When one of our customers emailed today to ask if we'd like to see a photo of a cake she made recently using our jute mesh and 15mm moss green satin ribbon, well, quite frankly we were gobsmacked!! Isn't this just fabulous? A work of art if ever I saw one ..... Samantha Pilling owns the Bite Me Bakery so if you need a really special cake, or just want to admire more of her work please follow this link here
Thank you for getting in touch Samantha - we're always delighted to see what our customers make with their ribbons, lace and embellishments so don't be shy ladies, if your project doesn't fit the current challenge, send us a photo anyway and you might see it featured here on our blog and our facebook page!
Please pop back tomorrow evening for the winner of the Midweek Rustic Giveaway - and don't forget - our December Challenge begins on Sunday 2nd December 9am
Just a reminder that you still have until Saturday to get your entry in for the Ribbon Girl November Colour Challenge Lilac/Lavender/Purple - see here for details - and to say that we will have a special card challenge on Sunday 2nd December with some great prizes ......
and to keep you going until then, we thought we would have a little giveaway of some of the gorgeous rustic goodies from Andreas Rustic Selection
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Bag of ten 13mm rusty jingly bells
1 metre 70mm soft hessian mesh
1 metre of 50mm soft hessian mesh
1 metre of 25mm natural cotton twill tape
1 metre of 10mm red square check rustic ribbon
1 metre of brown tea dyed cotton ribbon
1 ten metre bundle of natural button twine 1 piece of cheesecloth fabric
All you have to do is mention this giveaway on your blog, be a follower if you aren't one already and leave us a comment - the winner will be announced on the evening of Saturday 1st December
when it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas .......
Before we introduce the new challenge we need to announce the winners of the Card Challenge that closed last night, we're sorry if we didn't get around to leaving everyone a comment but we've both been struck down with a horrid cold. Everyone was entered into the prize draw though if your card was eligible.
Ladies please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar on the right, thanks so much to everyone who entered, Mary and Andrea xx
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Welcome to the new Colour Challenge here at the Ribbon Girl blog, the home of the Ribbon Girl Design Team
This month we want to see your fabulous creations using this glorious colour palette
and a £10 voucher from the very generous lovely ladies at Lili of the Valley
Our rules are very simple - create a new project (does not have to be a card, we would love to see all of your lovely handcrafted projects) following the colour theme, blog about it mentioning this challenge then use the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post to link to your project. Please don't back link to old projects. The challenge will close on Saturday December 1st at 9PM (UK time)
Our talented Design Team have created some stunning projects to inspire you and this month we have been joined by a new Design Team Member. Mary and Andrea are thrilled to announce our newest Ribbon Girl - Anne Richardson. Anne has been a customer and friend of The Ribbon Girl for a long time and many of you will have met her at craft shows and at the Lili Of The Valley shop in Leeds as she works at LOTV and is lucky to spend entire days surrounded by their gorgeous stamp designs! We are thrilled that you've joined us Anne :)
We are also welcoming back to the team Nicole, we are so pleased that you've rejoined us Nicole!
(Astrid used: opal bead stem, 32 mm white Floral Edge Cotton Lace, Sky Mauve Lilac Seam Binding, 15 mm Mermaid Pale Lavender, Chrysanth flower, White Pearl Rose Organza, Trellis Rose)
Ladies we're so sorry for the delay in announcing the 2 Guest Designers for December and January - the standard was so high and it was a very difficult decision to make. However, we only had two places available and the two crafters are ......
Congratulations ladies - we look forward to seeing your creations!
We'd also like to remind you that you still have time to join in with our November Card Challenge which is to 'add sparkle' take a look here for more information and we'd like to show you a few more cards from our team to inspire you - all of the products are from
By Lucy
(opal crystal stem, pure silk ribbon, top stitch thread)
(seam binding, fine cluny lace, jingle bells, diamante spacer, pearls)
By Mandy
(10mm vintage style cotton lace, lilac crystals, liking lilac pearls, buttons from a pack of lavender mixture, plum purple Divine bakers twine)
So ladies, we look forward to seeing your projects in our November card challenge - and sometimes it is not possible to leave a comment on every entry, so please forgive us, but rest assured that we do look at every single card and each one that meets the criteria is included in the draw for the prizes.
Before we introduce our new Card Challenge we have some winners to announce:
Our winner from the last Colour Challenge is - Charlotte (please contact us Charlotte to claim your prizes)
Our winner of the New Products voucher giveaway is - Hazel (please contact us Hazel to claim your Ribbon Girl voucher)
We'll be back through the week with the names of our Guest Designers - there were an awful lot of you who wanted to come and play with the Ribbon Girls so we'll need some time to look through all of your blogs again x
Hello, it's time for our latest Ribbon Girl Card Challenge and this month the challenge is to add sparkle!
As usual we have two fabulous prizes of a £10 gift voucher to spend in the Ribbon Girl online store
plus a stamp of the winners choice from the lovely ladies at Lili of the Valley
Our rules for the challenge are really simple - just create a new card following the challenge theme, blog about it mentioning this challenge then add a direct link to your project using the inLinkz button at the bottom of this post. The challenge will close on Saturday 17th November at 9PM (UK time)
Our Design Team have made some fabulous creations to inspire you using products from the Ribbon Girl online store - lots of gorgeous new products added this week!
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