Happy anniversary Middle sis
19/06/2014
It is Bev’s wedding anniversary today
Happy Anniversary Bev and Greg – 10 happy years together.
With all our new wedding ribbons, I really did not think I could get away with buying a card!
So I made this…….
…..AND this is the confetti we threw as they came out of the Church.
(yes I am one of those people that collect little trinkets and keep memory boxes,
you never know when you made need something)
I used the white Happy anniversary ribbon from the new wedding owl collection plus
the Swiss dots ribbon.
Bev likes her dots, so I have joined in with our new challenge starting today
on our challenge blog – the theme is Lets go Spotty with ribbon.
I like it when a plan comes together!!
Have a great day.
Hello wednesday–daisy daisy
18/06/2014
Good morning to all my hello wednesday readers.
How are you all this fine morning?
I have been up early, sat in the garden enjoying my latest creation.
Do you want to see it…………..warning no ribbon used!
But I did use our wicked dotty buttons in 3 sizes.
You can find them all here
These are not any ordinary crochet flowers – I set myself a mission…………………
…..….to teach myself to crochet left handed.
I was hoping it would put less strain on my damaged thumb.
According to Tony I sat with my tongue hanging out, deep in concentration.
My first left handed flower – I was super pleased, but sadly did not reduce the stress on my thumb.
So I have hung up my crochet hook for a while 
Wedding Friday FREEBIE
12/06/2014
Morning everyone, oh I do like this weather.
The sun streams into our courtyard in the morning and I just love getting up early and crafting in the garden.
New ribbons always get me inspired and the NEW wedding owls are no exception.
Without you I’m nothing, with you I’m something, together we are EVERYTHING
We have had cake (yes I really did make that just for the owls)
ribbon wands
and yesterday I revamped my Christmas candles, to wedding candles!
How or should that be owl cool are those.
Even better when you upcycle cheese boxes!
What do these ribbons inspire you to make?
Go on tell me – pretty please.
Leave me a comment and we have 2 WANT IT ALL’s – one Bridal White and the other White,
for this weeks Friday FREEBIE.
These could be for one very lucky winner or two lucky winners.
Lets see what the comments say…………..
Mollie got dressed for the occasion yesterday evening – covered in dots
for our Dotty Friday FREEBIE.
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She picked number 8 from the Bingo bag
Number 8 is Gail Lass
I use buttons on my cards and have preferred polka dot patterned ones lately. When I needed a button in a particular color and it didn't have any polka dots on it, I put my own dots on them with my white gel pen. I'd love an assortment of polka dot patterned buttons!! Hugs, Gail
Congratulations Gail – we have a bag of dots waiting for you. Please email bev.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address.
You have until Thursday 19th June to claim your prize.
Thank you to everyone that took time out to leave us a comment, fingers crossed we have lots more to read this week.
Enjoy
Wave your wands……
12/06/2014
Morning girls and boys, isn't it fantastic weather.
Taken the morning off to go and have coffee with the girls.
What a giggle!
We do a lot of giggling at Crafty Ribbons HQ.
Yesterday I had Sydney running around waving my wedding ribbon wands.
She found it so funny that I could not get a picture in focus.
I have seen wedding wands on the internet and they sell for silly prices.
I just adapted mine from the wands I made the children for Halloween.
Full instructions can be found here.
Just changed the ribbon colours!
I used the narrow grosgrain 6mm, 10mm sheer and the NEW Wedding day ribbons.
We have a new challenging starting today and it’s Anything goes with ribbon.
Why not join in here, or have a peek to see what our fab design team came up with.
Have a great day………………
……….ummmm just wondering if there are any new ribbons I could photograph in my garden today.
great idea to get out of the warehouse!
hello wednesday–here comes the bride
11/06/2014
So pleased you could all make it today.
Have you all worked out why you are here?
Percy and Pippa are getting married!
We are so excited.
Pippa chose to get married in Bridal white…..
….but there is also pure white.
We have oodles of ribbon sayings, including the norm like Mr & Mrs, Wedding Day,
Thank You and with love.
But…..
We have some slightly different sayings…….
Without you I am nothing, with you I am something, together we are EVERYTHING,
Mr & Mr and Dreams really do come true.
Check them all out here
Ooooh nearly forgot I have made the Bride and Groom into kits!
We hope you enjoy our wedding celebrations – we have had so much fun putting the collection together.
Enjoy
Save the date
10/06/2014
It is a little short notice - but are you all free tomorrow?
If so, please SAVE THE DATE!
Dotty about our Friday FREEBIES
06/06/2014
A little bit later then normal, but I had some artwork that needed finishing.
I got it done on time and it has been given the “thumbs up”.
Phew!
I have been rather busy this week, and not played with a single ribbon all week,
hopefully that will change this weekend, I plan on a little sewing.
But I have added the 25mm Spotty buttons to the website.
So now we stock 4 different sizes.
What would you make with these spotty buttons?
Leave me a comment and we will put a spotty bag together for this weeks
Thank you to everyone that left wonderful comments for Elsa’s dress last week.
Mollie is still head over heels in love with it.
I looked after Mollie after school yesterday, so we sat down and I read all your comments
out to her.
Mollie would like KarenB’s daughter to have the bling ribbons. According to Mollie she will enjoy playing with them!
Mollie must feel like the most special girl in the world! What an amazing job you did with the dress and such lovely photographs of her wearing it. As for that bling, I think if it made its way to my house it would subsquently make its way into my daughter's sewing projects!! She loves to sew and she's also a bit of a magpie - anything shiny is fair game!
Congratulations KarenB’s daughter we have a bag of Magpie shiny bling ribbon waiting for you.
Please email bev.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address.
You have until Thursday 12th to claim your prize
I am not sure what is going on, but we differently have a buzz in the ribbon warehouse today………………………
……………I am sure I can here bells!
Maybe it is something to do with the ribbon delivery we had this week!
Enjoy
Hello wednesday–Percy Owl
04/06/2014
Hello wednesday ribbon girls and boys.
It’s raining here in Dorset and I am wrapped up again in a big jumper with my gloves on!
Where's the sun gone?
I made a mate for my Pippa door stop.
She is very excited……………
Meet Percy.
They do make a handsome couple, don’t they………….wedding bells maybe?
I am also pleased to say that our Spring Owl ribbon is back in stock. Yeah
and this one……
and believe it or not this one…….
You can all go Owl crazy again!
Have a great day everyone.
We are in the process of updating our website, it is starting to look different.
Elsa’s dress part 4 and Bling Friday
30/05/2014
Morning to all my Friday visitors.
Are you regular readers and followers or Friday FREEBIEers?
or have you come to see Elsa’s finished frozen ribbon dress?
Do I show you the dress or how I made the snowflakes……..?
I am sure you will scroll down to look at the pics first………….
so here goes…………
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Well what do you think?
I wanted to add more silver snowflakes, but Mollie was impatient to wear it for her secret party….
…..which turned out to be a Tea party for me!!!
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The train (cape) was just what Mollie had wanted, I have so many pictures of her looking backwards at it,
that I became concerned she was going to fall over!
I painted the snowflakes on with silver glitter.
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The fabric was thin and see through. I printed a couple of snowflakes and laminated them.
Pinned the fabric to the snowflakes.
Using Mod Podge and a thin paint brush I painted the glue onto the fabric and then covered with glitter.
Once the snowflake was covered I knocked off the excess and hung it up to dry.
Even though I say so myself, they look amazing and really sparkle………………….
…………..so does my courtyard……………my kitchen……………..the warehouse…………
………..basically where ever Mollie travels, she leaves a sparkle behind!!
What would you do with a bag of Bling?
Leave me a sparkling comment and the bling WANT IT ALL could be yours.
this is the ribbon I used for the bodice for Mollies dress.
Mollie came dressed for the occasion this morning……….
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She picked number 26 from the “Bingo” bag.
Number 26 = Sharon P
Hi Ali happy birthday for saturday hope you have a lovely time get what your heart desires. have a wonderful day x
Congratulations Sharon what will you do with 1 kilo of ribbons and buttons?
You have until Thursday 5 June to claim your prize.
Once again thank you all so such super comments, they were much read.
We are in the process of updating our website, it is starting to look different.
Elsa’s dress part 3
29/05/2014
The dress was moving along.
The idea in my head was beginning to come to life.
Read part one here and part two here
It was looking like a dress.
Sewing the bodice to the skirt was easy.
Mollie had her first experience at being “pinned” into a dress,
but she still could not stand still!
The top was a little more tricky, Mollie is so small that I ended up sewing all of it by hand.
She did not want long sleeves as mummy had got her some Elsa gloves.
Phew! I was happy to oblige, short sleeves are much easier to construct.
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As I set the sleeves to the top, I remembered the last time I had worked on sleeves.
It must have been for Rachie’s wedding dress some………years ago!
“Elsa has a split in her dress Ali” we had a little disagreement as to which side,
so we watched the movie together. (Pleased to see I was correct).
“But where is the cape Ali” – it was getting all a little too much for Mollie, she was so excited.
She phoned me last week to ask if her dress would be ready for the weekend.
She had a secret party to go to and wanted to wear it.
What secret party Mollie?
Pop back tomorrow and you will see one very happy little girl.
We have a new challenge starting today
Go on join in this week.
my basket