These only arrived into the warehouse yesterday and I just had to get them on the website, they are stunners!

ooooh I could stroke this Bling Eyelash forever, it is so tactile! Put it down Ali. 

When Bev and I opened the delivery yesterday I thought Bev was going to faint - she got sooooo excited about these two colours, purple and white. There are 8 awesome colours - Copper - Gold - White - Red - Aqua - Forest - Purple - Multi, you can see all the colours by clicking HERE.  

I have also been opening other kind of boxes today, yes Wilma you are right I like opening boxes!!  What am I going on about - the Easter Treat Ribbon Challenge goodies of course! We do have lots of treats for you to get your Easter creative juices flowing, watch this space, I will share the first batch with you tomorrow.

Amongst the Easter Goodies I found these "Cherry Pie" projects.

Margaret had not been well and was a little late getting her projects back to us - well worth the wait Margaret.

I adore these little boxes, they are wonderful, and filled with goodies for ME!

This card came in it's own little box - what a great idea Margaret. We do hope you are feeling better.

We are sponsors over at Quirky Crafts, not been over there before, then have a look http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com/

You could win some extra ribbons for your stash!

I have been invited out, Sydney has asked me round to play this evening with her and her two bunnies Fifi and Flopsy.  They were kind enough to loan us some hay for the Easter Treat photo shoot - thank you.  Bev thought she had brought two little girl bunnies, but one is getting rather fat!?

Have fun...

Rather late then never this weeks Friday FREEBIE - we do have a really really good excuse...

We had a huge delivery of ribbons first thing this morning and we all dived in, I am surprised you did not hear all the ooooh's and aaaah's, where ever you are.  Bev's pockets were bulging!!!  She has started her own ribbon collection at home and was going crazy.

I have just finished putting Cherry Pie onto the website so it is still warm!  Bet you can guess what this weeks Friday FREEBIE is... 

....YES a slice of Cherry Pie, make that 3 slices!!  They are sooo delicious you will have to have them.

For a chance to win one of the 3 Cherry Pie prizes all you have to do is leave a comment, and a WANT IT ALL Cherry Pie could be yours.  We will pick the winners on Monday from our "Bingo" bag.

If your comment is being blocked  by our spam filters please email the comment to us here craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will add it for you.  Your email address will then be verified and you will be able to leave further comments without any hassle. 

Not sure what you can do with ribbons printed with cherries, then click back later to see all the wonderful creations from our ribbon Challenge 12 - they are amazing and will have your taste buds bursting.

What a beautiful day we have had here in Brittany, the sun has been out all day, I even went out without a coat on!! I had a wander around the garden, and small signs of spring are popping up, little green shoots are just showing their heads.  Spring is on it's way - hooray!!

Just perfect to launch our NEW range of ribbons.

"WOODLAND"

A small collection of modern stylish ribbons called "Woodland".  Wonderful shades of leafy green, subtle creams and warm browns make this a fresh and inspiring range. Oh and there are dots too!!!

The ribbons and colours work so well together and at only 50p per metre it is stunning value. If you cannot decide which ones to choose then why not go for the WANT IT ALL, 1mtr of ALL 11 ribbons for £5.00

I have used 5 of the ribbons on this card, very simple to make and could be given to both male or female. I just stuck lengths of 4 ribbons onto card using double sided tape, then cut it into a narrower strip, mounted this onto a cream backing card.  For the ribbon ruffle, I stuck double sided tape to the card and roughly pleated the ribbon as I stuck it down.

With the ribbons I had left from the first card, I made this card! Waste not, want not!

Lydia we hope you passed your exams, we have had our fingers crossed all day.

Watch out, watch out little Mollie is walking!

Mollie did the honours of picking this weeks Friday FREEBIE winner. She picked the number from our "Bingo" bag and the number was...

This weeks Friday FREEBIE winner is 26 - Clare Horan

Well done Clare, sounds like you use lots of ribbons, so this Country Check ribbons is going to a good home.  Please can you email craftyribbons@gmail.com  your address details.  Thank you to everyone for leaving super comments.  Sorry if some of you had a problem with our software upgrade, but we got your comments on in the end!

We have a NEW range of ribbons called - Jelly Dots

Ooooooh they are so scrummy!!! 25mm grosgrain ribbon printed with coloured jelly dots.  Alpha tags have also designed matching tags, so your projects can be fully co-ordinated. Have a look at the range HERE

They look good enough to eat!  O.K. I confess that the sweeties did not make it back into the bag! Yummy.

We hope you all have a great week, keep checking the blog as we will be adding more NEW ribbons later in the week as well as "What you can do...." ideas.

We had another flurry of snow last night but nothing major.  All the counties around us seem to have been affected quite badly, but Dorset would appear to have escaped!  So everything as normal here at Crafty Ribbons, all deliveries have been going out on time.

We had a delivery of NEW ribbons due in this morning, the carrier called yesterday to say they would be delivering between 7am and 10am.  Please could we confim that we would be open - OPEN @ 7am, you must be joking.  So I gaily asked around if anyone wanted to come in early.  Everyone chorused at once "YES, I WILL ALI!"  Like hec they did - nope not one volunteer.  So it was all down to me and my mate Tony to be here for 7!!!!  I got my own back - I wouldn't open the boxes so they could see the ribbons - tee hee!!

Remember our Country Check range we launched last November...

...well it proved so popular that we have just added 11 NEW colours in all the 4 widths.  Look at them all HERE.  We even have a WANT IT ALL - ALL! That's 1mtr of ALL the colours in ALL the widths for £20.00

If you are more a stripey girl, then you will just fall in love with this NEW Fresh Stripe ,it will breath fresh air into any project.

Two widths of 9mm and 16mm in some wicked fresh colours. Have a look at them HERE

That's me done for today, as I was in for the "early shift" I am going home!

I was flicking through the new copy of Crafts Beautiful magazine which arrived this morning, as you do, while having a cup of tea.  OH NO!!! I screamed! I had got to page 31 and there was our new advert staring back at me with photos of three NEW Ranges for 2010.  My panic was that none of the ranges were on the website, I had completly forgotton about them.

So guess what I have been doing today - yep updating the website.  We now have three NEW ranges to show you! Umbrella Fun, Stars and Baubles

Snow has finally arrived in Dorset, we have been very lucky so far.  With all this bad weather do not forget to leave the house with your umbrella!! 

This is a real wacky little range, only 5 colours.  The umbrellas are printed on 16mm wide grosgrain ribbon.  This will certainly make people smile.

We had great fun on the next photo shoot, yes, we did eat quite a few of the iced gems.  They were jumbo ones, you could bite the iced bit off whole!

Little stars dancing along the satin ribbon.  24 different colours in this range, all on 9mm single face satin ribbon.  We did have these ribbons at the autumn shows, so they are NEW to the website but may not be new to you!

And the last range will add class to your project - Baubles on Grosgrain Ribbon.

Two widths 9mm and 16mm, the bauble design is scattered across the ribbon and printed in two colours.

We have lots of other NEW Ranges planned for this year, we know it becomes very difficult to "keep track" of whats new - so we have set up a new section on the website.  2010 What's NEW (Simple, when you think about it!)  All the new ranges we add we will put in HERE as well as in the relevant other sections.

We hope you are all warm and safe.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Wow doesn't time just fly by.  I cannot believe that it has come round to our January Pack SALE again!

Our ribbon packs are normally £5.00 each, during the month of January they are reduced to ONLY £1.00  That is a massive saving!! We have some NEW Packs that we have been selling at the Exhibitions this Autumn.

Why not have a look and snap up a bargain, there are over 40 different packs (at the moment!) to choose from, all colour themed. We have Valentine, Autumn, Christmas Tree and Orange Crush in the photos above.

Please feel free to tell your friends, family, colleagues about our January Pack SALE. Mention it on your forums, shout it from the roof tops!!!  This CRAZY RIBBON PACK SALE only happens once a year in JANUARY.

Have fun with ribbon

The Crafty Team

Do you want to create a traditional Country Christmas look this year?

Well you can with the charming Country Check red and white ribbon, which has only arrived in the warehouse today!

Look how the colours stand out against the green background of the ivy, this ribbon was made for Christmas!!

With 4 different widths to choose from 7mm, 15mm, 25mm and 40mm we are sure you will find a width for every job you have in mind.

Ali and Tony have arrived in Dublin safely, we gather the crossing was not too great – poor Ali!

It was a long set up for them today, although we all helped to re-stock the stand in the warehouse on Monday, we ran out of time to help with the pricing.  Everything has to be changed to Euros, next Monday we will change them back to pounds for Hobbycrafts at the NEC, and the following Monday will re-price them again into Euros for Paris.....Crazy!!!! The ribbons are easy, most of them are dual priced but all the buttons ARRGH!  

I helped Ali 2 years ago and I remember how tired I was, although I do wish I was in Dublin with them, it is a wonderful show.

We have added two NEW colours to our Grosgrain Swiss Dot range.  Classic Black with white dots and White with black dots. Ali tells us they are NEW colours but we believe that she forgot to photograph them.

Hope a good evening

Rachie

A little bit more Bling!

3mm metallic edge satin in a range of 20 scrumptious colours - so if you only want a little bit of Bling then this could be for you.  There are 6 colours with a Silver edge and the balance has gold edges.  You can see all the colours HERE.

We are all packed and ready to leave for Glasgow Hobbycrafts tomorrow - we know the show does not open until Thursday but it takes us such a looooong time to get up there.  Don't forget we are on the south coast (it's much warmer here!), and everywhere seems to be miles away.  We have lots of goodies and ribbons for you to see, as I have said before we do not charge for stroking!!!  Please do pop along to the stand and say "Hi" we would love to put a face to a voice or a name!

I have photographed all the Bling challenge goodies that have arrived to date, so will post them on the blog some time this week - they are wicked!