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4 Days of Christmas

24/10/2012

Only 4 days left, wow I have lots of goodies still to show you all.

Todays unique creation comes from Joan.

I can see this hanging on my Christmas tree, very special Joan.

Joan used the simple Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ribbon here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

Mollie picked the Friday FREEBIE winner for me yesterday, after persuading her that I REALLY needed her help to re-stock our button units - NOT!
She spent so much time playing with the buttons, that it took me twice as long.
The exhbition button units are "OUT OF BOUNDS" to the little ones!

Number 14 = WendY
Laura, what a fantastic card you have made. I'm just off to order some of your Christmas ribbons - but would love to win some more as I've so many projects in mind. Have a lovely weekend. WendY x

Ooooh WendY you have a treat instore, a Bev's Limited edition bag is all yours, just send us an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com to claim your prize with your address please.

You only have 4 days left to get your hands on Bevs Bag!

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

This is such a bargain that it is a Limited Edition and will only be on sale during our 12 Days of Christmas
ends 27th October. You can find Bev's NEW bag here

5 Days to Christmas

23/10/2012

Morning all, hope you are enjoying our early count down to Christmas!

Todays creative ribbon ideas come from Jan, it is a double whammo!

Simple but extremely effective, but do not waste the circle cutout.

Super stamping and use of ribbon Jan.

Jan used the simple Happy Christmas ribbon here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

I have not forgotten the Friday FREEBIE winner, I will be seeing the little ones this evening, we are going to be pumpkin carving!!

6 Days of Christmas

21/10/2012

Start of another week, so it must be time for a new card using our fab Vintage Christmas Ribbon!

Today Creation is from Mel.
(Bev has fallen in love with your card Mel, it might not find it's way to Hobbycrafts!)

Mel your snowman is so adorable, such a happy face and a super top hat!

Mel used the message ribbons from the Vintage Christmas Ribbons, find them here

Still time to enter our Friday FREEBIE, you could win a bumper Bev's bag, just by leaving a comment.

Tony and I are having a day off, he tells me he is taking me to an island for lunch...........oooooh!

8 Days of Christmas

20/10/2012

I did some ribbon embroidery last night! Not sure if I can put this on the blog but I have had a "sod it" week.
Fed up of resting my hand, fed up of the pain, fed up of the meds, fed up of having a head full of ideas.
On Monday I told Tony I was going to have a "sod it" week and do everything I wanted to do,
so I have been ribbon embroidering.

I only wish I could show you last nights design, it is wicked - a type of blackwork but in ribbon.
It is for a new kit, so unless I sell out in Paris it will go on the site later this year.
I must say I have had fun this week............tee hee.......

On to todays Vintage Christmas gift idea from a different Laura than yesterday.

A wicked idea Laura, just perfect for that little gift. The little gingerbread cookie cutter colour is a perfect match to the ribbon.

Laura used the Gingerbread Vintage Christmas ribbon here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

There is a Friday FREEBIE post this week, you could win a bumper Bev's bag, just by leaving a comment.
Read the post below.

Ooooh what idea shall I embroider today?

9 Days of Christmas

19/10/2012

Christmas is definitely coming, our orders are increasing and our little team is starting to feel the strain...........

........BUT we LOVE IT!

How could you not LOVE handling this gorgeous ribbon all day. We had a new team member start about 4 weeks ago and
yesterday she confessed to us, that she felt as if it was not a "proper" job, she loves it too much!!

Today's display of talent with ribbon comes from Laura.
I have never seen anything like this Laura, I am in awe of you.

Fantastic cutting skills Laura.

I believe that Laura has used the Town House, Toy Train and Gingerbread ribbon. The tree and the parcel are both on the Gingerbread ribbon.

All the Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

As it is Friday would anyone like a chance to win one of Bev's super duper NEW Vintage Ribbon Bags?
Leave us a comment and we will pick a winner on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend everyone.

If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters (comment disappears when screen is refreshed), please email it to craftyribbons@gmail.com
and we will add it for you. All the comments go into our "Bingo" bag and we draw a random number(s) on Tuesday.
Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.

10 Days of Christmas

18/10/2012

Please I do not want you to think that I have lost the plot, Friday FREEBIE winner has not been forgotten but I have not seen the little guys this week. AND none of my girls would have their photo taken picking the number.........so unfair! So when Mollie cycled up to see me yesterday I bounced on her with the Bingo Bag!

Number 9 = Dorothy
Great house Sydney ,love the ribbons. Take care ali

Hi Dorothy can you me mail me with your address to confirm your prize please, Keep Calm...the ribbons will be with you soon! Thank you to all that took some time out of their busy day to leave us a comment - we love reading the comments.

Todays Vintage Christmas treat comes from Sharon

Christmas pudding Hearts - how wicked is that?
These went down a storm at Ally Pally Sharon - I should have made kits!
You can not tell from the photo but they hang as a vertical garland, large pud to small pud.

You can find the fab Happy Christmas ribbon in Scarlet with Old Lace writing here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

Thank you to everyone that ordered the NEW Bev's Bag here yesterday
You all noticed a true bargain!!

11 Days of Christmas

17/10/2012

Bev was so inspired when she saw all these super creations we have lined up for our 12 Days of Christmas - all courtesy of our fab Challengers,
that she decided to make a Special Limited Edition Bev's bag............................ooooooooh

It is a mountain of ribbon........have a look.................

This is such a bargain that it is a Limited Edition and will only be on sale during our 12 Days of Christmas
ends 27th October. You can find Bev's NEW bag here

Todays creation was made by Jo.

What little Christmas surprise would fit into this box?

Jo I think there may be a few little boxes being made soon, fab creative idea, thanks

You can find the fab Christmas tree ribbon here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

12 Days of Christmas

16/10/2012

We have had so many fantastic creations sent in from our Vintage Christmas challenges that we have decided to share them in our 12 days of Christmas.

Todays card was made by Andrea, we think it is so unique and original.

Super work Andrea.

You can find the fab Vintage House ribbon here

All the other Vintage Christmas Ribbons are here

Remember to come back for the next 12 days to see some of the best ribbon creations made by our blog followers, customers and friends!

Who is going dotty?

09/10/2012

Syd helped me pick the winner of our White with red dot ribbons as I had helped her with her home work! It has been a while since I last did home work. But as I am on another crafting ban (thumb and hand has flared up again), I thought helping Syd would be fun. She had to make a round house, boy did we make a mess of the bunnies straw!!!

Sydney proudly showing off her crafted round house, she also has the winners number............

Number 24 = Mary
Hello All,

Great new dotty ribbon so would love a chance to win some. It would look lovely on Christmas cards. My vintage ribbon order is already disappearing fast on my growing pile of Christmas cards. I may have to buy some more just to keep to look at!
Mary x

Congratulations Mary, hope you are happy to go dotty! Please send your address details to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone that left us a super comment, much read and loved.

If all goes to plan Tony and I will be leaving for London today. Stand is already just needs loading onto the van. We are off to Ally Pally this week, stand is bursting with stock so we are hoping lots of you will be coming to see us.

I have not pre written any posts so today is also Friday FREEBIE day, I like to confuse.......... Do you want to know what is the most popular ribbon from our Exclusive range this year? So much so that we have already had to make a re-order and re print it...................

keep calm and carry on it's christmas ribbon

We can not believe it, this ribbon was just a throw away idea at the end of one of the design meetings.............we have some red on the exhibition stand for Ally Pally but not a lot. If you would like to secure yourself some of these FAB No.1 ribbons then leave us a comment.

That's me done for today, have a fantastic week, I will be back next Tuesday with the winner of these ribbons.

White with red

05/10/2012

You asked for it, we got it for you!! White grosgrain ribbon printed with red swiss dots. This is not a stock colour from our manufacturer so we had it printed specially for you. It has only gone onto the website this morning, it arrived in mid August and we have already sold 25% of the stock............word got around that Crafty Ribbons had White with Red!!

You can find this charming ribbon here, or you could leave us a comment below for a chance to win a selection of our White with Red dotty ribbon, we have grosgrain, sheer and wire edge ribbons.........ooooh so many dots.

So onto a little bit of inspiration from our Candy Stitch challengers

How clever Alyson to thread the ribbon through the card, very effective.

Perfect for the musical type Alyson.

Ooooh Alyson I think this is a charming card, very elegant.

You do seem to like the soft mellow colours Alyson, the lemon and lime juice works so well on this card.

Sue has teamed up the lime juice ribbon with blue on her card. Ribbon weaving is such a classic Sue, and so delightful. Your backing paper is a super match to the ribbons. I took my ribbon woven heart bag that I made for our DVD to Exeter. First time it has been seen in "real live" caused quite a stir, shame I forgot to take one of the ribbons to make it!!!