Hello wednesday – scissor keepers
29/01/2014

Think you may have guessed that I have been busy designing new kits for our spring round of exhibitions.
Not only have i been working with our delish silk ribbons but I have also used………

……how cool is that.

Do you ever lose your embroidery scissors?
Then these new kits are for you.
Just attach your scissor to our silk ribbon scissor keepers and they will look after them for you!

These charming kits are on the website here……….
…………BUT…….
they are a Limited Edition range and will be taking then to Paris with us on Tuesday.
So if you fancy making a silk ribbons and liberty scissor keeper order them before Tuesday.

Friday FREEBIE - Hand Dyed Silk
24/01/2014
Morning everyone, what a wet day here in Dorset.
We did have some sunshine delivered to our warehouse yesterday.
Hand Dyed Silk Ribbon in 6 yummy colours.
The only way you can get your hands on these ribbons is by entering our.....
Friday FREEBIE.
These ribbons are destined for our exhibition stand and will be going to France in a couple of weeks.
The winner of last weeks Gingham ribbons is.............
Ooooh it is such a shame the children are now at school, I have no one to pick from the Bingo Bag,
so random org picked for me.
Number 52 is Teresa Bishop
Congratulations Teresa, please email Bev bev.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address details.
Big thanks to everyone that joined in.
If you like working with silk read then read on.........
We are holding a
All our Silk Ribbons are reduced by 20%
no codes required, just add them to your basket.
Find all our silk ribbons here
Our stocks were topped up yesterday and Bev has been putting them back on the site this morning.
Offer will end Midnight on Monday.
While looking remember that our Ribbon Pack SALE will end next Friday.
All £1 packs will go back to their normal price of £5
Have a great weekend, don't forget to enter your name to the list below.

Hello wednesday - little sneak peaks
22/01/2014
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
We have a new looking blog............and fingers crossed the comments should be working again.
Maybe you will have to give them a test for me!
We are still working on it.
As you all know I like to tease you every now and again.
Some of my new ribbon embroidery kits using Silk Ribbon
Have a great day
Design Team Call
20/01/2014
Ooooh exciting news.
We are looking for someone or someones to join our fabulous Crafty Ribbons Design team.

We have a Mission........
Enjoy working with ribbon - this is paramount.
Promote Crafty Ribbons - we stock a lot of ribbon BUT our EXCLUSIVE ribbon is what sets us apart from other ribbon companies. So using our EXCLUSIVE ribbon on your creations will give us a greater exposure.
Inspirational with Ribbon - let the ribbon do the talking.
The reason I wanted a Challenge Blog, was to show others what can be created with ribbon. To encourage others to use ribbon on their creations and join in with our challenges.
Must be fun - make the challenges simple and clear.
If you feel you would like to join our team of ribboners then go and enter a ribbon creation here.
Our DT call is open for two weeks.
Go on..............give it a whirl!
Other news...........I was (am) a little trepidatious about using the computers today. Thursday I blew up the website,
Friday I managed to blow up our comment system here on the blog!!
Our IT guys were unable to fix it, so have installed a new system.
It is a little bit different to the other system, sadly we have all lost our gravitars
but you can add your own pics.
You only have to set it up once and is easy to do.
There is still something wrong and Tony and the guys will get it sorted -
it states comments (0) when in fact there are comments.
Harry (our spam filter) is still playing games!!
Friday FREEBIE - Gingham
17/01/2014

Welcome everyone to the start of our Friday FREEBIES -
you gave me all a scare and I thought you no longer wanted our FREEBIES anymore!
The winner of our big bag of assorted buttons is..........................
Marg B
Happy New Year Ali & Co...
I would create a large canvas spelling out the names of my daughter & her hubby & put their wedding anniversary date
underneath as a present to them in August, 4 years after they got married...
or even 2 different canvases of my Grandsons names, Jamie & Ben.
Many thanks for the chance to win xxxx]
Love & {{{{hugs}}}}
Marg B xx ;)
Congratulations Marg B, please email bev.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address and she will be delighted to send you your buttons.
Thank you to everyone that joined in, I gather that some of you are still having problems with Harry our spam filter, eating your comments.
So we are trying the same system as we used for our Christmas Advent event.
Rather then leaving a comment we are asking you to leave your name to the linkz. We would still LOVE you to leave us a happy comment!
Todays Friday FREEBIE is a bundle of these

You can find the 10mm on our website here 21 stunning new colours.
I think we now have the largest selection of Gingham ribbon colours on the web - 36 awesome.
I had a bit of a drama getting them on the website yesterday - I blew the website up!
First the website crashed and then the operating system went offline.
Tony phoned the server company to see if they had an issue - nope everything fine.
He then tried our IT guys, as I heard him on the phone,
I handed him a note.....I have Laryngitis and can only croak you see
"I think it was something I did"
Yep it was me. I had created a loop in the system and the website had run out of memory tying to load.
Thankfully we were only offline for about 30mins but it seemed much longer.
So please enjoy the new Gingham ribbon colours, a lot of blood, sweat and tears (mine) went in getting them to you!!!
I am working on the 5mm and 15mm today
Wish me luck!!
EDITED - ummmmm I did it again. I managed to blow up the comment system on the blog this morning.
The IT guys could not fix it, so have installed a new system.
It is a little different from the last one, but I am sure you will all get used to it.

Hello wednesday - Gingham LOVE
15/01/2014
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Hello ribbon lovers
I am feeling naughty today, a little mischievious!
All because I have been locked in a room for what feels like weeks.
Well not really locked in, but I have had to be very focused......
I have been designing our NEW range of Spring Ribbons.
Ooooooh we are really excited............
..........NO sorry I am not allowed to spill the beans yet.............but I have been with Aliens!
A little bit more of a tease.........here are some of the NEW gingham ribbons.

..................but they are not on the website yet.
The good news I am working on them today and should be on the site soon.
Not many comments to our Friday Button FREEBIE ......
......maybe you do not like our FREEBIES anymore

20% OFF our Basics 2 Go Buttons
10/01/2014
Grab them while you can

20% Discount OFF all the different colours in our Basics 2 Go Button range
Find them all here
Saving will appear as a discount in your basket so no voucher codes required.
What would you create with a FREE big assorted bag of our buttons?
Leave us a comment and you could be our first FREEBIE winner of the 2014.
Have a great weekend

Design Team Rebecca is a winner
10/01/2014
Rebecca, one of our fab Design Team girls has been placed runner up in
Cardmaker of the Year competition in Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine.
And the best bit, two of her creations use both our ribbons and buttons.
Seam binding and DO NOT open until the 25th December ribbon.
Rebecca's paper wreath uses our Basics 2 Go Buttons.
Well done Rebecca what a great start to the New year.
Have a great weekend all.
x
Systems are go
06/01/2014
First day back in the warehouse.
We had a few teething problems this morning.
The power cuts over the Christmas shut down had disabled our internet.
Not a simple matter of clicking the switch back on.
The girls were all standing round with nothing to do..........
without the internet we cannot access our website or print off orders.
So a quick trip home with the order papers to do an emergency print run.
The girls were happy when I returned with an armful of orders.....
...they are working as fast as they can to dispatch them.
Thankfully we are fully back up and running, all systems are go!
Tony x
Happy New year
01/01/2014

We hope you enjoyed 2013 with us in our ribbon world.
We have lots planned for 2014
have fun x