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

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

Felt Hairclips ...

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

Happy Cards ...

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 ...

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

Polka Dot Buttons and other pretty things!

Lots of lovely colours of polka dot buttons are back in stock including the popular pale lime green and lavender. Debbie made a gorgeous card and added one of the lavender buttons as an accent to the flower. I love how she made the design using patterned papers and the pastel colours are gorgeous!

She has also been busy creating for the festive period and created this gorgeous Christmas card using stamps from Banana Frog, stitched edge ribbon and a pretty diamante ribbon buckle

I love the non traditional colours of this and now I feel inspired to get sparkly with diamante buckles!

Sew Sweet

Kath makes the most gorgeous cards and when this popped into our email inbox there was a sharp intake of breath!

Isn't it gorgeous? I love the little details that Kath has added like the polka dot button on the front of the sewing machine, the thread running through the machine down to the needle and the lace positioned to look like it is being sewn in the sewing machine.

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



Scrapbook Layouts

Talented Ribbon Girl Debbie has made two gorgeous scrapbook layouts

(buttons, diamate charms and buckles and lace)

(polka dot buttons)

Beautiful Cards

Kath has been busy playing with ribbons and buttons this week and she has made two gorgeous cards

Kath used yellow striped twill, heart pins and polka dot buttons

For this pretty card Kath used ruffle ribbon, polka dot buttons and lace

Thank You

Our lovely Ribbon Girl Lucy made this perfectly simple card using short lengths of ribbon, button twine and polka dot buttons - see that blue button? It is the back of the polka dot buttons which are reversible

Polka Dot Buttons

As well as stocking a wide range of pretty projects The Ribbon Girl also sells embellishments to use with your ribbons and today we have filled a few shelves with gorgeous polka dot buttons. With white polka dots on one side and a solid back the buttons are reversible so are really easy to use in all of your projects

They are perfect for the centres of flowers

Or as a design feature