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Friday FREEBIE–a choice of 3

21/02/2014

WOW! what a busy week……

On Monday I was almost 1000km away from home and since arriving back,
I have just launched 3 BRAND spanking New Collections to the website.

Have you seen them appearing in the last two days……………
No – well I will tell you all about them in a moment.

First off the winner of last weeks Friday FREEBIE of the Liberty Kits is…..

……..number 37

Congratulations number 37 - KT Fit Kitty, please email Bev bev@craftyribbons.com with your address details
and she will post you the Liberty Kits.
You have until Thursday 27th Feb to claim your ribbons number 37.

Do you want to see what I have been up to over the last few months…………

This collection was inspired by two of our Design team – Elaine and Cebelica,
both asking for butterflies and something vintage

Add a touch of vintage to your creations with our NEW Vintage Butterflies.

Grosgrain ribbon printed to create a vintage feel, from butterflies to birds, bikes to keys.
In a choice of either Cremé or Latte colours.
For that little extra "je ne sais quoi" add a ribbon message in French or English.
You can find this collection here

We sold out of some of the Liberty scissor Keepers while in France (we thought we would!).
But for once we were prepared and had 3 new colour ways in reserve.

These 3 new colours PLUS (my girls are wonderful) the first collection of 4 are

NOW BACK IN STOCK

and can be found here

and finally I have added this NEW Collection to the website this morning……

a collection for the boys! You can find them here
I can hear you cheering from Dorset.

Both the Vintage Butterflies and the Tractors Digger ribbons were well received in France,
I came very close to running out of a few designs.

Which would be your prize of choice for this weeks Friday FREEBIE…..
1. Vintage Butterflies
2. All 3 new colours of Liberty Scissor Keeper Kits
3. Tractor Digger Collection.

Leave us a comment with your thoughts and add your name to the list for a chance to win.

Have a fab weekend, looks like the sun may come out tomorrow.

Anyone fancy a free ticket to…….

20/02/2014

We have 10 FREE tickets to give away.

Would you like to come and see us at a show?

We will be at the Spring Knitting and Stitching show in March on stand H19
at Olympia London 13th - 16th March

You can find out more about the show here

Two simple steps for a chance of a free ticket.

1. Leave us a comment on this post.

2. Send Tony an email info@craftyribbons.com with your address details.

The first 10 people who complete both these steps first will sent a ticket.

Please only apply for a ticket if you are able to visit the show. These tickets are not for re-sale

Hello wednesday–scarp happy

19/02/2014

say helo to wednesday 405

Hello everyone, I am back!

Ooh it is so good to be home, it has been long time since Tony and I did two exhibitions
back to back in France. Metz is along way from Dorset, right up on the German border.

We arrived back yesterday morning, off loaded the stand and then disappeared for the rest of the day.

I had a scrap request while in Paris.
Florence the girl that helps us, had brought in several photos and wondered if I could do a scrap
page for her. I have made several for her in the past, she tells me she likes my clean”English” style!

Sorry the photo is a bit pants, taken on the floor of the exhibition stand.

Remember I only had ribbons and buttons to play with. Florence had brought in a
couple of sheets of paper, she then scrounged some double sided tape and some glue from
fellow exhibitors.

First to be laid on the paper was the jingle bells ribbon, I thought it went well with the theme
of the photos.

Few more bits of ribbon this time swiss dots.
I added the heart buttons, but would really have liked to have put some white thread
through the holes, but I had none to use.

A few large buttons with 6mm grosgrain threaded through.

Finally a few ribbon loops.

Florence was a very happy bunny when I presented this too her on Sunday morning.

I am off now to have a play with my camera, I have a few new…………….ribbons to share with you.
We sent out the ribbons to our design team girls the day we left for Paris,
they have had two weeks to play and they are desperate to show you what they have made.

Till tomorrow….

………….it really is great to be home

Hello wednesday–roses and iris

12/02/2014

say helo to wednesday 405

Another piece of Silk ribbon embroidery today, it is the pair to the one I showed you
for our first Challenge day of the New Year, last Thursday.

This one is Roses and Iris, I must admit that I have fallen in love again with
ribbon embroidery. Maybe it is something to do with working with silk.

Sorry about the extra watermarks, but they are new kits.
We did extremley well with them last week in Paris and hope the ladies of Metz
will like them tomorrow. If you would like to reserve yourself a pair to embroidery, then please
call Bev 01258 455889 and she will contact me.
I would normally say she would pop them in the post for you…….BUT……..I stole all the stock!

Off to set the stand up, hope it will not take too long, Tony said he would take me to lunch.

Friday FREEBIE–all in Lilac

07/02/2014

How you all doing today?

Tony and I are in Paris and it is freezing, not only that but I have laryngitis again!

My French is very limited and the ladies struggle to understand me anyway………
…….but with a croaky voice, it was somewhat interesting yesterday.

All is going well and I am really pleased to say they LOVE our new ribbons.
Don’t worry we do have loads of stock back at the warehouse, we will not run out.

A super huge thank you to everyone that joined in with our Friday FREEBIE last week.
The bag of assorted animal buttons is going to ……………..

(sorry unable to use random org this week, internet connection limited, so I asked Tony to think of a number)

Tony said number 51
51 is……….Angela Styles

Congratulations Angela, please email Bev bev@craftyribbons.com with your address details
and she will post you lots and lots of animals!.
You have until Thursday 13th Feb to claim your ribbons Angela.

I have been think what this weeks Friday FREEBIE could be,

how about these,

Basics 2 Go Buttons - Lilac

and some matching lilac ribbons.
Just add your name to the linky thing below.

Well must go, Tony is telling me it is time to start croaking at the customers.

Have a great weekend, if I get a chance I will take some show piccys for you.

First Challenge of the year

06/02/2014

First ribbon Challenge of the year starts today....yeah!

We thought we would give the blog a little make over.........

....nothing major.

But now you can see all our talented design team. It is great to put faces to names and creations.
You can see the team in the left had side bar.....that's me at the top!

All the team have joined in with todays Challenge, so it will be a long post, but bursting with Inspirational ideas for using ribbon. The Challenge blog is here

As you know I have been playing around with silk ribbon of late.......

I found this fabric in France at Christmas and I just HAD to have it!

All embroidered with silk ribbon

Enjoy today.

Hello wednesday - alien are here

05/02/2014

Do you remember a while back I told you I had been working with aliens?

Well.......they have landed. To be honest they arrived by DHL!

Not just Aliens but look at that cute message ribbon.
"Love you to the moon and back"

How cool is that?
This ribbons are NOT on the website and will not be going on for a couple of weeks.
Tony and I left on Tuesday night for two weeks away in France.
A loving romantic trip you are thinking............
.....NOPE!
We are the L'Aiguille en Fete show for a week and then we move on to Metz for another show.
We have lots of new ribbons, but for the moment you can only get them by coming to see us in France.

If that is to far to travel, then why not give Bev a call 01258 455889 and I am sure she will let you have some aliens.

Wish us luck with the shows.

Take care all.

I forgot these.....

03/02/2014

Silly me, I forgot to show you these buttons on Friday.

Basics 2 Go Buttons - Lilac

A gorgeous lilac mix. You can find them here.

We are all in a little bit of a flap.
We have a delivery of brand spanking new ribbons due any moment.
Oooh I would love to tell you what they are, maybe a little sneak peak later in the week.
Tee Hee.

All very exciting.......

Ali x

Friday FREEBIE – Animal Buttons

31/01/2014

What do you think of our NEW animals?
We think they are fab, Mollie has already taken one of each to school,
for her class.

They come in three different colour combos.

Pastel

Bright's

Natural

Find these charming buttons here

Well it is the end of another week, so it must be……..

Thank you to everyone that joined in last week, it is great to see so many entries.
The winner of last weeks Hand Dyed Silk ribbons is……..

Number 45 = Olga Wesley

Congratulations Olga, please email Bev bev@craftyribbons.com with your address
details and she will post you these wonderful ribbons.
You have until Thursday 6th Feb to claim your ribbons Olga.

Have you guessed what today’s Friday FREEBIE prize is?

Yes - a selection of our new Animal buttons

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Last day of our Ribbon Pack SALE . All £1 packs will go back to their normal price of £5.

Are you seeing the New look blog?

30/01/2014

Afternoon everyone.
We have several concerned followers contacting us to say there is something wrong with our blog,
it looks “odd”.

We updated the software last week and gave it a new fresh look.
It should look like this……

If your screen looks different to this, then here are a couple of things you can do.

1. try refreshing the screen by pressing the circle arrow

If that does not work then you will have to clear your browsing history, so that your browser will pick up the new blog details.
We believe that only Internet Explorer Browsers are not showing the new blog correctly.

In Internet explorer you will use the little cog at the top right hand corner of the screen

Press the cog and a drop down box will appear.
Second up from the bottom of the list is Internet options.
Press Internet options and this box will appear.