The Ribbon Girl Blog

Don't miss this beautiful birthday giveaway ....

2012-03-15T06:00:00.010Z

Mary is celebrating her birthday with a beautiful giveaway - you could win this fun, felt, flower-festooned bag full of cotton, guipure and vintage style fine cluny lace in white, cream and black - a mega sixteen metres !! just think how many cards you could decorate!

All of the lace in The Ribbon Girl online store is of the very best quality and looks beautiful whether used on wedding invitations and stationery, cards, scrapbook pages, dolls clothes, lingerie, bed linen, baby clothes, accessories for the home, ornaments and all types of craft and sewing projects

Just leave her a comment (on Mary's blog and not on this blog!!) and tell her how you would use the lace - the give away will close in 7 days time on Thursday 22nd March and one winner will be picked at random - good luck!

Visit Mary's blog to enter the challenge!

Good luck everyone!

Colour Challenge No 16 winner is ...................

2012-03-05T19:15:00.000Z

The winner of the Ribbon Girl Pink and Brown Colour Challenge as chosen by random.org is

Number 71 - that's you Teresa

please contact us with your details so we can mail your prize and arrange for your £10 gift voucher to be sent from the very generous girls over at Lili of the Valley!! (just in time - they've just got more stock of their new release stamps)

The top three in no particular order are

Tamara M

Liz

Sue W

Please take your 'I Was Top 3 at the Ribbon Girl' badge from the side panel

and last, but not least we're pleased to announce that the last remaining mouse has been won by

number 37

Lou Mac!!

Please email us with your details and we'll post off the little mouse as soon as possible!

and to finish, here are some lovely cards which we weren't able to include in the colour challenge DT projects:

Jo cream cluny lace and pink flowers - what a pretty combination!

pretty grosgrain and mulberry roses

gorguss seam binding!

and from Claudia - the beige pencil stripe ribbon is so pretty

and from Vicky - gorgeous felt flower!

We'll be back soon with a little give away which will include some of the new striped buttons and some gorgeous vintage style lace!

See you soon Mary and Andrea x

Colour Challenge No 16 pink, brown and cream .......

2012-02-19T09:00:00.058Z

Welcome to the 16th colour challenge which is pink, cream and brown - we have a lovely prize of ribbons, lace and flowers from The Ribbon Girl

and a £10 gift voucher from the very generous ladies over at Lili of the Valley (who incidentally will be launching their new range of stamps on 20th February - so don't miss it)

We are delighted to welcome back Jane as our guest designer for February - Jane is on loads of design teams and is always busy so we're extra pleased she could join us this month - here is her card

Feast your eyes on this cake confection from Kath

A gorgeous heart from Mandy

A vintage card from Claudia

A fab picture hook from Gail

A budding chef on a card from Nicole

Fifi goes shopping by Tiets (who is currently suffering tremendous back pain - get well soon Tiets)

A beautiful bunny by Tab - isn't it lovely?

A 'miss you' post card from Lucy

A birthday easel card with a drawer from Mary

A lovely card from Jane

A card from Andrea

Have fun and please, no back linking, new projects only - and it doesn't have to be a card either - we love to see all kinds of projects, crochet, knitted, sewing - especially if you can use a ribbon or a button or a piece of lace on it - mention Ribbon Girl on your blog and link your card using the InLinkz button below - the winner and top three will be announced after this challenge closes on Saturday 3rd March, 9PM UK time

ps one of the little mice who were looking for a home has still not been claimed so we will send it to one of the entrants to the colour challenge, chosen at random.

Are You A Winner??

2012-02-07T08:16:00.000Z

The winner of the fabulous Ribbon Girl ribbon giveaway and $20 giftcard to Jacque Larsen's Paper Pieces store is .........................................

Sara

Sara please contact us to claim your prize!

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway, keep checking back as we might have another giveaway next week!

The mice have found new homes .........

2012-02-01T07:45:00.001Z

(Please scroll down for our current give away)

Andrea and I had such fun reading the comments left by everyone - these sweet little mice are certainly going to have fun and be so well looked after - the winners have been chosen at random and here are the four lucky winners of a gorgeous mouse pin cushion made by Gail together with a small selection of decorative pins from Ribbon Girl:

Joanne Flannery New Zealand

CraftyLoops Northern Ireland

Mau Redcar on Sea

Esther Netherlands

please contact us with your details so we can mail your mouse!

Mary and Andrea xx

Fabulous Giveaway ...

2012-01-29T12:30:00.001Z

Today we have a special guest sponsor on the Ribbon Girl blog, my lovely friend Jacque Larsen. Jacque is a very talented digital designer who creates fabulous paper pieces for digital and hybrid craft projects.

"My name is Jacque Larsen, I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have 4 beautiful kiddos ranging in ages from 7-16. I have been a digital designer for 4 years now. All of my 'paper pieces' are really JUST THAT! PAPER! Each product is hand painted, hand cut then pieced to create adorable digital products! My designs are ideal for scrapbooking, card making, home schooling and other fun hybrid projects! My style is very different from what you tend to see around the digital community. The detail and textures of each paper pieces make your pages and projects come to life! I am currently looking for card and craft makers to join my Creative Team! If you are interested in applying contact me at jacque@larsenfamily.com Thanks to Andrea and 'The Ribbon Girl' for having me and giving me a moment to shine. Isn't the online community amazing! I love having friends who support me and share their craftiness with me, yet live on the other side of the world! Technology is so fun! -J"

Jacque and the Ribbon Girl are having a joint giveaway this week. All you have to do is leave us a comment on the blog and you might be able to win a $20 dollar giftcard to Jacque's store as well as a ribbon and embellishment bundle from the Ribbon Girl

I can tell you from personal experience that Jacque is one of the nicest, friendliest and most supportive designers I've known and I spent a happy couple of years on her Creative Team playing with her paper pieces so if you fancy having a go I would definitley recomend getting in touch with Jacque

I have been playing with Jacque's paper pieces for many years and she kindly let me loose in her store again where I picked up a few new goodies

10 Things number doodles by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Copics, sentiment stamp and kraft cardstock

Sunday Morning element pack by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Saddlestitch ribbon, charms and pins from Ribbon Girl

My Stick Family doodle pack by Jacque

Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque

Ribbon, twine and star charm from Ribbon Girl

My Stick Family doodle pack by Jacque
Sunday Morning paper pack by Jacque
Ribbon and charm from Ribbon Girl

If you would like to keep uptodate on what Jacque is doing and find out when she releases new paper pieced goodies then you can sign up to her newsletter here, read her blog here and follow her on Facebook here.

Jacque has also given all of our blog readers a discount code to recieve 40% of an order in her store, just add TRG_40 to the discount box when you check out (code expires 2/29/12)

That's all for now, remember you just need to leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning both prizes and the giveaway will close next Sunday February 5th (9PM UK time)

Love Andrea x

Colour Challenge Winner and Top 3 ...

2012-01-28T22:59:00.000Z

The winner of our Pink and Blue colour challenge is ....

That's you if your name is Jeanette!

Please email us Jeanette to claim your prize.

After a lot of umm-ing and ahh-ing and trying hard to narrow the choice down to just three we have our top 3 of the challenge

Pat

Mina

Cathy

Please take our Top 3 badge from the sidebar ladies and you should all come back tomorrow as we are having another fabulous giveaway, something a little bit different :)

A Sunday Giveaway ...

2012-01-22T09:01:00.000Z

Have You Heard??

Aren't these just the sweetest little woolfelt mice pin cushions?? Our very talented Design Team member Gail made them for the current pink and blue colour challenge - that challenge runs for another week by the way so there is lots of time to enter your pink and blue projects, check out this post for all the details.

Anyway, back to the mice ... as they've told you they're looking for a new home. Whilst they love living here at Ribbon Girl HQ they are adventurous mice and would like to travel and see new places ... so we're giving them away.

If you would like to win one of the mouse pin cushions plus a selection of the Ribbon Girl's favourite decorative pins then just leave us a comment telling us where the mice would be travelling to on their adventures to you and we'll pick out 4 winners at random next Sunday (29th January)

Gail's supplies for making mice:

Wool Felt

Polka dot buttons

Decorative pins

Love Mary and Andrea x

Colour Challenge No 15 ...... Blue and Pink

2012-01-15T09:00:00.009Z

Hi, today we have the start of a new colour challenge here at the Ribbon Girl blog.

The challenge for January is to create a new project (please no backlinking) using the colours of pink and blue and we have two fabulous prizes for one randomly drawn winner.

The lovely girls at Lili Of The Valley are offering a £10 voucher to spend in the LOTV online store ...

... and we have a gorgeous prize of ribbons, lace, trim, flowers and buttons from the Ribbon Girl

As usual our rules are simple - create a new project using the colours of this challenge, blog about it mentioning our challenge then link us up using the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post. The challenge will run until January 28th at 9PM (UK time) when the winner will be chosen at random and we will also show the projects made by the 'I was top 3 at the Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge' badge winners. Before we show you the beautiful projects that our Design Team have created using various ribbons, lace, twine, buttons, charms, felt, flourishes and embellishments from the Ribbon Girl, we want to introduce our Guest Designer Lorraine

How long have you crafted for?

I have been crafting since as long as I remember, hand sewing clothes for my dolls when I was really little but started cardmaking 5 years ago. I dabbled in cross stitch, pottery, glass painting, mosaics but then a cardmaking craft shop opened here and it was like a calling,,, I had found my niche :-)

What is your favourite type of card to make?

I don't have a favourite type really, I feel that I still have alot to learn and I will have a go at anything but I do think easel cards are extra special :-)

Your favourite colour combination to work with?

My favourite colour is blue but I love all colours and it really depends upon what the card need and what occasion/person it is for.

How often do you craft?

Every day unless I am away on holiday. I just LOVE it :-)

Do you have a tidy desk or a messy desk?

VERY messy, I did try to tidy it once and couldn't find anything so I gave up doing that ! :-)

Do you listen to music when you craft, and if so, what type?

Not really, but I should !! I have an ipod and don't know how to use it !! Will have to sort it out :-)

Do you prefer to buy the latest fashion 'must have' OR craft stash?

Oh craft stash every time ,,, I never even think about clothes now !! I live in jogging bottoms and when I 'dress up' it's usually jeans !

What is your favourite occasion to make a card for?

I think that would have to be New Baby :-) always sooo cute and such a happy occasion.

What type of crafts do you do other than papercrafts?

I mentioned a few earlier ,, but they have all taken a back seat ! I don't really do any other crafts now ,, there are always DT deadlines to meet ! :-)

... and here are Lorraine's gorgeous projects

The rest of the Design Team projects:

Claudia

Tiets

Vicky

Have fun, Mary and Andrea x

Belated winner of our November Jingle All the Way .....

2012-01-09T18:43:00.000Z

We are so sorry that we did not announce the winner of the 25th November Jingle all the Way to Christmas Challenge - this was when Andrea was out of action with her slipped disc, and we are very grateful to Hazel for reminding us that we still had to pick the winner - thanks Hazel!

The winner was chosen by random.org and is No 118

that's you Imke - please email us with your details so we can send you your prize of a Ribbon Girl Mini Ribbon Kit

And the two winners are ...................

2012-01-08T21:33:00.000Z

The winner of the Ribbon Girl Red/Black/Cream colour challenge No 14 is No 18 - that's you

Corrie

You win a red mini ribbon kit, a black mini ribbon kit, a £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley to spend in their online store AND the glorious red/black/cream mug rug made by the multi talented Ribbon Girl Gail!

Wow - a bumper prize Corrie, so email us as soon as you can with your address etc and we will get your prize in the mail to you!

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Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments you left us to celebrate reaching 1,000 followers!! We have picked a winner at random from the comments left on the blog, and it is you

Jane

Please email us and we'll send your voucher

Congratulations to the two winners!!

We'll be back next Sunday, 15th January with the details of our 15th Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge and we've got a fab prize up for grabs!

See you soon, Mary G x

WhooHooo ........ 1000 Followers Giveaway!

2012-01-05T17:16:00.000Z

WhooHoooooo we have 1000 followers to our Ribbon Girl blog and to celebrate we're giving away two £10 giftvouchers to the Ribbon Girl online store

Our 1000th follower was Naomi so if you could contact us we'll arrange to send you your gift voucher and the other gift voucher will be picked at random from everyone who leaves a comment on this post, you need to be a follower of this blog but other than this anyone can enter worldwide :)

If you aren't a follower then simply join by clicking the link in the sidebar

Please leave your comments by Sunday evening 9PM (UK time)

Mary & Andrea

HAPPY NEW YEAR! ........................

2012-01-01T11:27:00.001Z

We would like to thank our very talented Design Team for all their fabulous creations during 2011 and our customers for their orders and for joining in with all of the Ribbon Girl colour challenges and give aways during 2011 (and just to remind you the red/black/cream colour challenge see below, will run until next Sunday so you still have time to enter)

We wish you all a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful 2012

and here are a few cards Andrea and Mary have made over the Christmas and New Year holiday

'Celebrate' by Andrea who used a Hanglar image coloured with Copics and embellished her card with a Zva flourish, large white pom pom trim, pearl hat pins, 32mm cream vintage style lace and oloroso seam binding

'Happy NewYear' by Mary who used a Magnolia image coloured with Copics on a background of Pion papers and she embellished her card with a variety of leaves cut with Magnolia doohickey dies, mulberry flowers distressed with tea dye ink, a pearl hat pin, cream cluny lace, peach colour satin edge sheer in two widths

'Thank You' by Andrea who used a fabulous tree die from Lil Inker Designs, black gingham ribbon, dark brown pencil stripe ribbon and sentiment from Papertrey Ink - photographed against a background of Pion papers, our current favourite

All ribbons, flowers, flourishes, pom pom trim, lace and pins are from www.ribbongirl.co.uk

Thanks once again and Happy New Year!

Mary and Andrea xx

Colour Challenge No 14 ...

2011-12-18T08:00:00.006Z

Hello, welcome to the 14th Colour Challenge here at the Ribbon Girl blog. We're all in full scale Christmas preparation mode so as this is the last colour challenge before Christmas we have 3 prizes for the lucky winner of the challenge. This colour challenge is based on the colours of red, black and cream as chosen by our lovely Ribbon Girl Vicky

Our regular sponsors, the wonderful girls at Lili Of The Valley are giving a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

We have a red and black ribbon kit from Ribbon Girl

We also have a gorgeous quilted mug rug made by our super talented friend and Ribbon Girl Gail

Our rules for the challenge are very simple - create a new project using the colours of red, black and cream, blog about it mentioning this challenge then come back and leave us a direct link to your project using the InLinkz button at the bottom of the post. Please play fair and don't link to older projects, only new projects will be entered into the giveaway for the prizes.

Our Design Team have created a fabulous array of projects and they have been joined by our Guest designer for December, Debbie Dolphin. We were both thrilled when Debbie agreed to join us for this month and we asked her to tell us a little about herself

My Name is Debbie Dolphin and I live in Yorkshire in England.

I have been crafting most of my life but making cards for the last 15 yrs or so. I am married with 2 children. Callum who is 15 and Sophie who is 12. I love all types of stamping and I especially love Magnolia stamps and painting with Distress inks. I'm such an addict. I am also on the design team for the Magnolia in Sweden and often appear in their magazine Magnolia INK.I feel so honoured to be chosen as Guest DT for the Ribbon Girl

Debbie's wonderful blogs can be found here and here and this is the fabulous project that she created for our challenge

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The winner of our Red Ribbon Giveaway is KAREN

please email us with your details and we'll send off your prize as soon as we can)

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Here are the rest of the Design Team projects

By Mary

By Claudia

By Jo

By Gail

By Jane

By Kath

By Lucy

By Mandy

By Nicole

By Tab

By Tiets

By Vicky

By Andrea

By Dawny

The challenge will run for longer than usual to cover the whole of the Christmas period and will close on January 7th, 2012 at 9PM (UK time)

We would like to wish all of our customers, followers, challenge participants and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year filled with plenty of opportunity for crafting :)

Love Andrea and Mary

Red ribbon giveaway .....

2011-12-11T19:35:00.001Z

We've got a really nice selection of red ribbons for you to win

1 metre of:

Red 38mm Faux Silk

Red 38mm Silky Crush

Red 25mm Organza with Heart Edge

Red 25mm Satin Ribbon

Red 23mm Plain Organza

5 Metres of Venetian Red Seam Binding

plus

1 metre of White Cluny Lace

1 Pack of 5 Red Heart Pins

1 Pack of 10 Small Red Polka Dot Buttons

Just think of all the Valentine cards you can make with this sumptuous selection

All you have to do is leave us a comment and mention this giveaway on your blog - the winner will be drawn at random on Sunday 18th December

And don't forget, we've got loads of red ribbons in silks, satins, grosgrains, saddlestitch and cotton in checks, spots, dots, in the Ribbon Girl online store - why not visit soon to select ribbons for your Valentines Day cards and projects?

We'll be back with the winner next Sunday, December 18th and details of the December Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge.

Mary and Andrea x

THIS GIVE AWAY IS NOW CLOSED

and the winner is .......

2011-12-04T10:06:00.002Z

The winner of the Ribbon Girl Pink & White Colour Challenge is

Crafty Chris

Please contact us with your details and we'll send your prize!

and the lucky winner of the wooden reindeer with bells, twine and ribbons is

Tracey's KRAFTS

Let us have your details and the postie will be paying you a visit!

For cake decorators we have new colours of beaded cord and now stock, pink/silver, lilac/silver, ivory/gold, white/silver and plain baby blue - and to compliment our 6mm and 16mm white/silver and ivory/gold lurex edged satin ribbon, we now offer a 38mm wide striped organza with either a silver or a gold edge - really pretty

For paper crafters and those who like to sew, we've got lots of new lace in stock, including some beautiful, very fine cotton cluny lace. .

Andrea is still out of action with back pain but I'll be back on Friday 9th with the winner of our third Jingle all the Way to Christmas challenge, plus we'll be having another fab give away ready for Valentines Day ...... sumptuous red ribbon, red heart pins and red buttons .......
See you soon, Mary G x

Christmas Reindeer Giveaway ......................

2011-11-27T18:53:00.000Z

Would you like a reindeer like this one that Andrea decorated? Well you could win everything you need - including the Kaisercraft wooden reindeer - it even packs flat so you can store it away for another Christmas! We got our reindeer from Merly Impressions

which is flat packed ready for assembly and decoration with papers, paints etc

plus 2 metres of Berisford red microdot ribbon

10 metres of Cherry Red Divine Twine

10 silver jingle bells

I'm sure you'll agree this is a great prize to win!

This giveaway will run until next Sunday 4th December 2011

All you have to do is leave a comment then leave a link on your own blog - if you're not a follower, we'd love it if you became one as we'd like to reach 1,000 followers! We will pick the winner at random next Sunday and will post the prize anywhere in the world .... so it could be YOU!

See you soon Mary xx

even more inspiration to get you Jingling all the way to Christmas ....

2011-11-27T08:39:00.000Z

Don't forget our Jingle all the Way to Christmas challenge is open until 9th December - and our pink and white colour challenge is open until 3rd December

Here is even more inspiration from the mega talented Ribbon Girls to help you complete your Christmas crafting -

(and if you pop back here this evening, there will be news of a fun give away!)

from Kath - a gorgeous Christmas Cracker finished with seam binding and jingle bells

and a beautiful card from Claudia Rosa who used cotton zig zag lace, white mulberry roses and natural button twine

See you all later - Mary and Andrea x

Jingle All The Way To Christmas ...

2011-11-25T08:00:00.002Z

Hello, hello, it's the 25th of the month so time for another Jingle All The Way To Christmas challenge here at the Ribbon Girl.

This will be the final Christmas challenge of the year as next month the man in the red suit will have been already!! We've loved seeing what everyone has been making for Christmas and our Design Team has once again been busy with their own Christmas crafting projects. The rules of our challenge are simple - create a new Christmas themed project, link to it using the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post and mention the challenge on your blog. Simple.

We have a prize of a Ribbon Girl Christmas ribbon kit to give away to one random person

These are the Design Team projects

By Jo

By Astrid

By Nicole

By Tiets

By Andrea

By our special guest Jackie

By Vicky

By Mary

By Kath

Have fun, we can't wait to see what you create

Mary and Andrea and the rest of the Ribbon Girls xx

Colour Challege No 13 ..Pink and White .... and a Christmas Candy Winner ......

2011-11-20T08:00:00.011Z

Hi everyone, it's a quiet weekend in the Ribbon Girl shop this weekend as Andrea is away on a crafting weekend with friends so Mum (that's me Mary) is home alone and in charge today to start our latest Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge. This month the colours for the challenge were chosen by Jane and she chose everyone's favourite of PINK and WHITE

We do of course have a prize for the challenge from our regular sponsor Lili Of The Valley, a £10 voucher to spend in their store (and did you see the new release last week? ...) We also have a Pink Ribbon Kit from the Ribbon Girl - please go to the bottom of this post to find the winner of our Christmas Embellishments Give Away

We only have a few simple rules which will hopefully keep our challenge fair to all who enter - create a new project that follows the colour theme (please no backlinking to older projects) and mention this challenge in your blog post. Link your direct blog post using the InLinkz button at the bottom of the post, this challenge will run until December 3rd 9PM (UK time)

Our talented Design Team have once again created a beautiful array of pink and white projects featuring ribbons, lace, buttons, felt, charms, pins and twine from the Ribbon Girl to inspire you:

A warm welcome to Astrid our Guest Designer for November

by Andrea

We can't wait to see what you create, have fun

The winner of our Christmas Embellishment give away is

Lisa lease email us with your address so we can send off your prize

Mary and Andrea x

Christmas Embellishment Give Away ......

2011-11-13T20:55:00.000Z

All you have to do to win this prize is to leave a comment and mention this give away on your blog - simples!

The prize consists of:

15 assorted Snowflake Charms

5 Christmas Tree Charms

5 Christmas Stocking Charms

5 Reindeer Charms

5 Silver Heart Charms

10 Jingle Bells

3 Candy Canes

3 Felt Reindeers

3 Felt Holly Leaves

We will pick a winner on 20th November when our next Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge begins!

Mary and Andrea x

and the winner is ..............

2011-11-09T08:54:00.001Z

The winner of our second Jingle all the Way to Christmas challenge, as chosen by random.org is No. 75, thats you

Jackie

please contact us so we can arrange to send of your prize Jackie

Mary and Andrea x

Colour challenge winner and more Christmas inspiration .............

2011-10-30T16:07:00.001Z

The winner of Colour Challenge No 12 (Green and Lilac) chosen by Random.org

No 4 - that's you Judy

please email us with your details so we can send off your prize of either a green or a lilac mini ribbon kit.

and here are more projects from the talented Ribbon Girls to inspire you and we hope you will join in with our Jingle all the way to Christmas Challenge which runs until 8th November!

Claudia made this fabulous Christmas card featuring Tilda with her teddy and the inside looks just as good as the front of the card! Her very pretty card in traditional colours has been enhanced with cherry red Divine Bakers Twine, gingham ribbon, white mulberry roses and 30mm zig zag cotton lace

We've got new 5 inch felt packs (pastel palette and rainbow brights) available in the store and Andrea used some to make the die cut holly leaves on this gorgeous pink Christmas card with co-ordinating box.

Mandy made some gorgeous Christmas tags using felt, lace, butttons and tiny pom pom trim

Tab made this beautiful Christmas card and used red tiny pom pom trim and cream cotton lace.

Mary used 38mm guipure lace and pink twill stripe ribbon for her first card then pink ruffle edge sheer, 18mm white cotton lace, a snowflake charm and mulberry flowers for her second card. All available from The Ribbon Girl online store

Mary and Andrea x

Jingle All The Way To Christmas Challenge ...

2011-10-25T09:00:00.003+01:00

It's the 25th of the month again which means that it's time for another Jingle all the way to Christmas challenge here at the Ribbon Girl. Just like last month we have a gorgeous collection of Christmas themed projects from the Ribbon Girl Design Team to inspire you and of course we have a fab prize too, all from the Ribbon Girl

To enter the challenge simply create a new Christmas themed project - please don't backlink to older projects as this challenge is all about getting ready for Christmas and finishing (or starting!!) some of the cards, gifts and crafty ideas that we have on our to do list - blog about it mentioning this challenge then use the inLinkz button at the bottom of this post to share it with us. The challenge will run for 2 weeks and will end on Tuesday 8th November at 9PM UK time

By Mary

By Jo

By Kath

By Jane

By Tiets

By Vicky

By Andrea

More inspiration and the green and lilac colour challenge is still open .....

2011-10-23T09:34:00.001+01:00

There is still another week to go if you would like to enter Colour Challenge No 12 using Lilacs and Greens - don't forget you can win a lilac or a green mini kit from Ribbon Girl plus a £10 voucher from the very generous ladies at Lili of the Vallehy to spend in the LOTV online store ..... today we'd like to share more fabulous projects from the Ribbon Girl DT .....

Jacqui has used seam binding, crown pins, guipure lace, mulberry flowers and a sweet little silver heart charm, all from here

A fabulous stamped card from Kath who used our plain pumpkin green buttons, white pretty blossoms and a piece of purple mini pom pom trim

A lovely birthday card from Lucy enhanced with silk ribbon and a butterfly charm - stunning!

A gift bag from Mandy decorated with pom pom trim and sky mauve seam binding

and look what Karita did with some of the flowers, ribbons lace and pins from the Pink and /Girly prize we sponsored recently at the Just Magnolia and hAnglar Stanglar challenge - she's a very talented lady and makes gorgeous cards!

If you want to see your projects featured here or on the Ribbon Girl website gallery, please email us

We love looking at your entries to our colour challenges, so keep them coming - you have until 30th October!

and please call back on Tuesday 25th October for our second 'Jingle all the way to Christmas' challenge - we've got some stunning creations from our Design Team to get you in the mood for all your Christmas crafting, and there will be a fab prize up for grabs!

Mary and Andrea xx

Colour Challenge #12 ...

2011-10-16T09:00:00.009+01:00

Hello, here we are with the Ribbon Girl colour challenge for October, sponsored by Ribbon Girl and Lili Of The Valley. This month our lovely teamie Kath chose the colours and she picked shades of Lilac and Green.

Our friends at Lili Of The Valley have once again kindly given us a £10 voucher to spend in the Lili Of The Valley store, so many gorgeous stamps to choose from!

We also have a Ribbon Mini Kit in either lilac or green from The Ribbon Girl and the winner can choose the kit they prefer

As usual the rules of the challenge are simple - please create a new craft project following the colour theme of lilac and green (no back linking please), post on your blog mentioning this challenge and leave us a direct link by clicking on the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post. The challenge will run for 2 weeks and will end on Saturday 29th October, 9PM UK time.

The Design Team have once again created some fabulous projects to inspire you

By Tab

By Dawny

By Gail

By Jane

By Lucy

By Andrea

By Jo

By Kath

By Mandy

By Mary

By Nicole

By Tiets

By Vicky

Have fun, we can't wait to see what you make for the challenge

Winner of the first 'Jingle all the way to Christmas Challenge' ......

2011-10-09T19:33:00.000+01:00

The winner of the first 'Jingle all the way to Christmas Challenge' is

Number 66

That's YOU Dewi Jani - congratulations on being picked as the winner and please contact us with your full address so we can send off your prize of a Chistmas Mini Kit plus other seasonal embellishments

We'd like to thank everyone for joining in with this challenge - we were overwhelmed by the number of entries and gorgeous things you all came up with - Andrea and I are just pleased that we didn't have to choose a winner, but left it to http://www.random.org/ ....... and just a word about leaving comments - like many other people at the moment, we have experienced major problems leaving comments on some blogs - rest assured, we have looked at every entry, but many of the comments we left would not publish!

We'll have another fabulous prize in our second Jingle all the Way challenge which begins on 25th October when we'll have more inspirational Christmas projects from our 'Ribbon Girls' to help you get ready for the big day, and don't forget to pop back on Sunday 16th October when the Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge Number 12 begins so please check back then for some fabulous projects from our mega talented Design Team and the colours you will be working with!

Mary x

More Christmas inspiration and a colour challenge winner ............

2011-10-02T22:16:00.002+01:00

The winner of Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge No 11, chosen by random.org is number 19 - that's you Sinnika

please email us with your address so we can send your prize off to you!

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We've very much enjoyed looking at your Christmas projects and here are some more projects from the mega talented Ribbon Girl Design Team - we hope you are inspired and you've still got another week to enter your project into the 'Jingle all the way to Christmas' challenge - click here for more details.

Jingle all the way to Christmas Challenge .......

2011-09-25T09:00:00.032+01:00

Hi, can you believe that in exactly 3 months it will be Christmas! A few months ago we (Mary and Andrea) decided that this Christmas would be a handmade Christmas for us and instead of buying our gifts we would make them. Well, with only 3 months left to go we have yet to make a single gift and have now redefined our homemade Christmas to mean that we're making all of our Christmas cards instead ha ha!

As we were making our plans (and by that I mean giving up and doing something easier and more realistic!!) we wondered if there were others who need a little help to stay on track with their Homemade Christmas plans - however simple or complex they may be - and decided that the Ribbon Girl could help. Today is the 25th of September and today and every 25th day of the month we'll be having a Christmas challenge.

Of course we can't have a challenge without a prize and we have a lovely collection of Christmas themed ribbons and embellishments for one lucky person

To have a chance of winning the Christmas prize then simply make a new Christmas craft project, blog about it mentioning this challenge and leave us a link using the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post. The challenge will run until the evening of October 8th UK time.

Some of our Ribbon Girl design team are obviously starting to think about Christmas too and sent these photographs of festive projects this week (lucky for us as we get to share them on the blog today!) so we have some eye candy to inspire you as well as a customer project that just happened to fit in with our plans (thanks Susan)

By Claudia

By Kath

Tiets

Mandy

By Andrea

By Nicole

By Mary

By Susan

(Susan is one of our regular customers who was inspired by the party favours in this blog post and she transferred the idea from paper into felt to make an Advent Calendar for her daughter (thanks for the photo India), One felt pouch will be taken from the basket each day during Advent)

We really hope that we can help you to keep on track with your Christmas projects - however large or small they are - and that you will join in with our challenge

Andrea and Mary

**and don't forget that you still have a week to enter our regular Colour Challenge and have a chance to win a minikit and £5 gift voucher from the Ribbon Girl as well as a £10 voucher from Lili Of The Valley**

Colour Challenge #11 ...

2011-09-18T09:00:00.004+01:00

Hello, the summer seems such a long time ago and our corner of the world is definitley starting to turn to Autumn now but the Ribbon Girls are back with our regular monthly challenges. We had a break during the summer to give all the Design Team a well deserved break but here we are with September's challenge. The colours for this month's challenge were chosen by our lovely teamie Jo, and she's chosen greens and browns. I'm sure you know how the challenge works but just in case you need a reminder - create a new project that fits in with the colour theme and leave us a direct link to your project using the InLinkz button at the bottom of the post. Please don't link to older projects as these won't be entered into the prize giveaway. As always there is no requirement to use ribbons or products from The Ribbon Girl but we'd love it if you do! We have a prize for this challenge and the winner will be picked at random after the challenge closes. The challenge runs for 2 weeks.

We have a fantastic prize for this month's challenge from our friends at Lili Of The Valley, once again Laila and Lisa have kindly given us a £10 voucher to spend in the Lili Of The Valley online store - and have you seen the latest Christmas release?? Oh my goodness whoever wins this voucher will have a hard job deciding which stamps to choose from as they are all gorgeous!

We also have a prize from the Ribbon Girl, a £5 voucher to spend in the store as well as a Halloween mini kit - this Halloween kit is a special Limited Edition kit and is chock full of lovely goodies for all of your Halloween crafts and more!

So, following the theme of greens and browns check out what our talented Design Team have created for your inspiration

By Jane

By Jacqui

By Jo

By Kath

By Nicole

By Vicky

By Lucy

This challenge will close on Saturday October 1st at 9PM (UK time)

Red and Black ........... always smart

2011-09-16T23:21:00.002+01:00

Faux silk ribbon ties the most beatiful bows - it feels gorgeous and it's only £0.90 pence per metre! We're sure our new colours of black and red will be as popular as the other colours of imitation silk ribbon

We're delighted to see the return of the very popular Champagne Silky Crush ribbon which has been out of stock for many months - we've also added this sumptuous red silky crush to the range.

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Don't forget that the Ribbon Girl September colour challenge will begin on Sunday 18th September - the projects made by our mega talented design team are fantastic - please pop back on Sunday and we hope you will join in with the challenge - there will be a lovely prize for the winner!

Mary x

Look what Lucy made ......

2011-09-14T10:39:00.000+01:00

One of our regular customers, Lucy makes really nice things and sells them in her Etsy shop - she used a snowflake charm on one keyfob and sparkly acrylic buttons on the owl - but isn't the gingerbread person just gorgeous - he's a hair snap! The Ribbon Girl has a nice selection of wool felt squares in various colour combinations

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If you would like to see any of your creations which include products from Ribbon Girl featured on this blog or in the gallery at the Ribbon Girl online store, please send me a photograph - crochet, knitting, sewing, in fact anything at all, doesn't have to be a card - check my own blog later today, I will be putting my step by step photos of me making a batch of spicy red tomato and fruit chutney - tastes yummy!!!! I think the only connection to a ribbon shop would be if I added a nice ribbon to give a jar as a gift (after it has matured for two or three weeks)

Mary x

New charms, a Christmas Tag, New Baby card and a sparkly mini kit .....

2011-09-12T08:00:00.001+01:00

We've got some new silver colour charms in the store this morning

Our new limited edition silver sparkly mini kit includes a selection of sparkly organza, silver glitter mesh, silver lame ribbons, plus medium crown pins, flower shaped sparkly buttons and five Christmas charms

Isn't this tag by Tiets gorgeous? she used some cream cotton lace and natural button twine

Our very talented guest designer for September JaneM sent us this gorgeous new baby card using the fuschia cotton scallop lace we added to the store last week

New Today ...

2011-09-05T21:07:00.000+01:00

The postman was kept busy today bringing boxes of lovely new goodies to the Ribbon Girl, check out the New Products section for details of these new pretty cotton lace colours and pom pom trims

Christmas goodies winner ...

2011-09-05T16:13:00.000+01:00

The winner of our Christmas themed giveaway from last week is:

Twinkle Star

Please contact us so that we can post out your prize.

Remember Tab is having a giveaway on her blog because we're celebrating her joining our team. She's off on her holidays for a few days and will pick a winner when she gets back - we think she has left the owner approval option switched on but still leave her a comment so that when she gets back and approves them all you'll be in with a chance of winning her giveaway!

Two New Girls and a Giveaway...

2011-09-04T09:15:00.002+01:00

Today we're so pleased to be welcoming two lovely friends to our Design Team. Firstly Jane has kindly agreed to be our Guest Designer for the month of September and we are so pleased that she's come back to work with us again. Jane makes lovely cards and papercraft projects, you can find her blog here and here are a few peeks of what she does best.

Our second new girl is joining our permanent Design Team, we are thrilled to welcome Tab Robinson to our team. Tab has a wonderful blog filled with cards, papercrafts, needlecraft, crochet and even cupcakes and sugarcraft. She makes the prettiest of projects, as can be seen in these photographs and we can't wait to get to know Tab better over the next few months

To celebrate Tab joining our team she's having a giveaway on her blog, just pop on over and leave her a comment and you might win this gorgeous selection of ribbons and embellishments which will be just perfect for all those Christmas crafts that you are starting to plan

**You must leave a comment on Tab's blog to be in with a chance to win the prize**

Favourite Friday ...

2011-09-02T21:17:00.000+01:00

Oops ... better late than never I guess! I was having too much fun making cards and almost forgot to post this Favourite Friday blog post. Today I've chosen to feature all things black and have searched the Ribbon Girl shop for all my favourites in black

Microdot Ruffle Edge Sheer

Pencilstripe Saddlestitch

Striped Twill Polka Dot Buttons

25mm Gingham Hat Pins

Dewdrops Mini Ribbon Kit

A Winner and a Giveaway ...

2011-08-28T08:40:00.001+01:00

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 ...

2011-08-26T07:51:00.000+01:00

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 ...

2011-08-23T22:46:00.000+01:00

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 ...

2011-08-19T09:17:00.000+01:00

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 ...

2011-08-14T10:16:00.001+01:00

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

Andrea

Claudia

Dawny

Gail

Jacqui

Jane

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

Button Winner ...

2011-08-13T21:15:00.000+01:00

Well we're having a fabulous Birthday month here at the Ribbon Girl with lots to celebrate - lovely new site, pretty new things to sell, top secret news about a new ribbon girl joining our Design Team in September and giveaways a-plenty!

So onto the winner of the number of buttons in the jar party game from last week. There were actually 427 buttons in the jar, nobody guessed the correct number but there was someone who got pretty close to that number:

Knerton (Vicky) with a guess of 430

Knerton please contact the Ribbon Girl and tell us which 6 colours of small polka dot buttons you would like for your prize and also your address so that we can send them off to you.

Everyone else, thank you for joining in with our game and helping to celebrate our birthday. Check back tomorrow for another party game and chance to win a super prize from the Ribbon Girl

Party Games and Prizes ...

2011-08-08T08:52:00.001+01:00

***Competition Closed***

So, as you know The Ribbon Girl is celebrating it's birthday during the whole of August and it would be a very dull party without a few party games - and party games need prizes!

This game will run until the evening of Saturday 13th August (UK time) and the winner will recieve 6 packets of small polka dot buttons in the colours of their choice. So what do you have to do? It's simple - just tell us how many buttons you think there are in the jar.

Leave a comment with your guess and the winner will be the first person on the list who guesses correctly or the first person who is closest to the correct number of buttons when the game closes on Saturday night.

Winner of the Birthday Blog Hop ...

2011-08-07T20:19:00.001+01:00

The winner of the birthday blog hop on this blog is ...

Danielle

Please contact the Ribbon Girl with your address so that we can arrange to post your prize.

Keep an eye out on all of the other Ribbon Girl blogs to see if you've won a prize on any of their blogs - Mary and Andrea will be picking their winners soon after they've finished munching their Chinese takeaways :lol:

Check back tomorrow too as we have a fun game with a prize - well you can't have a birthday party without party games can you?

Winner of The Fairy ...

2011-08-06T23:20:00.000+01:00

The winner of the fairy giveaway is ...

Sally

Please email us to let us know your address so that we can post the little fairy to you.

Tomorrow evening all of the Ribbon Girls will be drawing the winners of their Birthday Blog Hop giveaways, it's not too late to join in with the hop

Changes at The Ribbon Girl and another Giveaway ...

2011-08-04T23:15:00.000+01:00

The Ribbon Girl is getting a new shop! You'll still be able to find all your favourites, as well as lots of new products too but you'll also be able to register and create an account, view your history of purchases and most exciting (well we think it is exciting!) you'll be able to search for a particular product by type, colour etc.

So, please forgive us if things aren't quite where they should be this week whilst we move in and get ourselves settled - you know what it's like when you move to a new house, it takes a couple of days to make yourself comfy, get things unpacked and arranged just how you want them.

Perhaps we need the New Shop Fairies to come in and wave their magic wands around to help us - and talking of fairies ...

If you would like to win this sweet little fairy made by our very own Gail as well as a few of the supplies that she used to make it please leave us a comment and tell us what name you would give her if you won. Leave a comment by Friday night (UK time) and we'll pick a winner at random

Ribbon Girl Birthday Blog Hop

2011-08-01T08:59:00.002+01:00

Today the Ribbon Girl is celebrating it's birthday with a fantastic prize filled blog hop!

There is a prize to be won on each blog simply by leaving a comment on every blog that you visit, each prize has a rainbow selection of ribbons, pins, buttons and charms. All the blog hop giveaways will end on the 7th August

This is the start of the blog hop so after you've left us a comment here then hop onto Andrea's blog, leave her a comment and continue on your journey.

If you get lost off here is the full list of all the Ribbon Girl DT members who are joining in with the blog hop

Ribbon Girl - that's us!

Thanks for joining in with the Ribbon Girl birthday celebrations, keep checking on this blog all this month for lots of giveaways and prizes as we continue to celebrate for the whole of August!!

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our lovely customers who love the Ribbon Girl as much as we do and to welcome Vicky to our permanent Design Team - we are so lucky to have her join us now that her guest designer spot has ended.

Winners!!!!

2011-07-31T22:26:00.000+01:00

We have two winners tonight, first the winner of the Aqua Colour Challenge which is

Emma

...and the winner of the Christmas mini kit which is

Miria

Ladies, please email us so that we can arrange to post out your prizes.

Everyone else - come back tomorrow as we will be celebrating a birthday!

Party favours made easy by Andrea

2011-07-29T23:39:00.001+01:00

Last Sunday was my Mam and Dad’s Ruby Wedding Anniversary. 40 years so it was always going to be special but I wanted to make it a bit more special so there was the usual stuff that daughters do for their parents – a cake, balloons, handmade card, spending the day doing the chores etc. being a taxi driver so that they could both drink at the party they hosted for their closest family and friends at their favourite Italian restaurant in the city where we live. As a last minute thing on Saturday morning I decided to make some party favours to put on the table at the restaurant, they were really quick to make and to be honest took hardly any effort but my Mam was thrilled and everyone who came to their party talked about them and generally enjoyed them. They added something a little bit personal to the restaurant meal and got everyone talking at the table which was a bonus as not everyone had met before. This is how I made the favours

Quarter of an A4 sheet of double sided paper

Tape on one short and one long side, wrap into a tube joining the short sides

Nudge the join over to one side and nip the ends together - no need for glue as you've already applied it before rolling the tube

Flip the tube over and pinch the ends together twising 90 degrees as you do

Punch a hole in the end

Add in the treat

Tie with a ribbon

Add embellishments

So, what I really wanted to share with you is that it doesn’t take a lot of effort to Make It Special, just do something a little bit different, to the norm. I am so pleased I did this for my parents and they were thrilled – I guess what I could have done was to take a photograph of both of them but I forgot!!

Papers – Enchanted by Kristin Cronen-Barrow at sweet Shoppe Designs

Heart charm and 7mm ribbon from Ribbon Girl

Andrea x

ps don't forget that the aqua colour challenge closes on Sunday night, as does the red mini kit give away - see below!

Mini Kit Giveaway ...

2011-07-27T15:35:00.000+01:00

Hello, we've been celebrating at the Ribbon Girl this week as it was Mary's Ruby Wedding Anniversary on Sunday. To celebrate we're giving away one of our red mini kits

If you'd like the chance to win a mini kit from us just leave a comment on this post before Sunday evening (UK time) and the lucky winner will be drawn at random

Colour Challenge #10 ...

2011-07-17T08:00:00.003+01:00

** edited to add the winner of the Christmas Mini Kit give away - it's you Archies Mum - please email us with your name and address please and we'll post the kit to you.
Here we are with our tenth Ribbon Girl colour challenge and for this challenge our very talented design team member Nicole has chosen shades of aqua as the main colour focus. Once again we have two fabulous prizes for the challenge from our friends at Lili Of The Valley and Ribbon Girl.

Lili Of The Valley have given us a £10 voucher to spend in their online store

Our second prize is a gorgeous Aqua mini kit from Ribbon Girl

So, on to the challenge - create a new project using shades of aqua and link us up to it using the inLinkz button at the bottom of this post. You don't have to use ribbon but of course that would be nice and if it happened to be from the Ribbon Girl that would be even better! :) Our fabulous Design Team have been busy creating some amazing projects to inspire you:

By Nicole

(Lace, satin, charm)

By Dawny

(Lace, organza spot ribbon, bakers twine, polka dot button)

By Claudia

(seam binding, button twine, polka dot button, charm)

By Gail

(crystal swirl, polka dot buttons, button twine, lace, satin ribbon, seam binding, pin)

By Jane

(seam binding, cluny lace, pin)

By Andrea

(sheer ruffle, crystal swirl, heart charm, fancy pins)

(fancy pins, organza spot, pom pom trim)

By Kath

(lace, dewdrops)

By Jo

(cluny lace, seam binding, fancy pin, dewdrops)

By Mandy

(cluny lace, sheer ruffle, seam binding, wool felt)

(seam binding, polka dot button)

By Vicky our talented Guest Designer

(Openweave, polka dot buttons, charm, bakers twine)

By Tiets

(Sheer ruffle, heart charm, dewdrops, polka dot button, button twine, very fine cluny lace)

By Jacqui

(Cluny lace, seam binding, fancy pin, polka dot button)

Our challenge will run until July 31st at 10:00 PM (UK time) and one winner will be chosen at random to win both the Lili Of The Valley and Ribbon Girl prizes
*** edited on 27th July to add this card below from Ellen who does not have a blog

Pink and Blue challenge over at Lili of the Valley .....

2011-07-14T09:32:00.001+01:00

The new challenge number 105 over at Lili of the Valley is to make a project using the colours pink and blue and the Ribbon Girl is providing one of our new green mini kits and Lili of the Valley are providing a £10 gift voucher to use in their online store - here is the fabulous card that our Ribbon Girl teamie Jacqui made:

Jacqui used cluny white fan lace, paradise aqua seam binding, aqua polka dot buttons and aqua decorative pins, all from the Ribbon Girl,

By the way, if you want the chance to win a fuschia mini kit, why not enter the Papertake Weekly challenge where the theme is HOT, HOT, HOT - they'd like to see pinks, reds, oranges etc - we're giving a Ribbon Girl fuschia mini kit!

and last but not least, you've still got time to win a Christmas mini kit - our giveaway remains open until Sunday 17th July!

We're so proud of Jo ..... and new arrivals .. and Norwegian Scrappers

2011-07-13T07:07:00.001+01:00

Our super talented Ribbon Girl teamie Jo is through to the final rounds of the Papercrafts Gallery Idol - 502 designers submitted 1,671 cards for 20 spots in the final of Papercrafts Gallery Idol and this was the last minute card that Jo submitted - she said she was totally amazed that her card made it through! we're not Jo, you really deserve it!

The theme for the first round is Do-It-Yourself embellishments and this is the card that Jo created, complete with a mini hand crafted book - we're sure you'll want to join us in wishing Jo the very best of luck in the competition! The cards have gone live and you can now vote in round one.

We're now stocking super sparkly buttons to enhance your cards etc - at only £1.00 for a pack of ten 2-hole 15mm buttons we think these will be very popular

We were approached by Wenche Jensen who is a member of the Design Team in the largest scrapbooking forum in Norway, http://www.scrapping.no/ with 14300 registered users! Wenche told us that Scrapbooking is actually a pretty new hobby in Norway but is expanding more and more each day. It was our pleasure to send them some Ribbon Girl products and we will feature some of their creations in the coming weeks.

Many thanks to Ann Kristin of Norway for the photo of these fabulous creations - she managed to use no less than 7 products on project shown above including very fine Cluny lace, cotton lace, pink satin ribbon, raspberry dewdrops, a pink polka dot button, some button twine and creamy white organza ribbon with heart border!

Ann includes a step by step to show how she made the fab flowers with seam binding and lace on this layout - thank you Ann.

We'll be back soon with information on new charms and don't forget you've still got time to leave a comment to be included in the give-away for one of our Christmas Mini Kits - the jingle bells make a gorgeous jingly sound!!

Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their get well soon messages following my total hip replacement three weeks ago - I'm getting around the house on two crutches and confident that in a few weeks time I'll be like a new woman! Mary x

More DT cards, new mini kits and a Christmas give away ....

2011-07-10T06:12:00.000+01:00

It's never too soon to start making one or two Christmas cards and following on from the success of our Special Selection Ribbon Kits we are launching a range of Mini Ribbon Kits in red, orange, green, fuschia, black, aqua and Christmas - if you would like to win one of the Christmas Mini Kits all you have to do is leave a comment and add a link on your own blog - the winner will be chosen at random next Sunday, 17th July

Now here are more fab cards made by our very talented Ribbon Girls:

Dawny P

White spotted organza and flat lace was chosen by Dawny to finish her gorgeous blue themed card

Jacqui

Jacqui's colouring is superb and this delightful image is complemented by a gorgeous Zva Creative crystal swirl and some cotton zig zag lace

Riets

Our June GDT Riets used Ribbon Girl Flat Lace, Seam Binding,Organza and White Hat Pin

Tiets

Tiets finished this lovely card with white satin ribbon

Mandy

Mandy used Blue Faux Silk and very fine cluny lace on this exceptionally pretty card

Felt Hairclips ...

2011-07-05T10:49:00.001+01:00

How to make a felt hairclip

Cut a small slit in a rectangle shaped piece of felt, open the hairclip and push through the slit, fold the felt over

Using coordinating thread and a small running stitch sew around the hairclip through both layers of felt

Trim around the hairclip

Diecut felt flowers and stitch around the edges

Add a polka dot button and stitch the flower onto the felt covered hairslide

Woolfelt, hairclips and polka dot buttons

Love from Andrea x

Colour Challenge Winner ...

2011-07-04T21:48:00.000+01:00

The winner of Colour Challenge #9 is .....

Cazza

Please can you contact us to let us know if you would like a pink or cream ribbon kit

Happy Cards ...

2011-07-04T09:45:00.005+01:00

Good Morning! I have more happy card projects to share from our fabulous Design Team and today it is Jo who is in the spotllight

Button twine, polka dot button

button twine, fine cotton lace, seam binding

Seam binding, organza

Seam binding, crystal flourish, fine cotton lace, button twine

Cream check ribbon, polka dot button, button twine

Pretty in Pink ...

2011-07-03T07:23:00.002+01:00

Our lovely friend Bev made these beautiful cards last month for us and I'm only now getting them up on the blog. I do have a good excuse though as Mary (my Mum) has been in hospital for an operation so I'm by myself in the Ribbon Girl shop for now. Anyway, I thought I would share some pretty projects from our fabulous Design Team over the next few days to give Mum something nice to look at :)

Pink organza ribbon, heart charm, cluny lace and pink crown pin

Fine cotton lace, polka dot button

Colour Challenge #9 ...

2011-06-19T08:00:00.003+01:00

Hi, it's Andrea here with a brand new Ribbon Girl colour challenge. We had an amazing response to last month's colour challenge and this month the colours for the challenge have been chosen by Mary

As usual we have two fantastic prizes for our randomly selected winner from the Ribbon Girl and our lovely friends Lisa and Laila at Lili Of The Valley. LOTV are generously giving a £10 voucher to spend in the LOTV online shop - did you see the new Here Come The Girls stamps this week?

The Ribbon Girl are giving either a pink Ribbon Kit or a cream/white Ribbon Kit

So, our challenge this month is to create a project based on the colours pink and cream. Blog about your project mentioning this challenge then link us up to the blog post by using the inlinkz button at the bottom of this post. Please play fair and only enter new projects - projects that you blogged about before the challenge started won't be entered into the prize draw. The challenge will run for two weeks until 9pm UK time on Sunday 3rd July

To inspire you and kick start your creativity check out what the Ribbon Girl Design Team have been doing, we are welcoming Riets to our team this month as a Guest Designer

By Gail

By Bev

By Dawny

By Andrea

By Jane

By Jacqui

By Kath

By Mandy

By Mary

By Tiets

By Riet our fabulous Guest Designer

By Claudia

By Jo

Fab Chick Winner ...... and a sneaky peek .....

2011-06-16T08:23:00.002+01:00

Don't forget to visit on Sunday 19th June for the Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge - here is a sneaky peek - you'll be bowled over by the DT projects - so much inspiration!

The winner of the fabulous chick give away is Karen - get his cage ready Karen and email us so we can send him to his new home!!

Be inspired by these gorgeous cards (and the fab chick give away)

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One lucky reader can have this fab chick made by our very clever teamie Gail for last month's colour challenge - just send us a comment and we'll pick a winner on Wednesday evening, 15th June 2011

We are delighted to show some projects made by our very talented customers and the Ribbon Girl Design Team - all of the embellishments mentioned are available from the Ribbon Girl online store where we strive to offer not only a fast turnround of all orders, but a friendly and personal service to all our customers, no matter how much or how little they wish to purchase

What a gorgeous Teddy Bea card by Bev - the charm, pins, dewdrops, cluny lace and organza ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl

Jane is a regular customer and we love to see how she has used our products - Jane added 38mm wide pretty pink sheer with satin bands to this bearthday card

A very clever way of using ruffled gingham by our customer Vicky

Dawny P added white 38mm organza spot ribbon and gathered up some of our flat lace to enhance this gorgeous card

This fabulous card featuring a little bird's nest by Mandy is finished with a gorgeous bow made from faux silk in pale blue and some very fine cluny lace

This card from the mega talented Jacqui would make any recipient smile - she added 30mm white cotton ziz zag lace, pale fuschia sheer ribbon and a fabby Zva crystal swirl

Jo has made her own flower by gathering white cluny cotton lace in traditional fan pattern behind a pink button and finished this very pretty card with 30mm white cotton lace, white seam binding and pink button twine

Great sentiment from Nicole - and doesn't that cream flower lace look pretty?

If you have any questions about products in the Ribbon Girl shop or need a tiny sample before you buy, just send us an email and we'll try to send you an answer the same day