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YOU Create - Cake

28/07/2011

Wow would I have liked a wedding cake like this...

...........awesome cake, and guess what - the ribbon is ours.
You can find it here

Thank you Hope for sending us the photo,
we are glad we could help with the ribbon and hope you had a fantastic Wedding Day

Hello wednesday - a dash of red

27/07/2011

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

I tried this technique early in the year with a pair of jeans for Mollie, but it didn't work. But this time.........

Little ribbon loops sewn onto the bottom of a denim skirt. Mollie loved it!

I simplY took a selection of ribbons, cut them into lengths and machined them to the bottom of the skirt. No measuring, no pinning just pure play!!

Mollie has a "thing" about ribbon, I have no idea why - the best is when I catch her twirling it.

The concentration is wicked - all for ribbon.

Magic - pure magic.

Hand delivery

26/07/2011

I had my first hand delivered Challenge parcel for Colour Create.

Janet found us back in the spring. Although we have been in Blandford for nearly 16 years, we keep ourselves to ourselves! A unit on Clump Farm, down Tin Pot Lane, you have no need to pass it, it is not on the way to anywhere. I can not remember how Janet found us, we get a few visitors to the warehouse, but Janet comes bearing gifts.

Look what was in the bag - two beautiful wrapped tubes, (what a clever idea to re-use these delicious snacks) and a wrapped prezzie. I remember Janet telling me there was something for ALL in one of the tubes............... ummmm.

Yummmy that's elevenses sorted - thanks Janet. Janet pops in to see us most weeks, so she must have picked up the vibe that we like our biscuits!! The only problem now is to work out who's turn it is to make the tea...NOT mine!

Next was the yellow prezzie, the brightness of the tissue paper was calling out to be opened........WOW Janet that bag is awesome.

Look at the detail, truly wonderful. Do you give lessons Janet? I can crochet but not like that. The little bag has even got a little popper to stop it from opening.

Did you see the little bracelet that was in with the purse? It uses 2 colours of 3mm satin ribbon and looks to be braided, but I can not seem to work out where the second colour disappears to, unless its braided on top of it. Maybe Janet will leave us a comment explaining it or I will ask next time she visits.

Next was the yellow tub, and more wrapped prezzies fell out. The box looks like one of our button boxes, I think Janet has purchased every single one of our button boxes, she even saw the NEW colours before they were launched!

I do know how to make these flowers, and so do you...........yes you do.......you can find the instructions here. It is just amazing what you can do with ribbon!

Three little treasures - A crochet cupcake, a button ring and a button necklace. I love the cupcake, it is sooooo sweet, sorry I do not seem to have taken a close up photo of it. Janet has been wearing this type of button necklace while visiting us, she tells me they are easy to make!

Once again Janet has used her crocheting skill and worked her magic on these buttons to make this gorgeous necklace. Janet has made me another necklace with instructions that I will share with you at a later date, I need to go off and practice my crocheting a bit first! I can not tell you how to make something, if I have not tried to do it.

Thank you Janet for finding us, thank you for visiting us. Janet has seen all the warehouse improvements over the last few weeks, she has seen us in a total state of disruption, probably felt the vibes of unhappy staff members because I have moved the ribbons AGAIN! It's nice having local customers.

Lush velvet winners

25/07/2011

I know you have all been dying to find out who has won this weeks Friday FREEBIE prize of the NEW Lush Velvet Saddle Stitch.......

................should I keep you in suspense and do a few colour create goodies first..................

...no that would be mean........

As we only had the pleasure of Mollie today, there was none of the normal argy bargy as to who would pick the numbers or even hold the "Bingo" bag!

Mollie was in complete control and picked numbers......................

Number 8 = Corey U
My sister would love these! she would sit there stroking them all day and then make fashion shows with her dolls! thankyou

Number 17 = Laura
Ooh, they do look yummy!

Corey's sister and Laura are two very lucky girls. These NEW Velvet Saddle Stitch Ribblons are totally LUSH and are coming your way - all we need are addresses please to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Mega thanks for everyone taking the time out from your summer hols to leave us a comment. I do know that this time of year it is hard to fit eveything in, your comments are very important to us, so thanks again.

Colour Create - yes I did work Sunday..........but taking photo's is that really work? The office was totally quiet, no phones not even the hummm of computers, unique really!

The first parcel I opened was from Julie.

Julie you must be a true Crafty Ribbons follower - this is just what I need for my NEW desk. As we reorganised our warehouse, we also decided to reorgainse our main work desks, the hub of the warehouse where we pull the orders. This will sit very proudly on my side of the work desk - thank you Julie.

You must have a very steady hand Juile, the way you have stuck the braid on is amazing.

Look, look a matching coaster for ME! I get the feeling you had a Cherry Jam Pot Collection of ribbons.

WOW I really really do need this Julie, It is not that I lose my scissors or even misplace them...............NO they get stolen.or should I say borrowed by other team members!!! No excuse now girls, those scissors are MINE!

I do admire Cross stitchers - such work of art you guys create.

Fantastic Julie, thank you for all you goodies, they will be well used.

Bev's Summer Buckets

25/07/2011

Bev has been thinking of her summer holiday for weeks - relaxing around the pool, playing with Syd and Sam on the beach. So when I found these buckets and spades she snapped them up for her NEW Summer Collection of Bev's Ribbons.

Three colour collections lime, turquoise and shocking there are 20 different ribbons in each collection so 60 different ribbons in total. All the ribbons are 1mtr long and still the amazing price of £5.00 each or........................WANT IT ALL of the 3 colours for £13.00

That's Bev's Summer Bargain for you. As always they are limited so snap them up while you can because I am sure Bev will be thinking of her next colour combo while sitting around the pool!!! You can find Bev's NEW Summer Buckets of ribbons HERE

It was not only Bev that liked my buckets and spades, the little ones have been dying to get their hands on them......................

I photographed the pink bucket first and put it behind me so it would not blow away, I did the same when I finished the Lime one.........but.................... a certain someone had removed the ribbons and was having a good old play!! The weather was not very nice yesterday so we had the beach to our selves!

I wonder why...

Guess what...

24/07/2011

.....I have been doing today?

Friday FREEBIE - 28

22/07/2011

With the amount of emails I received for my ribbons I used for photography the other day, there really could only be one ribbon for todays Friday FREEBIE.

That's right the NEW Velvet Saddle Stitch - it's lush, it's strokeable.....oooh it's so tempting........and we have two WANT IT ALL Collections as prizes.

We have had great feedback for this ribbon and we only launched it on Tuesday! If you missed the posting then you can find all the colours in the range here. For a chance to win then just leave a comment or send me an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com and I will add it for you. I have no idea how our spam filters are feeling this morning, whether they have eaten enough comments this week to fill their tums or not!!

Rather quiet in the office, Bev and the children went on holiday yesterday, the first time Sam has been on a boat - thay have gone to France. Sam was so excited, he thought they had arrived on holiday when they got off the boat, and had no idea they still had a day of driving to go - poor bunny. Syd encountered her first French motorway lay-by toilet....................she was not at all impressed...............there was no toilet - only a hole!!!!

Mollie's Sports Day today, so I am having (yes another one) morning off to go and watch. Have a fantastic weekend.

If you are unable to leave a comment due to our spam filters, 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 Monday.
Please check back to see if you have won, it is up to you to claim your prize - we do not contact you.

Hello wednesday - Raffia

20/07/2011

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

A friend asked me to make a few things for her charity stall - so I made these.

She thought they were great and hoped to raise a pound or two.

I picked up the little frames at the Paris show back in November, but I am sure we must have something over here that is similar. With our NEW Raffia Ribbon (here) I just wound it around the frame and secured with a tight knot. Next I took three lengths of raffia and threaded them under the bundle of raffia on the front of the frames and tied a bow. Making sure the centre of the bow was tight, I then fanned out the raffia to make the bow look bigger.

Being surrounded by so many different beautiful ribbons, it makes a change to work with something different. This raffia ribbon is so soft and is a dream to handle, it is made in Japan so is of very high quality. With the natural wood of the frames, I just thought the raffia was perfect for the job. As I was playing with the raffia my mind slipped into Christmas mode and I started thinking of cinamon sticks wrapped in raffia and little red gingham hearts in the centre of large raffia bows - STOP IT ALI, STOP IT!!

I am taking the morning off - shame the weather is not brill. Have a great day.

Slinky lush velvets...........

19/07/2011

...... these NEW Velvet Saddle Stitch Ribbons are just so lush!!

The velvet is so seductive and flirtatious with the stitching!

10mm single face velvet with a saddle stitch detail on both edges.

I am sorry but you just want to touch them, they feel super soft.

24 awe-inspiring colours with stitching in
red - white - black - orange

You can find them all HERE

Be the first to email me at craftyribbons@gmail.com and you could win all the ribbons I used for photogrphy!
Only 1 set, so be quick!

Sorry these have been won by Claire.

Colour Create first day & wish winner

18/07/2011

I have been doing a bit of a dither over the Colour Create Challenge goodies. It may sound a bit strange but what with the re-organising and the launch of our summer SALE (here) I could not get into the mood of taking photos. I couldn't decide what back drop to use, so I gave up for a few days. Well this afternoon I decided on something simple, a white canvas base scattered with shade cards and a purple back drop. The light was perfect so i started ripping open the parcels, the first item unwarapped was this..........

......it was meant to be! More colour create after the Birthday wish winner.

Sydney had a wonderful birthday and got THREE, yes three birthday cakes. She did share. She had a disco at our local Crazy Monsters - a wonderful adventure playground for children and those adults (me) who dare to twist and turn all the way to the top. Once there you descend on a massive slide. Awesome, but of course I only went up to help Mollie and Sam!! Thank you for all your wonderful birthday wishes, we had great fun reading them to Sydney.

After a bit of crafting, we had been making masks, Sydney picked the lucky winner of her Friday FREEBIE Birthday Ribbon Wish. Remember we could make a ribbon wish come true!

So who is number 22? Whose wish is about to come true...............

Number 22 is Marilyn McLaughlin
Many Happy Returns on your B I G 6TH birthday Sydney....hope your day is filled with all good things!!
As for blowing the candles and making a wish....I would wish for......but -then it wouldn't come true if I say it!!!! Let's just say that I am seeing spots just now(hint hint)

Well Marilyn your wish has just come true - what sort of dots would you like, swiss dots, puff dots, marshmallow dots or even polka dots. You will be seeing dots before your eyes for ever! All you have to do is send me an email with your details to craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will do the rest.

Tony was just reading through my post checking for spellings, when I hear "Ali where is the second Birthday wish winner?" Oh poos, Sydney had only picked one number fom the "Bingo" bag.

So, Tony's magic hands picked....

Number 7 = teresa birchall
OOOhhh i love the jam pot ribbons . Happy 6th birthday sydney . Hope you have a fantastic one.

Cor you were very very lucky this week Teresa, I nearly overlooked your wish - jam pots you say. Please email us with your details to craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will send you some Super yummy jammy ribbons!!

Sorry we could only make two wishes come true, but thank you to everyone that played along. We are also sorry if you experienced problems leaving a comment this week. Our server decided that it wanted a few hours off (thankfully during the night!), we had to reboot it in the morning and everything was fine again. Although I noticed that our facebook likes on our webpage has returned to a big fat ZERO It also seems that the spam filter was also at it meanest and rejecting comments - fooling you into thinking it had accepted it by letting you see it for a while then well.....just......eating it!! We are very sorry if your comment was eaten.

Back to our latest ribbon Challenge # 24 - Colour Create. We had lots of entries to this challenge, I orginally restricted it to 15, but....well...it...sort of went over 20! My desk is piled high with envelopes and boxes, every morning I an convinced I can hear "Open me, Ali open me". Well i opened 2 envelopes today, the first was from Claire.

These colours are drop dead gorgeous Claire, I love them. What a beautiful card, the glitter acetate butterflies are very clever.

What an elegant shoe and just my size, not sure I will wear it today with all this rain!

What perfect detail, and not only on the front....

...the heel has also had some Claire magic.

My next parcel was from Jan, and wow to the change of colour. Each Challenger was sent a Jam Pot Collection of ribbons (here) and a handful of matching buttons from our Button Boxes here. Jan was sent the tawny orange colours, this Jan tells me was WAY OUT of her colour comfort zone. So this turned out to be a HUGE challenge for her. You certainly pulled it off Jan, your two creations are out of this world.

Wicked, super cool Jan and so much detail.....

.....sewn button and the ballerina is just awesome. (If you had your eye on this netting in our Summer Sale, sorry but it is sold out.)

I wish I could create this faded washed out look, think I am too heavy handed! Crazy idea for the hanging loop, and adding those buttons what a clever bit of crafting.