Crafting for Gold
20/07/2012
Hello Everyone,
Time to share some news with you all here at Crafty Ribbons we are having another of our fabulous events this time we are........
You can find out more on our Inspiration blog
NEE NAA - BROOM for who?
16/07/2012
Number 18 = Mary
Hello All,
What great ribbons for 'the boys'. Would love to win them.
Have a relaxing weekend. Glad you enjoyed the visit of the Olympic torch.
Mary x
Congratulations Mary you have some awesome ribbon coming your way. Please can you email us your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com - we need to know where to send the NEE NAA's!!!
Thank you to everyone that took time to leave us a comment, I read them while in bed! I caught a gruesome Summer cold and it has made me feel rotten. I am not normally one for staying at home and going to bed, but I just could not do anything else. Back to work today, (since last Monday) still with a cough but feeling much better. Apologies for those of you that have sent in challenge parcels, they were on my to do list last week. I have a big pile of envelopes and boxes but as normal have not opened them until the camera is all ready. Thank you to everyone.
That's me for today, Happy Monday.
Beach huts or candy winner
09/07/2012
Number 21 = Sue
Hi Tony
Great news about Ali's hand you must both be so relieved
Think I would go for the candy saddle stitch its gorgeous although the beach hut ribbon would look nice on the Ark I am planning to build lol
Hope no one is badly affected by any floods
Sue xxx
Congratulations Sue you are our Friday FREEBIE winner. Please can you send your details to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Sue I must ask - is there any spare room on your Ark!! It was Dorset's turn to have the bad weather over the weekend. It was bad, I just could not believe there could be so much rain. The river Stour has burst it's banks and several roads are flooded, but we are ok. Weymouth has had a really bad time, many of the car parks planned for the Olympic parking are flooded - a bit of a headache for someone!
Thank you to everyone that left us a super comment, I didn't get around to putting the beach huts on the website on Friday. It will be a job for this week.
Take care all.
Friday FREEBIE - beach huts or candy?
06/07/2012
It seems to have become a regular feature me writing the Friday FREEBIE post. I hear on the news this morning there are over 70 flood warnings out around the country, it is pleasantly dry here in Dorset (at the moment) but we hope all our readers will be safe today.
Ali has so many NEW ribbons coming into the warehouse at the moment I just can not keep up. She was messing about with some wheels yesterday!!!! No idea, but she seemed rather pleased with herself.
I am going to make you pick your Friday FREEBIE prize for today, you can either have the new beach hut ribbons - they arrived in the warehouse yesterday so no doubt Ali will be putting them on the site today OR you can select the NEW Candy Saddle Stitch ribbons.....................
............ which ones will you pick - beach huts or candy? Leave us a comment and we will pick a winner from our "Bingo" Bag on Monday.
On a little encouraging note, we had a very good meeting with the hand specislist yesterday. Ali has damaged herself, but the consultant has reassured her it can be fixed and she will be able to embroider again. Thank you for your wonderful emails and comments, they did give her a boost.
Stay safe and enjoy your weekend.
Tony (not so worried today)
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number 13 is lucky
02/07/2012
Number 13 =Carol
Luckily we seem to have missed the worst of the weather so far thanks goodness. These ribbons are perfect for the British summer though. Carol x
Carol being number 13 this week has been lucky for you! You have won our Friday FREEBIE prize of the umbrella ribbons - all we need is your address please to craftyribbons@gmail.com.
We were very touched by how many of you offered to send Marjorie your prize if you had won these ribbons - crafters are kind. Marjorie we do hope that things have improved for you over the weekend, although the weather has still been awful.
Marjorie was one of our first followers to leave a comment on the blog, 30 November 2008, the day I announced that Mollie had arrived! Yes, Mollie has grown and is very special to us and so are you Marjorie.
We have put together a collection of ribbons to send to Marjorie from Crafty Ribbons and all our fab kind blog followers - we hope you like them Marjorie, they have been sent with tons of love.
Take care everyone
Hello wednesday - French roses
27/06/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Hi everyone, we had a ribbon delivery this morning and I just had to dive in!! Only a small box but the contents were divine.
Beryl one of our blog readers first brought this type of ribbon/trim to my attention and I have been searching for it ever since.
The roses are made from a narrow strip of chiffon and sewn to a net backing. This ribbon is very scrummy, there are only 4 colours to the range. I photographed them this morning..............but to be honest I am not sure i can bear to part with them. Maybe after a few more squishes and strokes i will put them on the site.
The colours team up perfectly with our French saddle stitch Joyeux Anniversaire ribbon here.
I have now added this scrummy ribbon to the website, you can find it here. But sadly it is not cheap, but then it is French!
Loopy loo winners are......
25/06/2012
Number 9 = Sue
Morning from a place the sun forgot!!!!
I just love these ribbons and I NEED it its beautiful
Sue xxx
Number 34 = Monica
Just find this wonderful website- placed my first order. Pleased with the service. Thanks
Well done Sue and Monica, we hope you do not go too loopy with this new ribbon!! Please email us your details to craftyribbons@gmail.com
Thanks to everyone that left fab comments, please do not feel too sorry for Tony (Mr Lonely)! I had come up with this fab idea and I just had to finish it and that meant working through the night, so yes I had been stolen by Mr Snowman and Mr Christmas.
Think it was well worth all the extra time I spent on the Christmas ribbons. We had our final Christmas selection meeting this morning and all the designs have gone through to the next stage with the factory. So none of my toys were thrown on the floor this morning. It was a very good meeting, I wish I could share the new designs with you but............."TOP SECRET" as you know!!!
We have a wonderful balmy evening, I am off to bake a cake. A promise I made to Tony for making him feel lonely.
Friday FREEBIE - Loopy loo
22/06/2012
Good morning to you all. Apologies for the delay in posting this weeks friday freebie. We have had so much rain here that I think it has got into our internet connection, sometimes it works sometimes not.
Plus it is down to me to write and post it. Ali spent all night thinking of men. But not me unfortunately. Mr Snowman and Mr Christmas kept her up last night, so much so that she had to get up and continue with her designs. She is still at it. As it is top secret all I can tell you is that you are in for a real treat. She has really excelled herself - as usual I might add.
A loopy prize for todays friday freebie. Two sets of 'want it all' If you can leave a comment then please do and we will pick the two lucky winners on monday from our Bingo Bag.
Hopefully the weather will get better this weekend - we can but dream. I will be trying to prize Ali away from her new men and plan to take her out and spoil her.
Have a fantastic weekend all.
Kind Regards
Mr Lonely (Tony)
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Challenge blog - Clean and simple
21/06/2012
Time for a new challenge over on our Challenge blog. Carol is hosting the new challenge and she has picked the theme
CLEAN AND SIMPLE CARDS
Now this is my thing Carol, I can do this!!! But before I show you my creation I would like to thank everyone that joins in with our Challenges. How everyone makes so many different cards and creations from the same theme is just overwhelming. So a HUGE THANK YOU from Crafty Ribbons and the Design team Girls.
You can not get much more clean and simple then this! I used our Happy Birthday saddle stitch ribbon here to make a banner style message. I wrapped the red grosgrain ribbon here around the cream card sleeve and tied a bow. I cut the ribbon tails with a very sharp pair of scissors to create a clean cut.
We would love you to join in with our NEW Challenge, just follow the instructions on our Challenge blog here and you could win a prize! A Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag - Teddy Bear Picnic.
The design girls have come up with some super inspiration for you, so check out all their ideas.
Off to upload the loop cord I promised yesterday - the Christmas meeting went on much longer then we had planned yesterday. Ummmm............ yes a few toys were thrown on the floor, but the Christmas Collection is coming together. ALL constructive comments have been taken on board - so much so I had trouble sleeping last night. I had snowmen, stars and ribbons disturbing me most of the night so I got up!!!
Have fun everyone, think of me struggling with my naughty snowmen!!
Hello wednesday - loopy cord
20/06/2012
Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!
Hello everyone, I got a bit side tracked this morning. I started writing this post then I got an idea for a NEW Christmas design.....................well I got somewhat side tracked!! I am a little late designing our Christmas ribbons this year, we had the Best of British event which took up a lot of time and then..........the weather was horrid, lost my mojo.............need I say more.
We have a super guest designer for todays hello wednesday idea. Laura came to visit us a couple of weeks back (on a really horrid rainy day). She and her parents were holidaying in the area and could not resist the chance to come and say hi. Laura has joined in with many of our ribbon challenges and has been an avid blog follower.
I have a huge selection of ribbons that I have just not found the time to put onto our website, during our recent re-organising we removed these ribbons to one area of the warehouse (OMG I must do something about this!) The ribbons Laura used on todays project came from this "unloved" pile of ribbons.
Laura has turned our loopy cord into this stunning necklace. The seed bead loops and drop crystals make this an enchanting piece of jewellery. A super imaginative creation Laura, and you have spurred me on to photograph these little loopy cords.
All the colours will be going on the site today - when they are on you will find them here.
Laura brought me a prezzie when she came to the warehouse, I like prezzies and this was soooooo sweet..............
.............the picture makes it look huge, but it is tiny. I just wanted you to see all the detail. Laura you are one very talented designer and thank you for allowing me to use your creations today.
Now wish me luck in the meeting, I ask ALL the team to be truthful with my ideas, if they feel they can be changed, altered or if they need redesigning in any way I want them to say so. We need to know that they are perfect BEFORE going to print. Only one little problem with this................I hate having my designs pulled apart, I get into a right stomp, throw all my toys out of the pram and normally sulk all afternoon!!!!!
I do take on board everyones comments............and end up designing better ribbbons........................but!
my basket