I Haven't Got A Thing To Wear ...

This project from Gail popped into our inbox this week, we LOVE it!

Some text paper, Gail's favourite sizzix wings die and some glittery organza turned into this ...

(wide striped grosgrain, ruffle gingham, divine twine and a rose and glittery organza from the seasonal section)

Tooth Fairy

Something to make life easier for the Tooth Fairy when she is searching under pillows for missing teeth in the middle of the night!

I used a sqaure kraft decorative envelope and painted all the edges white before covering each section with paper. I added some blingy brads, swapped the natural twine to candy pink bakers twine and outlined each edge with Stickles.

 The label is cut with a Nestabilities tag die

 Inside the envelope is a small pink organza drawstring bag that I have decorated with a gingham bow, polka dot button and a fairy charm, All of these were stitched to the bag so that it still opens and closes - for adding the teeth!

We have a limited number of Fairy charms and they can be found in the special offers section of the Ribbon Girl shop

We have only got a couple of hours left for our colour challenge before the challenge ends

Cards from Jo

Jo has used the May Arts spotted grosgrain and ruffle gingham ribbons for this lovely Thank You card

This gorgeous Christmas card uses the striped twill and divine twine bakers twine

Colour Challenge #1

This is the first challenge here on the Ribbon Girl blog and it's a colour challenge

The challenge is to create a project with the main colour focus of black, white and orange and use the InLinkz button at the end of this post to enter your card. The links will close on Sunday October 3rd (Midnight UK time), and we'll randomly select one project to win this gorgeous prize from The Ribbon Girl.

As long as your project is linked by Midnight (UK time) October 3rd, you will be in the draw.

Please mention The Ribbon Girl in your blog post, use the colours black, orange and white as your main colour focus and be sure to link directly to the blog post or gallery image which features your project.  You don't have to use ribbons on your project but it would be nice if you do :o) We'll post the prize worldwide so we need to be able to contact you through your blog.

Here are some examples

By Andrea

(pencil stripe ribbon, fancy pins and a Lori Boyd Lollipop stamp)

(Ruffle ribbon, polka dot button, bakers twine and Bewitching digital kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs)

By Kath

By Jo

By Wendy

By Jane



Party Favours

Today I wanted to share these cute party favours that I've made using our little packets and coloured bakers twine.

These little packets are actually what we use to package up our buttons and twine but we found that they were useful for so much more than just posting your goodies out to you - party favours, enclosures for journalling tags and to hide treasures away on scrapbook layouts, little pockets to go on cards and tags. We found this card on Kirsty's blog that she had made by recycling the button packaging from an order and so started the journey of stocking the packets in the Ribbon Girl shop. We have 3 different sizes, sold in packs of 10 and they can be found here

I'll be back later on with a shop stock update and the last of our exciting news regarding our Design Team

Baby Cards

Jane and I have both been playing with ribbons, paper and digital stamps by our talented friend Lori Boyd and we made a few new baby cards

Jane made this beautiful Sugar and Spice card, I love how she attached the little charm to the ribbon by hanging it on the fancy pin

(plain grosgrain and fancy pins)

I used the boy version of that stamp to make this card. I added a scrap of lace across the bottom and tied the buttons up with bakers twine

(lace and bakers twine)

My girly baby card was a bit non traditional as I stayed away from pink and went with red - just in time too as our neighbours became Grandparents for the second time so this card went nextdoor to celebrate their new arrival

(pencil stripe, small check gingham and bakers twine)

Shop Update

We've been busy today sorting out a big delivery that arrived and adding new stock to the Ribbon Girl shop - well we had to do something to keep ourselves busy whilst it rained and rained and just kept on raining here all day!

So, this is what we added to the shop today:

Pink and yellow Divine Twine bakers twine

A couple of new ranges of ribbon including double sided reversible spotted ribbons - oh my goodness I am totally in love with these and no matter how many photographs I took of them I couldn't get across just how gorgeous they really are!

An open weave ribbon, really gorgeous colours and it is soft and ties into lovely bows

Gorgeous striped twill in the prettiest of colours

We've also added a couple of new lines to our seasonal/special offer section including these cute acrylic candy canes - I'm looking forward to adding these to my Christmas crafts! as well as satin cutout holly leaf ribbon

I even spent time this morning playing with all this lovely ribbon and I made a few cards but because of the really awful weather the photographs for those will have to wait until another day :)

There is still time to join in with our ribbon giveaway, look here for the details. The lucky winner will picked on Sunday night

Andrea x

New Colours of Bakers Twine

I just added two new colours of Bakers Twine to the Ribbon Girl shop ~ Green Apple and Orange, both totally gorgeous and can be found here

If you're looking for the giveaway post it's further down :)