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Day 5 - Ribbon Advent

05/12/2012

Morning everyone - have you got snow?

Nothing here in sleepy Dorset.

Todays Crafty Ribbon Advent Idea comes from Maja.

Ooooh I may have to borrow this idea myself Maja, what a great idea.
Almost everyone uses these note-it stickers.

Why not pop over to our Inspiration Blog to catch up with the other fab ideas and while there,
add your name to todays list for a wicked chance of winning a $5 voucher for.....

Sassy Cheryl's Digi's

....now that would be cool.

Just click here to enter our Ribbon Inspiration!

Day 4 - Ribbon Advent

04/12/2012

Those that know me may have guessed I am short of a little ribbon mojo at the moment, nothing that a holiday would not put right.
Hint, hint Tony!!

So todays advent inspiration comes from Sydney my 7 year old niece.

It had to be something simple and quick to do as she wanted to make about 30!

Small red cards, some of our Happy Family Christmas ribbons (although she told me she had two cats and no dog!)
and a stapler.

I cut the ribbon to lengths and she folded and stuck the family ribbon down and attached the
"Happy Christmas with love x" with the aid of the stapler.
Simple, job done in under 30minutes.
You can find the ribbon here.

Today prize has been kindly given to us by The Cutting Cafe

3 Fab digi sets could be yours just for visiting the Inspiration blog here and adding your name to the list.

Have a great day, I am off to Bath to see a man who can fix thumbs!!!!
I wish.............

Day 3 - Ribbon Advent

03/12/2012

Whoooo today is cyber Monday - will you be doing your internet shopping today?

You will not find one of these for sale anywhere on the internet....

.......a super simple creation by Gina.

I think this is a fab idea and perfect for those little extra prezzies.
You can see loads of buttons here.
The ribbon Gina used is part of our Vintage Christmas Collection here

Our design team have come up with other fab creations for todays ribbon inspiration
check them out on the Inspiration Blog here

While you are taking a peak at the inspiration why not enter in for todays prize from.......

Opened by Elaine Hughes in 2009, Quixotic Paperie is an online store specialising in products for rubber stamping and papercrafting.
Elaine has selected many of her favourite products along with rubber stamp brands from around the world to
bring you some of the best stash available!

Enjoy cyber Monday, it was our busiest day last year..........
..................fingers crossed we have a MEGA Ribbon Day!!

Christmas Ribbon Advent starts today!

01/12/2012

Our design team have been busy bees or should that be busy crafty elfs!
They have been designing Christmas goodies for weeks using our fab Christmas ribbons!! And we start sharing them today with you all.
Not only do we have some fantastic and magic ribbon ideas there are prizes to be won too.

We are kicking off the Christmas Ribbon Advent with a whopping £24 voucher to spend on our site

For a chance to win this voucher and the other 23 prizes we have lined up, you have to visit our Inspiration Blog here.

With 24 days to go to Christmas you still have plenty of time to embroider some NEW Christmas decs

Just a few simple ribbon stitches and you have this unique decoration, why not embroider 2012 to make it extra special.

This heart is one of our NEW ribbon kits and you can find them here.

Have a great day and do not forget to put your name down on the inspiration Blog for a chance to win the £24 voucher.

Little news

28/11/2012

Well what a busy few weeks, with Hobbycrafts at the NEC and then the Paris show last week, it has been non stop.

We just did not have any time to update the blog, but we have been working behind the scenes..............

Lots of fun and prizes to be won starting on Saturday, please come along and join us everyday for that little bit of ribbon magic!!

Find our more on our Inspiration blog here

Flying visit

06/11/2012

Just popping in for a flying visit to announce the winner of our Friday FREEBIE.

Number 14 = Tracey and Paul

oooh would love to win I'm soooo excited about Christmas x looking forward to seeing you next week x

Sounds like we will be seeing you this weekend Tracey, I have popped a Bev's bag on the exhibition stand for you, so no need to email us.
Big hugs to everyone that left us a super comment.

Things are rather hectic here we are just trying to squeeze the last few bits onto the exhibition stand for Hobbies.
It would not surprise me that when we unload at the NEC tomorrow Rachie had packed the kitchen sink!!!!
She is adament that we are NOT going to run out of anything this time.

Have a fantastic week, hope to see some of you at Hobbies.
Please say "hi" or wave on your way past our stand.
You can not miss us, our stand is right up at the front of the hall by the entrance.

Lace for number 12

30/10/2012

WHAT! NO little ones in the office..............and it is half term!!

Our Friday FREEBIE winner was picked by me, BUT as I am unable to take a photo of me while holding the "Bingo" bag....

.....it is only the "Bingo" bag today!

Number 12 = Karen Jones
This lace was a treat to work with, So,So pretty and now 30 colours! you bet I have MY fingers crossed!!
Lovely ideas above of how to use it too.xx

Ooooh you have all the lace waiting for you Karen, all we need is an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Thank you to everyone that took a moment of their time to leave us a comment,
we do love your comments.

Have a good evening everyone.

Last Day of Christmas

27/10/2012

How can the last 12 days have flown by so quickly.

We started the 12 Days of Christmas with the stunning and unique card from Andrea, from our house to yours.
So I thought I would end the event with another of Andreas creations.

WOW!

Amazing crafting Andrea.
Has anyone worked out the cross stitch tags?
Mollie, Sam and Sydney!

The milk boxes are filled with "things" but we have not opened them yet. although Janet spied them on
her recent visit to the warehouse, and was curiously turning them over, to see
if she could get a hint of how they were made.
Crafters what are they like!!!

Andrea used lots of the Vintage Christmas Ribbons, find them all here

Please do join us again next week, we have ooddles of creations still to share from this Challenge.

Hope it is not too cold where you are, enjoy the weekend.
Happy crafting with ribbon.

2 Days of Christmas

26/10/2012

As we wanted to add that little extra Vintage feel to this collection of ribbons we included some lace...........well.........
...it has been so popular that we have added a further 30 colours.....yeah!!

You can find all the lace colours here
Fingers crossed you like them!

As a treat for our Friday FREEBIE we have a collection of ALL this lace,
what would you do with it?
Leave us a comment and we will pick a winner on Tuesday.

Here is a wonderful selection of Challenge goodies all using our lace.
Hope they give you a little inspiration.

Angela has added it to her Christmas To Do book.

Carol with her twin lace lines.

Karen trimmed her stepper card.

Carol has made a rosette of lace to decorate her box.

Laura made frilly circles for her decs.

Another tag from Laura, I think she really likes our lace!

Andrea has combined cross stitch and lace, very vintage style.

Mel has used the lace to decorate her tree card.

Jo has added it to enhance the message ribbon

Another card from Jo this time she has edged the house ribbon.
(I had to remove this card from the exhibiton stand in Exeter, everyone wanted to copy the design,
and we had run out of the house ribbon on the stand!!!!)

Phew that was a lot of inspiration, hope it got your minds a ticking over!!

Don't forget that you only have today and tomorrow to order Bev's Vintage Bag of ribbons

Bev has included -
1 mtr of ALL the wide Vintage ribbons - trees, parcels, gingerbread, town houses, toy train and winter woolies.
1mtr of ALL the message ribbons in ALL the colours.
PLUS 1mtr of 10 different complimentary ribbons in sheer, grosgrain, satin and wire edge.
Total 25mtrs of scrummy Vintage Christmas ribbons for £10.
You can find Bev's NEW bag here

Have a fabby weekend

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