A Winner and a Giveaway ...

Hello, it's a cold and windy Sunday morning in our part of the world today - a perfect day for staying indoors and crafting I think!  We were 'blown away' (see my clever link there - windy day/blown away :) ) by all the entries to our 'Use Ribbon' challenge, there were so many beautiful entries and we are still getting around to leave comments on them all.  The winner for this challenge chosen randomly is ~

Suzi and this is Suzi's card

Please contact us Suzie so that we can arrange to send out your prize

So, onto this weeks giveaway.  Andrea has been crafting this week and she made a lovely Christmas card using some of our newest felt embellishments

Felt holly leaves embellishment

White cluny lace

Red 15mm gingham

Green polka dot buttons

Red and white bakers twine

Papers and sentiment  from Nitwit Collections

Martha Stewart border punch

Zutter corner rounder

If you would like to get started on a few Christmas cards and would like to win this prize of mixed Christmas embellishments and assorted ribbons then leave us a comment before next Saturday evening (UK time) and mention this giveaway on your blog.

Favourite Friday ...

I thought I would start a new regular blog post on a Friday, pick a colour and share my favourite products from the Ribbon Gil shop in that colour. Today I picked green

Bakers Twine                                     Button Mixture

 Satin ribbon                                     Ruffle edge sheer

 Grosgrain spot                                        Pencil stripe

Cream check                                   plain buttons

 Polka dot buttons                                      crown pins

Gingham Ruffle                                  Green mini kit

Christmas is coming ...

We all know that it is ages until Christmas but for all the crafters who are gearing up to their busiest season then Christmas always comes early and there is a definite sense of the festive season in the Ribbon Girl shop at the moment, check out the Christmas section for more lovely goodies:

Holly Leaves                                       Reindeers

 Candy Canes                                     Gingham

 Check ribbon                           Jingle Bells

New at the Ribbon Girl ...

The postman has been very busy during the last couple of weeks bringing parcel after parcel to the Ribbon Girl, lots of restocks and lovely new products. These are just a few of the new products we've added to the store recently

 New sparkly buttons - larger 18mm and heart shaped

 Silver and gold sparkly glitter mesh

 38mm gold and silver lame

 16mm gold and silver lame

 Gorgeous hotpink/silver glitter organza and new sizes of crown pins

Pretty mulberry flowers and Christmas charms

Of course as well as adding all of these pretty goodies onto the website we've had to play with them too, this card was made by Andrea

Made using lots of the new products and Andrea's new favourite ribbon - hot pink and glitter organza which she says is sparkleriffic!!

A Ribbon Challenge ...

Hello, I'm back with a new challenge today to end the Birthday celebrations for the Ribbon Girl.  The challenge is very simple:

Create a new project that features ribbon

We would love to see all kinds of projects - cards, papercrafts, cakes, crochet, knitting and fabric crafts etc

Use the inlinkz button at the bottom of this post to link us up to your creation and someone will be selected at random to win this gorgeous and very sparkly! prize from the Ribbon Girl

Zva crystal flourish

Rhinestone swirl set

Diamante ribbon slides

3 packets of sparkly buttons

Pearl filigree pins

Silver glitter mesh

Silver flat cord

Please create a new project - no backlinking, mention this challenge in your blog post and of course there is no need to use ribbon from The Ribbon Girl but it would be lovely if you do :)  The challenge will run for 2 weeks and will end on the evening of Saturday 27th August (UK time)

Our fabulous Design Team are having a summer holiday at the moment so for our inspiration I have chosen some of my favourite project from them from over the last year.

Kath

 Jo

Andrea 

 Andrea

Claudia 

 Claudia

 Dawny

 Gail

 Jacqui

 Jane

 Jo

 Kath

 Lucy

 Mandy

 Mary

 Nicole

 Gail

 Tiets

Vicky 

 Andrea

Dawny

Have fun, we're looking forward to seeing what you create

Mary and Andrea xx