I got told off.......
03/10/2012
..........oh yes I did. I went to Exeter without our NEW Candy Saddle Stitch ribbon. Sorry................
As I explained to the unhappy customer, we have so many ribbons, that it is hard to decide what to take to the shows. But Rachie and I put it right yesterday, we re-jigged the exhibtion stand and now we have ALL the Candy Stitch ribbons in place ready for Ally Pally - The Knitting ans Stitching Show next week. And............................ there will be a new Candy Stitch display on the back wall of the stand, sharing your challenge creations.
Here is another selection of creations from our ribbon Challengers.
I can tell you Laura there was one very chuffed person in the warehouse when I presented this to her. Stunning notebook.
Mobiles are very "on trend" at the moment Laura, and this will look stunning hanging on my exhibtion stand next week.
Sharon I have to hide your cards from Rachie, and this one is stunning. Your stitching is soooooooo neat!
Very ingenious Mel, I love the woven flower grove and as for the saddle stitch flowers - wicked.
I could not believe this was worked in ribbon when i first saw it Andrea - it is a work of art.
My final temptation of the day comes from Sue with her tasty cupcake and woven purse. A brilliant use of ribbons Sue.
Thank you all for your wonderful creations, please accept my apologies for not showing them sooner. I do still have more and plan on sharing them this week, before I work on the Vintage creations!
Have a great day everyone, I have to stock take our swiss dots. Either we have sold an awful lot or we have a dot thief in the warehouse!!
Exeter was a blast!
02/10/2012
Hold your ears eveyone I am about to shout........."THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT CAME TO VISIT US IN EXETER" you made it an amazing show.
Crafty Ribbons had not attended a retail show since March, and we really did not know what to expect in these hard times. On the Wednesday (setup day) we were hearing horror stories of the shows being between 30 to 60% DOWN!!! WOW that would hurt. We got told not to expect a busy time - oh dear all that work and effort from the team they would be devastated.
The doors opened at 9.30am and the customers poured in. We made our first sale at 9.35 and we did not stop!! We sold out of the NEW Vintage Tree Ribbon and the Vintage Little Houses during the first day. We had another supply in the lorry but we were too busy for Tony to leave to go and get it. We have NEVER sold out of a whole peg of ribbon in one day before, let alone two designs.
You LOVED all our ribbons and buttons and for that we truly thank you. By Sunday morning the stand was looking rather ransacked, but by spreading the ribbons around a bit we hope we gave our Sunday customers a good showing. When I caught up with Facebook last night and clicked on a link from Jo and her daughter, both Sunday customers and blog followers, it made my day. Have a read here.
Bev could not bring herself to look at the empty stand yesterday, deciding to attack the pile of internet orders from the weekend first. She is going to have rather a shock this morning. You may even hear her screams!!!
I have been busy sending out all the prizes from our masssive Exclusive ribbon launch today, so fingers crossed they should be with you tomorrow. Mollie and Sam helped me pick the winner of this weeks Friday FREEBIE from last Tuesday!!
The winners are.........
Number 3 = Leslie
Well done everyone! I hope Exeter goes really well Ali - I'm sure the new ribbons will go down a storm. I can't blame medication as an excuse for my forgetfulness, only being a certain age and a busy life but hey!!
Love the new Bev's bag and thanks for the chance to win.
Leslie x
Number 13 = Carole lockhart Stuart
WOW Ali, I was going to order the "jungle Bell Ribbon" and the "Singing Penguin Ribbon", etc etc. today when I just noticed I have won the jingle Bell ones,. brilliant, thank you so much !!!!!!!.
I am working bit by bit on my concertina card/ project and will let you see it when finished. I still have a lot of colouring to do before I start to put it together.
My Vintage package was sent off, I do hope you get it in time. Love, Carole lockhart Stuart. XXX
Congratulations to all the other winners. x
Number 17 = Liz Ford
Have lots of fun with all your fab christmas ribbons, lucky winners. Your bag is great Bev, so a chance to win one is awesome.
Liz x
Number 24 = Sian
Congratulations ladies! These are all such beautiful and unique ribbons
Sounds like the medication you have is pretty potent! I hope that even though it's affecting your memory that it is at least doing it's job for the pain It must be nice to have the medication to blame - I just seem to go through phases or being forgetful with no good reason for it!
Will the lucky girls please email me their address to craftyribbons@gmail.com to claim their prize. Thank you to everyone that left us a comment, we love all your comments.
Have an enjoyable evening, I have a wicker garland, silver bells. red ribbon and our exclusive jingle bells ribbon, laid out on my carpet.........I have an idea!!!!
Ribbon Challenge # 29 - Vintage Christmas
16/09/2012
SORRY THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW FULL
Hello everyone, have you had a great day?
Does anyone fancy joining in with our NEW Ribbon Challenge?
It's NEW Ribbons to play with?
Here is a little sneak peak of our NEW Vinatge Christmas Collection....................
Oooooooh I hope I hear you say!
These are just 3 ribbons and lace from the range.
Well would you like to be in the Challenge? Only 12 places this time.
If you do then, please send me an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com with your name and address.
The first 12 emails I receive will be in the challenge, all we ask in return is for you to send us TWO projects made with our EXCLUSIVE Ribbons
- anything from cards to bags, ATC's to ABC's!
We wish you a Merry.........
14/09/2012
..............Oh dear I think I have lost it!
Must be all the Christmas ribbon, and yes there is another NEW one today - will it be your favourite?
Come on lets all sing together. "We wish you a Merry Christmas" (I told you I had lost it!!)
The little singing penguins are wicked and so much fun.
You can find them all here.
Could you have fun with these penguins?
Leave us a comment and tell us what you would do with this ribbon
We will pick a winner once we have launched ALL the Christmas Ribbons.
So remember leave a comment for a chance to win our Penguins to play with for FREE
We have a prize everyday since Monday, go and leave a comment each day for a chance to win.
Only 2 more days of launching our EXCLUSIVE Christmas ribbons boo hoo!
I know I have not finished sharing all the last challenge goodies, for which I am very sorry (Christmas, and my thumb got in the way, I will finish it next week).
BUT..................
.........BUT, there maybe........you never know...............
watch this space!!!
Have a great weekend all.
twas the night before Christmas,
13/09/2012
when all through the house.........................
....look at all the little houses, already for Christmas, the sky is clear with twinkling stars.
(sorry that was my little speech when I proposed this ribbon at the design meeting, wayback...........oh April/May!!)
What do you think? I love this design and have been itching to play with it............soon I hope.
What will you make with these ribbons?
Leave us a comment and tell us what you would do with this ribbon
We will pick a winner once we have launched ALL the Christmas Ribbons.
So remember leave a comment for a chance to win our Night Before ribbons to play with for FREE
Nearly forgot - you can find these fab ribbons here
Hope you are not getting fed up with all the Christmas ribbon - only a few more days to share!
But if you fancy a change then why not join in with the new challenge over on our challenge blog.
Nothing from me this time, my helping hand Sydney has gone back to school....boo...hooo. But the Design Team
have made the most super creations all around the Vintage theme. Go on over a have a look, you can see them here.
I have a little bunch of black and white animals that need my attention, I may even be back later, have a great day
Friday FREEBIE - Keep Calm Christmas is on it's way
07/09/2012
Hi everyone, the sun is out, the skys are blue the little guys have gone back to school so it must be time to start thinking of CHRISTMAS!
KEEP CALM........KEEP CALM................and just CARRY ON!
As you know we like to be a litle different at Crafty Ribbons and as these ribbons are EXCLUSIVE to us.........they are DIFFERENT!
Would you like some?
Leave us a comment and we will pick a winner on TUESDAY (Mondays have become a bit hectic for us, and it gives you an extra day to leave a comment). There are only two colours santa red or Emerald green. I am feeling on top of the world today so how about FIVE winners this week, but only if you promise to KEEP CALM!
You can find these fab NEW ribbons here
Have a fantastic weekend, you will need lots of energy to keep up with me next week...tee hee.
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.
Surprise for who?
06/09/2012
Friday FREEBIE winner is........................................
Number 23 = Ardilla
Yeah! I love surprises... and I know it would be great! I really love Christmas
Hi Ardilla please can you email me on rachie.craftyribbons@gmail.com with your address. I have a bundle of Christmas ribbons for you! Thanks to everyone that left Bev and I a message this week, great to hear from you all.
Phew what a day.......Ali came back from France bursting with ideas so that I feel I have been chasing my tail all day. Although we are pleased to see her nearly back to her old self. The French picnic lunch they brought us back was wicked, yum, yum, yum!
Rachie x x x
Friday FREEBIE - Christmas surprise
31/08/2012
Do you like surprises?.....................
Do you like Christmas surprises?..................
Leave a comment with us and you will go into our Bingo bag to win.............
.........a SURPRISE bundle of our NEW Christmas ribbons.
Included will be the ribbons Ali has crafted with this week.
Have a great weekend
Rachie, Bev and the 3 little monsters angels!
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 Thursday. Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.
Challenge blog - Sketch
30/08/2012
I really do think a great big chunk of my life has disappeared, it is already time for a new challenge over on our challenge blog. Our fab Dawn has decided it is time for a sketch, why not pop over and see what our fab design team have come up with, you can see them here.
This is how I followed the sketch, not perfect but not bad for a one armed crafter!
ALL made from ribbon I might add. I did my normal trick with the poinsettia...........
.................not bad? You can find the NEW poinsettia ribbon here, the NEW gold swirl ribbon, the Happy Christmas velvet one is here. And for the life of me and I can not remember which gold ribbon I used for the centre, but I am sure you will find a nice one here.
There is a super prize if you enter our challenge this time.....................
...........................nope not telling. You will just have to go and have a look THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET!
Hello wednesday - 3D Snowman
29/08/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
It has been a while since our last hello wednesday. Where has the time gone? I said I was going to give you a little tease while I was away. No I am not posting this from France, I had to fight hard to be able to take my camera bag, so there was no way Tony was going to let me pack my laptop and dongle!!
Yes the Snowman is made from ribbon, I have just decoupaged him to make him 3d. This little guy has two other friends with different scarves, I used the same method as normal to cut him out - details here.
The card is made from nothing BUT ribbon - the red bauble ribbon can be found here, NEW of course! The snowman ribbon is here, the little sentiment ribbon is not on the site, but if you call the girls 01258 455889 I am sure they will be able to help. It will be going on the site on my return.
Have fun
my basket