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Friday FREEBIE - 27

15/07/2011

Sydney is 6 today - wow how time flys.

Two birthday ribbon wishes for this weeks Friday FREEBIE prize.

Sorry, but it has to be a ribbon wish, our magic wand does not work on other types of wishes.

So what would your ribbon wish be............

Jam pots.........swiss dots..........stripes...buttons?

Leave a comment and we will try and fullfill your ribbon wish
and pick your number from our "Bingo" bag on Monday.

We are all hard at work in the ribbon warehouse, down Tin Pot Lane - our Summer SALE starts today.............
......but will still have many items to add to the bargains.

Click on the picture to take you through to the Summer SALE

Most items reduced by 50% others by more.

All our star ribbons are now 50p for 3mtrs, Ribbon sentiments were £3.00 now £1.50
We will be adding to the SALE all day, but thought we would tell our followers first so you could keep an eye on the bargains.
The rest of our customers will be told once we have finished adding all the Bargains!!

Remember, when they are gone, they are gone for EVER!

Hello wednesday - Castle flags

13/07/2011

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

As you know I like to come up with different ideas to use ribbon, something to please everyone - this project may not be for you. BUT it really really pleased the person I made them for.............

Tony and I were invited to join Rachie and Mollie on holiday in Looe Cornwall over the weekend. I racked my brain trying to think of a suitable "thank you" pressie - a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates, but nothing was right.

The reason for us joining them was so I could build sandcastles with Mollie.........................that was it..........eureka moment................

........sandcastle flags.

A lolly stick a length of ribbon and a pot of PVA glue and my flags were ready to please.

While the PVA was drying I put some "wind kinks" into the ribbon, so they looked like they were blowing in the wind. During our reorganising of the warehouse I have found lots (and I really mean tons) of ribbons that I had forgotten about. This ribbon for the flag was one of the "not seen for a while" ribbons, you can find it here. It also comes in a peach here and a purple here.

I simply cut a length of ribbon, folded it in half, spread PVA glue all over the inside of one half and slightly beyond. Inserted the lolly stick, folded over the ribbon, matching up the edges. I flatterened the ribbon to ensure that the glue was totally in contact with both sides of the ribbon, and then gently molded the ribbon with my fingers to create the "wind kinks". I then left them to dry over night - simples.

Mollie absolutely loved them, she got really upset when a little boy tried to take one! A simple project that took just minutes to create, made one little girl so happy for hours!!!

Bunch of ribbon flowers to...

11/07/2011

So who wins our Friday FREEBIE bunch of ribbons...........

......there was only one winner this week................

......our very own cheeky monkey wanted to pick from the Bingo bag..

......he picked number.........

number 15 = Rachel

Hi everyone!

Another Friday's here at last - end of the working week,
So what has Ali got for us? let's have a sneaky peak....

A wonderful collection of new ribbons to delight,
To have a chance to win them all a comment we must write.

So to all at Crafty Ribbons, I leave you with this plea....
On Monday from your bingo bag - pick me, pick me, pick me!!! (please)

Good luck everyone!
Big Hugs
Rachel x

I love your ditty Rachel (this is not our Rachael!), and you were pulled from the "Bingo" bag by Sam. All you have to do is send us an email with your address to claim your Flower ribbons to craftyribbons@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone that left such wonderful comments, glad to hear you like the NEW Collection of flowers.

We have had several deliveries in the last week or so, I have spent today re-activating all the out of stock items. Amongst many others they include -

ALL Seam Binding colours are now back in stock - here

ALL Swiss Dot Grosgrains ribbons have been re-stocked - here
I will let you into a little secret - we have had some NEW Colours printed. I hope to get these on the site, later this week.

So if you have been looking for a ribbon recently but could not find it, if you have a look again you may find it is back in stock.

We are still in the midst of re-organising our warehouse, I have set a target to be finished by FRIDAY.

A girl is allowed to dream!!

Friday FREEBIE - 26

08/07/2011

Another week gone

Another Friday FREEBIE is here!

Another NEW Collections of Ribbons for FREE!!

Summer Flowers

A NEW Collection of Flower Ribbons hit our NEW shelves yesterday

What do you think of our Summer Flowers?

You can find them all HERE
25 different flowers on grosgrain and sheer ribbon

Who would like a big bunch of Summer Flowers?

Leave us a comment and you will go into our Monday "Bingo" bag.

Have a flowery 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.

Lin's makes

07/07/2011

As I said last Thursday I love it when I receive emails full of customers, blog followers ribbon and button makes. maybe this could be a regular Thursday posting - Customer Gallery. All I would need are photos sent in by YOU.

Lin had a wedding recently - her daughter Danielle's. And from what I can gather Lin has been busy crafting for weeks, she used our ribbons and buttons on some of her makes.

Lin ordered some personalised ribbon from us to decorate the Bride and Grooms car, sadly her photos did not show the ribbon, so she is going to send me one of the officical photos when they arrive. But Lin did use the same ribbon on this card.

From memory it was a white satin ribbon and we printed in matt silver foil - how special is that.

Lin also made a ring cushion with ribbons from one of Bev's bags. (Change of subject slightly but I noticed Bev is putting together a NEW collection for the summer - my lips are sealed!) The flower ribbon you used Lin was so popular, but it is all gone, boo hoo. I love the way you have embroidered the initials in seed beads, very clever.

O.K. not a whiff of ribbon or buttons here...............but..................look at the work. Hours and hours. Cross stitch always looks so amazing when it is finished. My problem is finishing them!!! Your daughter must have been so pleased with this Lin, I know I would have been.

Not only has Lin had to get ready for a wedding, but she has had a big anniversary of her own. 25 years - congratulations Lin and your husband.

Lin has also had time for more crafting.

It is amazing what a little bit of ribbon or a few buttons can do.

I like Lin - simple and effective.

What a wonderful collection of treasures, thank you for sharing them with us Lin, they really are very special.

If you have photos of goodies that you have made using our ribbons or buttons then please do send them to me at craftyribbons@gmail.com we would love to have a NEW Thursday Post - You Create....or something like that.

Thanks for all your thoughts yesterday on our warehouse antics - it will, it will, it WILL be ALL worth it! I moved the Swiss Dots Stocks onto the new shelves last night, normally all the spare stock is in boxes hidden away. They are now all lined up like soldiers, the colours are amazing - only one tiny weeny little problem. Tony can now see what I have bought!!!! Argh!

Maybe I could still hide a few boxes.......what do you think?

P.S. Don't worry Ali (Sherman) about Tony's motorbike getting oil on the ribbons. Bikey as he is known to all that used to walk round him, is the cleanest motorbike on the planet - Although its 25 years old you could eat your dinner off the engine. Tony uses so much Solvol Autosol to keep Bikey clean, that I suggested we bought shares in the company!

Hello wednesday - Cupcake Swim Bag

06/07/2011

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 made a little bag.

A draw string or should that be a draw ribbon bag!

I made it for Sydney, it has a water proof lining. Sydney started swimming lessons on Tuesdays, she has a wonderful pink swimsuit, with little frills around the legs. Bev tells us she is doing really well.

This little bag is for her wet frilly swimsuit. I hope she likes it.

You may have guessed that the bag is made from a tea towel, I think it was a set of two from Primark. This pink towel was just perfect for the swimming bag I had in mind. Just one embroidered motif so I could use one of our cupcake ribbons to create the ties.

I had a shower curtain that I planned to cut up to make the waterproof lining, I remmber buying it in a SALE for £1, thinking that will come in useful one day!

I did no more than fold the tea towel in half, and cut it into two. I cut two pieces of the shower curtain the same size as the two towel pieces. and simply sewed them all together. I machined around the top edge of the bag to create two "tram lines" for the ribbon to pass through. and that was really that - 15 mins max!!

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Nobody loves me in the warehouse they don't honest. They all wish I would go away to some meeting or an exhibition or something. That's not nice - is it?

What have I done..........nothing................well..................I am only trying to help them..............in the long run.

As you know we (me) are trying to build new shelving and to re-organise our warehouse. We had grown out of the space that we use to store the ribbons, we (me) have been buying so much stock that there was just no room on the exsisting shelves and many ranges are just piled up in boxes - shame.

The new shelves were built on Monday, so we (me) started to plan the ribbon aisles - Christmas in this one, swiss dots there, cupcakes can ALL go there. Nothing wrong with that, is there? It's like working with a blank canvas, every ribbon roll and collection can have a shelf - a home to call it's own.

Well that's what I thought.................until I hear "What have you done with....?" "Wheres the polka dots gone?" "Ali! You have moved the sheers". Ummmm yes, we are re-organising. It appears that I am driving the girls mad, they can not find anything, and pulling the orders is taking them for ever, they said last night it is like playing hide and seek. Just like when you go to Tesco's and they have moved everything - drives you mad looking for the baked beans!

Last night I stayed late, really late to try and get things sorted for them. Still loads to do, but the main working area is now free from clutter, boxes and stock - it should help. I have even taken away Tonys area for his precious motorbike and mountain of bike bits. He has had to take it all home and put it in a garage, much to his disgust as its already full of car bits! So thats one unhappy bunny.

But.............will the girls like it?

Friday FREEBIE - 25

01/07/2011

I say this every month, but gosh another month gone, this is it JULY - where has the time gone?

As it is the first Friday of the month then it must be Voucher Friday.

You could win a £20 voucher just for leaving us a comment. Just think £20 FREE to spend on our website, £20 of goodies from you wish list.

Go on leave us a comment. Never left a comment before, or tried but keep getting blocked by our spam filters? Well why not just email it to me craftyribbons@gmail.com and I will add it for you. simple.

Enjoy your weekend, hope you have fun things planned.

Ribbon makes...

30/06/2011

Do we have spookes in our system or gremlins removing our posts? NO of course not......................we have........................our very own........................Rachie!!

I have been away from the office for most of the week so Rachie very kindly offered to publish my posts for me, she was checking out how it all worked behind the scenes of the blog on Monday evening at home and.....................for some reason.............unknown to us (and her)...................she unpublished my Monday posting - Ready steady go. It just disppeared, some of you got 404 error message, others just got nothing. It wasn't until I opened my inbox yesterday and it was FULL with concerned bloggers that we realised there was a problem. Very sorry for our little "blip" and many thanks for telling us about it, I did wonder why we only had 1 comment on Monday evening!!!!

I just love receiving emails, no not the work ones, but the fun ones with crafty attachments.

Beryl sent me these three cards. I think she has really been having some fun with the pirate ribbons she won. Happy Anniversary to the captain and his Mate - wicked!

A birthday Tilda.

and a spooky birthday. Beryl they are wonderful thank you.

Angela sent me this photo of her wall hanging she made from you guessed it OUR Ribbon and Buttons. Angela missed out on the button challenge, and I think she missed out on the Colour Create one as well - sorry. Thank you for sharing this wall hanging with us, super cool, the dragonflies are wicked.

Hello wednesday - Beach shoes

29/06/2011

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

As you know i do like to wear shoes decorated with ribbon, so when I saw this cheap pair of beach shoes I just thought ooooooooooh!

What a difference a little bit of ribbon and a button can do. The heart ribbon is from our NEW Summer Holiday Collection HERE, and the large heart button was from our Heart, hearts, heart Button Box HERE

I just use a hot glue gun to stick the ribbon in place and i sewed the button on with six strands of embroidery thread. Simples!