Hello wednesday - Valentine Card
19/01/2011
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Was just "Meant to be". Two into one.
I was really pleased with myself, I had made two Valentine cards in an evening. Remember I am not a card maker, so I do struggle a bit, this was a big achievement!
The first card was I thought very "clean and simple" a large red card with the sweetie heart ribbon running across the centre, white stitching around the outside.
I had been looking for my white pen so I could do some faux stitching around the edge, stupid me I was sat in front of my sewing machine - use that you silly thing!
I added the kiss me label of folded ribbon on the last whizz round. Finished, I loved it. By the way this Valentine Ribbon - Sweetie Heart is selling out fast, at the moment it is not repeatable.
Next was a smaller white card, I wanted to use some of the Alpha Tags and a bow. The tags were just perfect to portray my message of love.
I had also taken a shine to the NEW wide polka dot ribbon, not very valentinie, but it was a perfect colour match to bring all the elements of my card together.
I cut away the edges of the polka dot ribbon and frayed them slightly before sewing them onto the card using a zig zag stitch.
Tying the sheer bow and adding the tags was easly done with a few 3D foam pads. That's it card two finished. It all sounds very quick, but this had taken me several hours, putting the ribbon here, taking it off, moving it around a bit. I am sure you know what I mean.
I put them down on the table, ready to take into the office the next morning. Two Valentine projects completed and I was a week early!
The next morning I thought the fairies had waved their magic wand during the night, I woke up to find this card on my desk!!!
It was meant to be.......
New Mini Check Ribbons
18/01/2011
We all love gingham ribbon, it is perfect for so many different projects and is almost irresistable at Christmas time!
But what do you think of this new mini check.....
This mini check version is a new addition to our range. The ribbon is 5mm wide and the little checks are just over 1mm squares, making it perfect for miniature crafts. Fifteen different colours and all available in 1mtr lengths, so you can buy as little or as much as you want.
Alpha Tags have designed super colour co-ordinating mini tags to compliment this NEW range.
The tags are smaller then before at just over 5cms high and come in packs of 8.
Ribbons and tags - a winning team! View them all HERE.
The Crafty Team
Stormy weekend
17/01/2011
Did anyone else have the storm over the weekend? We live on top of a hill, and it is windy at the best of times, but the storm was awful. I could hear it whipping around the house, the dustbin lids went flying, clanging their way across stones. Sadly the storm has ruined my garden, it's very young and not at all established, we only planted it last March. My cordylines are all wrecked, the Jasmines have been wrenched from the trellis - so feeling rather down.
Only way I could think off to make me feel better was, a bit of retail therapy, no not for me - but ribbons!!!! So a nice big order has been placed for the Grosgrain Swiss Dot ribbons, our stocks had become rather depleted after the Christmas rush. It made me feel much better, and if I sell the ribbons I can go and buy more plants!!! Hurrray.
Playing with Sydney and Mollie after school also cheered me up, and I made them both carry cots for their babies - boxes with ribbon handles, well what else. Time goes so quickly when I am having fun and we had forgotton to do the Friday FREEBIE draw. So it was all a bit of a rush before they all went home. The winner of a bundle of Valentine ribbon is.........
.....Mollie had run off with the "Bingo" bag but a least she had left the winning number...
......who is number 10?.....
Number 10 = Louise
Oooh Yes! I would LOVE to win some of those!
Best wishes,
Louise.
Hi Louise, we do hope you like lots of LOVE, because that's what we will be sending you. Please email us your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com so we can send you our LOVE!
Huge thanks for everyone that left such lovely comments, we do appreciate all the LOVE you sent.
Friday FREEBIE - 2
14/01/2011
Another week gone, another week of playing with fantastic ribbons.
I finally manged to put all the NEW Valentine ribbons on to our website yesterday, you can find them all HERE, just look out for the red NEW badge. Alpha Tags have also designed a NEW range of tags for us, the Valentine ones are the first to hit the site, and they are full of LOVE!!
Would you like a play with some Valentine ribbons? Then why not leave a comment, as we have a bundle of Valentine ribbons for this weeks Friday FREEBIE prize. Red, white, cream, with and without hearts, we also have a wide wire edge saddle stitch in red. the first thing bev said when she saw it was, "is that all the stock you have, you should have bought more Ali"......ummmmmph sorry Bev a new order has been placed.
So come on, how about leaving us a comment, we love your comments. Have a fab weekend.
If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters, please email it to craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will add it for you. All the comments go into our "Bingo" bag a we draw a random number 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.
What an idea
13/01/2011
.....what do you think of Tilda in her dress and sari?
.....I think she is adorable. Tilda was created by Tina using ribbons from our January Pack Sale (here), what a clever idea.
Thank you Tina for sending the pic and allowing me to share her. If you have been creative with your sale ribbons then please do email us a picture craftyribbons@gmail.com as we would love to see and share them.
All the Sweet Treat ribbons were sent out yesterday (ooops my mistake, I was not in the office yesterday so they must have been sent Tuesday!!!). I know that Gail has received hers and already ripped open the envelope and started crafting. One card already finished but she is unsure whether her daughter Samantha will allow her to send it to me!!!! Tricky one Gail.
Hello Wednesday - Paper Heart
12/01/2011
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's back, hello wednesday! Just found our blog over the christmas break? Every wednesday we have a little project with ribbon, sometimes nothing but ribbons, others like todays the ribbon is an add on to the craft. Click back every wednesday (and other days in between if you can) and see what we have for you.
Hearts - it is that time of year - but this one is a little bit special and took hours of work!
Just paper, ribbon and a little bit of lavender. Ooooh and hours of spare time! Pergamano.
The heart is made up with the same design on both sides, which I then sewed together using 7mm silk ribbon (here). I put a little lavender in the centre (here), and finally added a bow of silk at the top. The finishing touches were easy.
I am a little late with adding the NEW Valentine ribbons to the site, we only have a few, with luck they should be on the site by tomorrow.
Have a great day.
First Winner of the New Year
10/01/2011
My delivery arrived today, the warehouse became full of yummy scrummy sweet treat ribbons. Boxes and boxes of ribbons were ooozing out of of the loading bay, it has taken me most of the day to check them all in. If you were lucky to make the NEW Sweet Treat Challenge, then your ribbons will be posted tomorrow. I am sorry that there were so many disappointed bloggers that missed out, as it was my counting expanded to beyond 15!! But we have put our thinking caps on to see if we could do something else as well - not sure what!
One lucky commentor is about to receive a £20 gift voucher - it could be you...... we had a short break in the rain this afternoon, so I scooped up Syd and Mollie and took them outside to pick the winner for me. They are right pair, and kept running off with the "Bingo" bag, I finallly caught them up and snapped this photo. Rachie will kill me, Mollie is covered in chocolate.
Our First Friday FREEBIE winner of the New Year is........
The lucky winner is Number 42 = Karen
What a great Friday Freebie to start the New Year with 
Please add me into the draw as I would love the chance to win £20 to spend in your fabby shop - Thank You.
Congratulations Karen you have a £20 voucher to spend on our website, all you have to do to claim is to email us at craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will send you all the details. I have just remembered we have not posted off the prizes for last weeks pack winners - I am so sorry they will go tomorrow. We have been a little bit busy with the January pack sale and I totally forgot. Your packs are safe, they have been sat under my desk away from the stock, we have sold out of so many packs that I am sure if the girls had known they were there, one or two may have been borrowed!
On Friday I mentioned that I was trying to upload a NEW range of ribbons but the internet was slow. As Mollie would say "I did it!" - this is the first part of our NEW Cotton Ribbon Collection.
We have been asked for cotton ribbons time and time again, this collection of prints are the first to arrive, more plain colours will be with you soon. You can find the prints by clicking HERE. A small collection with 7 different designs printed onto 100% cotton ribbon - we have footprints, sea shells, coffee beans, dots, flowers, diamonds and mini paw prints. Some are printed in brown others in black - quite refreshing.
I must go, my NEW ribbons are calling me......not only the Sweet Treats ribbons but many.......many.......more NEW designs........oooh I love NEW ribbons.
Ribbon Challenge # 20 - FULL
09/01/2011
Sorry our Sweet Treat Ribbon Challenge is FULL.
The Sweet Treat ribbons will go onto our website soon hope you will enjoy all the sweetieness!
Ribbon Challenge # 20
09/01/2011
SORRY THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW FULL.
Do you have a sweet tooth?
Are chocolate, sweets, cupcakes, lollies all your favourite things?
Yes! Then this Ribbon Challenge could be for you.....
Sadly our ribbon delivery did not arrive on Friday, so I have been unable to play, but if you are a sugar girl, liking all things sweet then why not join in with our NEW Ribbon Challenge # 20 - Sweet Treats.
We have 15 bundles of Sweet Treat goodies to give away, so just send me an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com and a bundle of sweetie heaven could be coming your way for free - in return all we ask is for you to send us 2 projects using the ribbons.
Sorry this post is rather later than the norm, Tony took me to lunch and then a lovely drive by the sea, a wonderful day, until we got caught in a traffic jam on the way home through the New Forest!! We queued for miles, it took hours.
Friday FREEBIE-1
07/01/2011
It has been a busy short week, what with the pack sale, Bev's birthday and we had a visit from one of our suppliers yesterday.....we have seen one of the new ranges for Christmas.................ooooh they are wicked!
They have once again expanded the colour range from just Red, Green, Gold and Silver and have added some fun new designs.
I tried to add a new range of ribbons today, but our internet is playing up, must be all this rain! So will try again later. Now onto the Friday Freebie of the New year, as it is the first friday of the New Year it must be voucher Friday.
£20 could be yours just for leaving a comment - we will pick the winner on Monday as always.
Lucy and several others all mentioned a New ribbon Challenge, I have one in mind but waiting for a delivery of ribbons - which is due today. The consigment went through customs yesterday, so fingers crossed if we take delivery today. So get your thinking caps on................
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