz we have created with the launch of our DVD there could only be one prize for this weeks Friday FREEBIE!
I have to tell you a little story about these tulips........Do you remember Tony and I went to Holland last year for a little holiday. I took so many pictures (as you do) and I decided later in the year to turn our downstairs cloakroom into a photo gallery.
I got some wonderful black square picture frames and selected the best of the photos to put in them. They go all the way around the room. It is the first thing you notice when you walk in, everyone seems to take much longer in that room!! But I wanted some tulips to go in the window. I am not a fan of silk flowers, so thought I would find some really nice tulips. Well I looked for weeks, I had Bev searching the internet (Bev is the queen of internet shopping!) but even she could find nothing.
So I gave up, but my window looked so plain. I must have been doing a bit of moaning to Tony one eveing because he simple said "Make some". Ummmmmmmmm..............so I did, and now you can too.
Included with the DVD we will also give a selection of the ribbons used in the projects featured. So you too can make your own tulips.......they really are very simple, and the best bit about the DVD is you can pause it!! I like! So for a chance to win, just leave a comment below, any problems with our spam filter, just send your comment to rachie at rachie.craftyribbons@gmail.com as I will not have internet this weekend.
Hope you are still enjoying all the wonderful creations made for our Baby washing challenge, todays goodies have been made by Karen. Glad to hear things are busy at work Karen, your shop sounds just the place I would love to visit.
Oooh, oooh where did you get those scrabble tiles.....I want!! Super card Karen.
This is unique Karen, a mini clip frame for the grandchildren. I would agree with your sentiment Karen, Monkey world was a pleasure last week! I love the way the ribbon leads your eye to the photo, wicked.
I hope you have a super weekend and the weather is kind to us.
I have been struggling with my camera compact flash card all morning, hence the lateness of this posting. So no more photos for today!
If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters (comment disappears when screen is refreshed), please email it to rachie.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.
Our Challenge Blog - Things with wings
12/04/2012
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.
Maja is hosting this NEW Challenge, she has a love of butterflies so has named her challenge...
Things with Wings
.........and would like us to use butterflies, maybe a fairy or two, angels.......I think you get the idea. I have been playing around with some NEW Satin Ribbon and this idea just flew into my mind!
Just two lengths of ribbons that I have folded and sewed to make two little bow ties, then joined them together with a stitch.
Here is a close up so you can see the details. The body is made from beads and wire - I wanted to do a tutorial for you, but my thumb complained about making these two butterflies. So I did what I have been told to do by the Docs to get my thumb better and STOPPED. It is responding to the new treatment, although I do look a bit like a parcel wrapped up with black tape!
The design girls have come up with some super inspiration again (thanks girls) why not pop over and have a peak
HERE, while you are looking around why not join in with us on this new challenge.
This NEW Satin Ribbon is the ribbon I used to make the roses for the Wedding cake on our DVD. I must admit this wedding cake did look fab. I say that in the past tense as the cake has been eaten. We gave the bottom tier to Janets craft club to have a slice with their cuppas, the top tier we all had with our morning coffee and the middle tier ummmmmmm a certain person begining with a T has been enjoying it! NOBODY was allowed to touch the cake until we had comfirmation from the videoing team that all was well.
The Satin Ribbon can be found
here, the Rose tutorial is
here and the DVD is
here. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did the cake!
Challenge goodie time, todays selection of creations are from Sharon.
I do like the simplicity of this card Sharon, perfect colour match with the papers and ribbons.
"Mum to be" how fab is that, I love the softness the sheer ribbon gives this card Sharon.
You do work with some fun images Sharon, fantastic.
Adorable Sharon, such a wicked combo of colours, image and ribbons.
This is such a super idea Sharon. Two flannels that have been sewn together to make a taggie.
Fantastic work Sharon thank you so much for all your wonderful creations.
That's me done for another day, meet you all back here tomorrow for the Friday FREEBIE!
Hello wednesday - Traditional meets Technology
11/04/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
I do like mixing things about, some call it "thinking outside of the box", others "just playing" around!
Traditional - Take the art of Ribbon Embroidery - it dates back many hundreds of years. Flowers embroidered in soft pure silk ribbons would adorn garments and quilts for decoration.
Technology - Take the mobile phone - Tony had one of the first mobiles to arrive in the UK it was like a mini suitcase!! But now they are slim and fit into your pocket.
What do you get if you put the two together.......................................................
.................something a little bit different?! Not for those of us that stuff phones in their pockets, but maybe for an "evening" phone cover!
I did embroider three cases, but sadly the purple one went walkabout at the Olympia Exhibition. How ever I hope it has been given a good home, (it has a large lilac flower and cross stitch leaves), who ever has it I hope you are enjoying it!
Have you given ribbon embroidery a try yet? Want to but not sure where to start? Then our NEW downloads could be for you. The Lupin Pot above is called Surface Ribbon Embroidery and can be found here, the Ribbon Roses are also embroidered and can can be found here, the purple one that is missing showed you Ribbon Stitch and can be found here.
Yes we do have the iPhone covers for you to embroider. They were designed for Cross Stitch and come with 5 embroidery threads, a needle and a booklet of charts. Four colours - Black, Red, Purple and Pink and they can all be found here. (Only suitable for iPhone 4 and 4s).
I have been struggling with my camera compact flash card all morning, hence the lateness of this posting. So no more photos for today!
Weekend of catch up
10/04/2012
What a busy weekend we had, fantastic chance to catch up on all those jobs that never seem to get done.
Ever since we blew up our mail server up a few weeks back, we have been experiencing problems. Some of our wonderful followers have not been receiving emails, they have been bouncing back to us - telling us the email no longer existed. So over the weekend our IT guys have been moving all of our followers and customers details onto a new system. It is really quiet exsiting for us, although I am having to learn new software which I hate.
Anyway, did you see our NEW DVD? There are some super projects on there 12 in total, and yes the Tulips on the front cover are made from ribbon!! We had planned to only shoot 11 projects, but I wore my button necklaces in all the videos (yes you do get to see me, I even do an intro on the DVD) that we decided to show you how to make the necklace. Do you want to watch it? If so click the little triangle in the centre of the screen.
What do you think? It has a long way to go to catch up with our Ribbon Carnation video, that has had over 344,000 views on YouTube. Rock on Tommy!! Thanks everyone.
All 12 videos can be downloaded straight from our site HERE, so you do not have to wait for Mr Postie and you can just download the ones that are your "thing". As you can imagine we get asked lots of question on "How to" with ribbon especially at the exhibitions, so this is how the DVD came about.
"How do you tie a bow" is the most asked question - simple if you know, if not then this clip is for you! Bows are here.
Thanks to everyone that left super comments on the blog and also Facebook, it was great to read them all. So who has won the £25 Friday FREEBIE (Please check Facebook if you liked our page to see if you won there)
Sam did the honours for me today, with that cheeky smile of his!! He picked number..................
Number 45 = Julie Swann
What a fab bunch of ribbons and a perfect way to celebrate spring, Easter and my 50th birthday which was this weekend. Hope you all have a fab Easter break. xx
Somebody was looking down on you this weekend Julie, you have £25 to spend on our website, any ideas what you will buy? Please send me an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com to claim your voucher.
What with the email problem and launching the DVD I am rather behind on sharing all the wonderful creations from the challenge. So sorry for the delay this is a little taster to jog your memories...
Andrea made this delightful Tattie teddy card - adorable Andrea thank you.
More creations tomorrow, I promise.
Today is the day.....
07/04/2012
.......our Top secret project is revealed.
Does excatly what it says on the box. 1hour 36mins of pure ribbon fun!
You can find all the details here
Enjoy
Friday FREEBIE - Easter voucher
06/04/2012
Hello everyone and Happy Easter to you all.
As it is the first Friday of the month (voucher Friday) and it is Easter we thought of giving you all a little extra...........
.......£25 voucher could be yours to spend on our website. All you have to do is leave us a comment (refresh screen to make sure it has not been eaten, any problems just email the comment to us craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will add it for you).
But that is not all................there is another £25 voucher that could be yours on Facebook..........
........just like the facebook post for the voucher. You can find our facebook Page here or www.facebook.com/craftyribbons
We will pick the two winners on Tuesday, so good luck 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 Tuesday.
Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.
FREE Spring Ribbons
05/04/2012
We LOVE Spring at Crafty Ribbons.....
....and we want to send you some of our LOVE, Spring Ribbon Love that is -
place an order of over £10.00 between today and Easter Monday and you will receive
a bundle of Spring Ribbons FREE.
Flowers - Butterflies - Stripes - Plains - Wire Edged - Sheer - Satin
10 different ribbons all 1mtr long
A FREE bag of Spring Ribbons will be put into every order over £10 excluding postage (£13.25 with postage) -
no codes needed or special vouchers, the girls have been busy making Crafty Ribbons FREE Spring Ribbon Bags ready to add to orders!
FREE Spring Ribbons from today until Easter Monday - Have fun and play with some FREE Spring Ribbons.
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