Dear Santa ...

Lucy sent these photographs of a sweet little giftcard holder that she's made this weekend

Lucy used red pencil stripe and spotty organza ribbon

We're getting ready for our next colour challenge here at The Ribbon Girl, make sure you check out this blog at the weekend for details

Christmas Crackers

Last week when I was in John Lewis I saw this box of Christmas Crackers. I loved the colours and because I have one of those minds that work overtime and I think of daft plans! I thought I could make them into little gift packages - so that's what I did :)

I removed the ribbons that were tying each end, took out the naff party hat, toy and joke! and added a small gift. Then I tied the edges with new (much nicer) ribbon

(pencil stripe and large spot satin ribbons)

I had some scraps of red and green paper on my desk so glued it to pieces of chipboard and cut out the initials of my gift recipients then I added some glittery Stickles to make them sparkle

I'm really pleased with how they turned out - and I've made a start on my Christmas wrapping

**Just a reminder that our red and green colour challenge ends tonight but you still have time to enter and your might win! **

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



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)