Strawberry Molly Giveaway ...

Hello, we've been very busy this week with the arrival of the Molly Blooms stamps at the Ribbon Girl. We have a fabulous giveaway but first I wanted to share these gorgeous cards - all using the Molly Blooms stamps

By Jane

(Molly Bloom stamp, guipure lace)

By Mary

(Molly Bloom stamp, silk ribbon, ballerina shoes charm)

By Andrea

(Molly Blooms stamp, gingham ribbon, button twine, apple charm)

(Molly Blooms stamp, tea dyed gingham ribbon, small polka dot button, umbrella charm, button twine)

So, onto the giveaway - to enter simply mention it on your blog and leave us a comment on this post. We'll pick a winner at random next Sunday evening (May 8th, UK time)

The prize includes:

Strawberry Molly stamp

Saddlestitch ribbon

Large check gingham ribbon

Microdot ribbon

Organza spot ribbon

Satin spot ribbon

Polka dot buttons

Strawberry charms

... all in a felt strawberry bag

Have a lovely week, we'll be back tomorrow to announce the winner of the latest colour challenge and to bring you some more Design Team projects

Andrea and Mary

Projects from the Design Team ...

Our Design Team (the ribbon girls) have been busy creating some gorgeous projects using products from the Ribbon Girl store

By Kath

(red ruffle gingham ribbon, dewdrops)

By Jane

(Molly Blooms stamp, oloroso seam binding, pale green polka dot button, button twine)

By Andrea

(Sheer satin band ribbon, diamante heart stick pin)

By Mary

(satin ribbon, twisted bead cord)

Remember there is still time to leave a comment to be in with a chance to win our latest giveaway (see this post) and our new colour challenge will start on Sunday

Molly Bloom Stamps - In Stock ...

We received our new delivery of Molly Bloom stamps this morning, they've all been listed in the shop and they've been sitting looking at me all day. We spotted these stamps at the trade exhibition we went to last month and could hardly wait for them to arrive! They just go perfectly with all of the ribbons and charms that we stock. Most of them arrived this morning and some are to follow and we put in another order this morning so they should be here soon.

Here are some cards that we've made using the Molly Bloom Stamps

By Andrea

Rainy Day George stamp

Striped cotton ribbon

Glossy Accents

Umbrella charm

Button twine

Molly With A Brolly stamp

15mm gingham ribbon

Umbrella charm

Button twine

Cotton lace

Heart pin

Molly at the Beach stamp

Sheer ruffle edge ribbon

Vintage style hat pin

Angel Fish charm

Stickle glitter glue

By Jane

George in the Rain stamp

Loopy Trim

Scarecrow stamp

Striped cotton ribbon

Small polka dot button

Button Twine

Design Team Mega Roundup

Warning - Mega huge post coming up!!

Our Design Team have been cooking up a storm during the last few weeks and I have stacks of projects to share with you today

We love every single one of Lucy's cards and these are no exception

 I couldn't resist sharing this one, look at all those owls sitting on a 'branch' of Button Twine - how cute?

Jo has made some gorgeous creations, we love all the details she adds to her cards

Just look at this clever card from Jane, she used the Button Twine to make the dog lead!

 Wendy has been super busy, we loved how she used the red ruffle ribbon on the edge of the card - and Andrea's all time favourite red saddlestitch ribbon too:)

 And these are our projects, Mary was inspired by this post on Kath's blog to have a go at making a miniature wreath hanging

And see those holly berries? they are made using the latest addition to the Ribbon Girl shop - Dewdrop embellishments. Don't they make perfect holly berries?

Finally these are Andrea's cards

Thanks to all of our Design Team girls, we are so grateful for all that you do for us and we love seeing all your creations. We hope Debbie will be back online soon as she is having horrible computer problems (we can't imagine how you feel Debbie with *shock* no internet!!)

We are always interested to see the projects that our customers have been making and we *might* just be looking around for next month's guest designer :)

Love from Mary and Andrea - The Ribbon Girls

Design Team Projects and a Shop Update

Our Design Team are, quite simply, the BEST! We love working with them, feel so priviliged to be getting to know them better and are very proud when we get to show their projects on our Ribbon Girl blog. Just look at what they have been making over the last few weeks

By Jane

By Lucy

By Wendy

By Andrea

By Mary

You might notice that we have been having a move around in the shop (and are still working on this). During the last few weeks we've taken delivery of lots of new products and expanded our range of ribbons and ribbon embellishments so much that we've had to create several new sections to the shop. Also some ranges were 'sharing' a section but now that we've added extrra colours and designs we've given these their own home.  I shall try to go back through the blog and change the links to products but in the meantime, if you do follow a link and end up in the wrong section of the shop the sidebar will help guide you to where you need to be.  It might take us a few days to get everything where we want it and we're also waiting for a couple of deliveries from America with new products so keep checking back.

We've had a great response to our Colour Challenge and it's open for another week, there is a great prize on offer in the prize draw so enter your project and you might win

Back To School

Jane has made this gorgeous card for a little girl starting school

Jane used gorgeous yellow ruffle ribbon and that sweet school girl is a digital stamp by our friend Lori Boyd and can be found here

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)

Snowballs!

Jane made this gorgeous easel Christmas card with a beautifully inked image and touches of glitter all finished off with a striped ribbon bow

(red pencil stripe ribbon)

To Ewe

Jane made this darling card, the little sheep are so cute and she added one of our fancy pins to the ribbon bow for some extra sweetness

The Ribbon Girl

The Ribbon Girl is now open for business, the shelves are stacked high, parcels have been arriving from around the world and a few special friends have kindly agreed to join our design team to help showcase our products.  We are so excited to be finally 'live' after weeks of behind the scenes work and we hope you'll pop over to the shop to see what we have for sale.

To wet your appetite here is a gorgeous card by the talented Jane

(gold small check gingham)