.....who will be waiting for Mr Postie to arrive with their fruity ribbons?

....who are the four lucky winners of our Friday FREEBIE? It was all down to Rachie and Mollie.

Mollie picked numbers 25 and 13, and Rachie picked numbers 6 and 1 - oh sorry you want me to tell you the numbers are...

No 1. Jennie
Ahem! (just clearing my throat!) Me-me-me-me-me!  

No 6. Fiona Morris
Oh wow, a unique 5 a day!
Gorgeous ribbons as usual. I never cease to be amazed by your gorgeous ribbons and the variety you have to offer us.
x

No 13. Antiona
Beautiful creations again by the ribbon challenge winners. Oh please put my number in the bingo bag, a girl can NEVER have enough ribbons

No. 25 Tracey and Paul
4 winners that is so generous of you x x x

Congratulations everyone you have won some super scrummy ribbons, all you have to do is email us your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com so we can send you your 5 a day!

Big sorries (is there such a word?) to everyone who left delightful comments but did not win, thank you all, we love all your comments.  Lets hope the winners will leave a few comments tonight - no pressure guys honest!

I have another glorious selection of challenge goodies for you today.  If I have not shared yours yet please do not get worried, there is no favouritism - I put all the envelopes and boxes into a crate and pick them a batch at a time.  Yours will be shown soon, it was our largest challenge so far.

Oh an ATC, have not had one of those for a while. What a unique design Claire C  - that bow is just perfect in her hair.

It's a shame but the photo does not show how wicked this butterfly is.  Not sure how Claire c has made it but believe me it is fantastic.

Look at the ribbon fish......

.... see it is made totally from ribbon, Claire I love it.

Dorothy sent me another Pandora's box of delights for this challenge, this is the first card that fluttered out! I like the rose detail Dorothy, I should show everyone how easy this type of rose is to make - a future Hello Wednesday maybe.

Oooh these are very creative Dorothy, another first I believe.

Look at the work Dorothy has put into these parosols.

A very colourful rose arch - perfect colours Dororthy.

I think you liked to sew this new ribbon Dorothy, it certainly makes super flowers.

Another colourful creation Dorothy and I love your quote

 "Friends are the angels that help you fly".

What a super collection of treasues from Claire and Dorothy.

See you all tomorrow for Hello wednesday.....ummmm better get my thinking cap on!

Ooooh a long weekend. A bank holiday weekend, that sounds nice - are you doing anything special?

Before the weekend we need to have a Friday so it must be Friday FREEBIE time! What could the prize for this week be, well as it is a Bank Holiday weekend I thought of giving 4 prizes, yes 4 lucky readers could all become fruity!

What are you talking about Ali?  Let's get fruity with Bev's latest Ribbon Bag -5 a day!

We have all been told to eat 5 a day, Bev's ribbon bag contains- strawberries, mini grapes and large fat juicy grapes, cherries and cranberries (that's what we have called the red ones!). All the fruit has then been mixed together with co ordinating ribbons to create a scrumptious fruit bag.

You can find Bev's bag HERE - have you seen the way you can "super size" the photos on our new website? Just click on the product image and it will GO LARGE! Very LARGE! (sorry only works on new products added to the site since the launch)

If you would like a chance to win a Bev's Bag, 4 up for grabs remember, all you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment, we will pick the 4 Friday FREEBIE winners from our "Bingo" bag on TUESDAY. Good luck everyone.

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Are you ready for another show of crafty treats? Have a look at what our talented challengers have created with our NEW Organza Swiss Dot Ribbon.

Talk about the cat getting the cream - oops sorry I mean cake! Beautiful colours Natalie.

Oh look at Tilda, are those flowers for me?  Great idea to over lay the swiss dot ribbon on top of another organza ribbon, looks fab Natalie. I love the inside of this card...

...isn't that cool.

I had to show you the next creations today - as it is a Bank Holiday weekend there maybe a few of these around.

Delicious ice creams and.....

....bees buzzing around.  What a perfect combo Bonnie, we love them, what great fun ideas. Thanks for your note Bonnie really pleased to hear you loved the ribbons.

Jenny these are adorable colours, Bev and I knew that the pink ribbon with brown dots would be a winner and you have shown us how great it looks.

Oh Jenny just what I need after a long day at the ribbon warehouse - bath bombs.  Great mixing the dotty paper with the dotty ribbon - wicked.  Although you did confuse me Jenny, the bath bombs had escaped out of their little box and as your creations were packed in a recycled Dishwasher tablet box, I couldn't work out why you had sent me dishwasher tablets!! I got there in the end.

What with bees and now ladybirds, they must have all been attracted by the delights in Bev's bag! This ladybird from Jenny is extra special it contains little sweeties (for me!), wicked idea. Not sure the ladybird had a very good flight to Dorset, looks like she lost an antennaei thing, mabe a collision with a bath bomb in mid air!

WOW! what fantastic crafting goodies, thank you all so much they are amazing.  We hope you have enjoyed looking and may be go away with a little ribbon inspiration.

We hope you all have an amazing weekend.

We all decided to go out to lunch today.  Most people when they go out, take their handbag, maybe a coat - BUT me I take the Crafty Ribbons "Bingo" Bag.

It is a very well travelled "Bingo" bag and gets taken to the best of places.  It is not always treated with the love and care it should be , Mollie has run over it in her car before! Sam decided to take it on the climbing frame today and I got this perfect picture of him picking this weeks Friday FREEBIE winner. Look at that smile, I am sure he is going to break a few hearts in his time.

It's good to smile and who is number 22 Karen

What gorgeous ribbons, as usual Please add me into your free draw as I would be delighted to win these!!

Well done Karen we hope you have a big smile on your face, just like Sam's - maybe without the tomato ketchup!!  Please can you email us your address to craftyribbons@gmail.com so we can send your collection of In the Pink Ribbons.  Mega thanks to everyone that left super cool comments, we love reading them they make us feel special.  We are just so sorry that we can not give everyone a prize each week.

More Challenge parcels have been arriving, Christmas has come early!

Leslie this is a wonderful card, the ribbons make perfect flowers, and simply held in place with a brad.

When Bev and I chose the colours for this range, Pink with brown spots was at the top of our list, this card just say's it all to us.  Great colours Leslie, Bev certainly has eyes for this card.

Please do not worry if we have not show cased your creations yet, they will appear - we promise.

Friday FREEBIE - prezzie time - what delights this week.  While I have been working on our NEW website, the running of the warehouse has been left in the capable hands of the girls so I thought this collection of ribbons was rather apt for this weeks Friday FREEBIE.

If you would like to win this weeks Friday FREEBIE of  a WANT IT ALL Collection of In the Pink Ribbons then just leave us one of your delightful comments. There are 20 different ribbons in the collection and you will get 1mtr of each ribbon.  My favourites are these three!

Everyone go arrrrgh......

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Do you want to see some more challenge cards?  Thought you would.  Todays collection is from Sherry and they are amazing.

I love the soft colours used on Sherry's wall hanging, those dots really do show up.

Meet Miss Dotty Swiss (Sherry's name for her) she is wicked, very trendy - what would I do to have legs like that!!!

Now that is plain showing off Miss Dotty Swiss.

Sherry said she had fun making the goodies and loved the ribbons.  If you are not in the challenge but want to see the ribbons then just click HERE.

Have a fantastic weekend,  hope the weather will be kind to you all. 

No silly, we are not sending Mollie off to a New home - no one would want that "Animal" as per her t shirt. I am talking about our Animal Cuties Ribbon Collection (Here) that are this weeks prize for our Friday FREEBIE. Mollie picked the number for us today, she is getting pretty good at it, but trying to get the "Bingo" bag off her is another matter, think I will have to make her one.

Mollie picked........

.....number 15 = Kara

oh wow i love the dog one, and the pony one, and the panda one and.......
Infact i love them all.
It would be so wonderful to win a whole set of new pets for my ever expanding zoo. lol
Have a great weekend and enjoy buying your ribbons.
xxx

Well Kara you have won them all - congratulations, all we need to get these animals to you is your address please to craftyribbons@gmail.com. Please do not call out the RSPCA if we send them by post!!

Thank you all for such wonderful comments and an extra huge thank you to those of you who have emailed or left comments about our NEW Website (not seen it yet, then click HERE), you are all so kind. Yes it was a lot of work, and if you enjoy it then it will be a great bonus. We still have a few issues that we are trying to iron out, it would appear that we had a "BUG" in our old system that would allow you to use two different voucher codes on one order, this new system will not allow it. We are seeing if we can re-install the "Bug" it may take a while!

Do you have an Apple Phone or a Android phone or smartphone? Yes - well, with our New webiste you can place orders straight from your phone, you no longer need to be at a computer.  So moving about on trains or buses to work, or even in hotel rooms, you can use our site as it is now fitted with the state of the art "On the Go" technology!

I'm bushed, begining to see double from staring at the screen all weekend, and as for my numb bum, well that is another matter!! I think I need an early night, is 6.30pm too early?

Oh I do like Fridays, and today is an extra special Friday - I am off to buy ribbon. Yippee!!

O.K. I know we have one of the largest collections of ribbons on the web, but I just enjoy ribbon and I got a call yesterday to say a new shipment had arrived and would I like first pick.  What could I say?  What would you have said?

I had planned to give the NEW Organza Swiss Dots away today (if you missed them you can find them HERE), but so many of you are in the New Ribbon Challenge that I didn't think you would want some more just yet - I will save it for another day.  Hope you are all enjoying the ribbons and having a good old play.  I have received several emails to say goodies are on there way back to me, so I should be able to start sharing the creates with you next week.

Think Ali, Friday FREEBIE, what special bundle of ribbon can we give away for this weeks Friday FREEBIE....

...got it! 1mtr of every design in the animal cuties range. We have, frogs, dogs, bunnies, flamingos, turtles - ooh so many I have forgotten them all but you can find them HERE.

So if you want to win a whole gaggle of new family members then leave us a comment, and we will pick a winner from our "Bingo" bag on Monday.

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By the time you read this, I may have my hands on a super collection of ribbons!! Thankfully this ribbon supplier knows that I am ribbon mad, so I do not even have to try and hide it!!!

Have a wicked weekend.

Who's the lucky person to win our Friday FREEBIE £20.00 voucher?

The decision was left to our Mollie, and she picked number........

....number 35 - Julie

Am excited and curious to hear about secret 'going ons' in the warehouse!
Would love to win £20 in this month's freebie, I could spend it 100 times over...at least.
Happy weekend everyone.

Well done Julie you have £20.00 to spend on our website, please email me at craftyribbons@gmail.com so I can give you the voucher details.  Sorry to all you other wonderful commentors, you leave such wonderful messages.

You are right about the gravatars (the little faces) Tracey, some of them do look grumpy!!  What i find really bad is when I am asked to put a comment on for someone (due to our spam filters), and it comes up with really funny face, I think oh no they will think I have picked that face!  I don't, it is all done automatically - promise.

Rachie has been busy with orders today, so I was given the job of sending out the challenge parcels - I have spots before my eyes!!!! I did get Sydney to help me put everything into the envelopes, and Sam tried to put the address labels on, so some of them are not very straight, sorry.

Another Friday, another week gone!

First Friday of August so it must be voucher week, yes we have a £20.00 voucher for this weeks Friday FREEBIE. You can spend this voucher in our web shop www.craftyribbons.com . As the winner you will be able to have fun filling your basket with wonderful ribbons and buttons and walking straight through the checkout without paying - now that sounds good.

So if you want to do a little retail therapy without the expense then leave us a comment and we will pick a winner on Monday.

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We have a lot going on at the warehouse, of which most is "Top Secret" - we will be revealing all soon. But at the moment it means that I have been stuck behind the computer for most of the week, I have not had my camera out since taking the picture of the Friday FREEBIE winning number,  and I have a numb bum from all the sitting down!!

Have a great weekend, I think I will be dragging Tony around part of the Jurassic coast to revive my bum and take lots of pictures - that should keep me going all through next week!

Ooooh I nearly forgot, IF and I mean keep your fingers and toes crossed, IF we receive a delivery today (we should have had it yesterday) then there maybe a smell of a new ribbon challenge in the air!!!!

We have had a busy day pulling, packing and despatching orders. Thank you so much to everyone who has placed wonderful orders with us, the Summer SALE is going well.  We have sold out of quite a few items but there are still tons left! If you have not had a peek yet, then please click HERE to start rummaging in the Summer SALE goodies.

You do all like your dots, don't you? One lucky lady is going to be receiving her dream collection soon... BUT who?

It's unbelieveable, some Monday's no one wants to be in the photo and other weeks we get three! It's like waiting for a bus!! Sydney held the "Bingo" bag, Mollie picked the number, while Bev held it to the camera - team work.

The winner of this weeks Friday FREEBIE is.......

No. 9 Lyn

Dotty.....spotty.....what ever you call them they're fab......and a summer sale!!!

Woooo Hooo Lyn you will be seeing spots before your eyes by the end of the week, all we need is your address please to craftyribbons@gmail.com .  If you want to have a look through the colours by clicking HERE and email us with your wish list of dots, we will be happy to send them to you.

For everyone else who went a bit dottie over our Friday FREEBIE, we are sorry you did not win, but we loved reading your comments, and don't forget it will be the first Friday of the month this week, so there will be a £20.00 gift voucher up for grabs this week. So you will be able to pick what ever you like - now that's cool.

How can it be week 31? How can it be our Summer SALE? Where has this year gone?

Do not tell me it will be Christmas soon, I already know - our NEW Christmas ribbon has been arriving in the warehouse over the last few weeks, but I have tried to ignore it (very difficult when it is all gorgeous!!). I know others do Christmas in July......BUT I just can not bring myself to do it. YES, we chose our Christmas ribbons (in January!), YES, we have taken delivery of some (cheaper if delivered in July!) YES, I love Christmas BUT....oh I do not know I must be getting old!!!!

Anyway less of my waffle you want to see what our Friday FREEBIE is....I found this photo that I had forgotten to show you.

We all love this Swiss Dot ribbon, it is just perfect.  This weeks Friday FREEBIE is......(NO not the shoes they are MINE!) A hand picked collection of bright zingie SUMMER (if you insist then we will include the christmas red ribbon) 10mm Grosgrain Swiss Dot Ribbons.

If there are any colours that you would love us to put into your collection, just mention it in your comment.  You can find all the colours HERE.  So leave a comment and we will pick a winner on Monday from our stylish ribbon "Bingo" bag.

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Wilma left a wonderful comment about her Friday FREEBIE prize she won last week.

Well actually its Thursday now but it doesnt really matter as i have just opened my parcel of Super-Jammy jam pot ribbons - they are fabulous!!!  If anyone is considering buying them - do it right now- the colours and the range of ribbons included is gorgeous.  Can't believe i was so lucky as to win this bundle - Thanks so very much Ali and Tony and all at crafty ribbons, you're simply the best!!!(better than all the rest, better.....................oops no dont start me off singing!!!)

xx

Wow thank you Wilma for such praise - you can find the Jam Pot Ribbons HERE.

Just in case you missed it last night, our....

......starts today.  Lots of ribbon bargains can be found HERE    When they are gone, they are gone!

Have a fantastic weekend, enjoy the weather, enjoy the summer, enjoy everything - soon it will be Christmas!