What a busy weekend we had, fantastic chance to catch up on all those jobs that never seem to get done.

Ever since we blew up our mail server up a few weeks back, we have been experiencing problems.  Some of our wonderful followers have not been receiving emails, they have been bouncing back to us - telling us the email no longer existed.  So over the weekend our IT guys have been moving all of our followers and customers details onto a new system.  It is really quiet exsiting for us, although I am having to learn new software which I hate.

Anyway, did you see our NEW DVD? There are some super projects on there 12 in total, and yes the Tulips on the front cover are made from ribbon!!  We had planned to only shoot 11 projects, but I wore my button necklaces in all the videos (yes you do get to see me, I even do an intro on the DVD) that we decided to show you how to make the necklace.  Do you want to watch it?  If so click the little triangle in the centre of the screen.

What do you think? It has a long way to go to catch up with our Ribbon Carnation video, that has had over 344,000  views on YouTube. Rock on Tommy!! Thanks everyone.

All 12 videos can be downloaded straight from our site HERE, so you do not have to wait for Mr Postie and you can just download the ones that are your "thing". As you can imagine we get asked lots of question on "How to" with ribbon especially at the exhibitions, so this is how the DVD came about.

"How do you tie a bow" is the most asked question - simple if you know, if not then this clip is for you! Bows are here.

Thanks to everyone that left super comments on the blog and also Facebook, it was great to read them all.  So who has won the £25 Friday FREEBIE (Please check Facebook if you liked our page to see if you won there)

Sam did the honours for me today, with that cheeky smile of his!! He picked number..................

Number 45 = Julie Swann
What a fab bunch of ribbons and a perfect way to celebrate spring, Easter and my 50th birthday which was this weekend.  Hope you all have a fab Easter break. xx

Somebody was looking down on you this weekend Julie, you have £25 to spend on our website, any ideas what you will buy?  Please send me an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com to claim your voucher.

What with the email problem and launching the DVD I am rather behind on sharing all the wonderful creations from the challenge.  So sorry for the delay this is a little taster to jog your memories...

Andrea made this delightful Tattie teddy card - adorable Andrea thank you.

More creations tomorrow, I promise.

.......our Top secret project is revealed.

Does excatly what it says on the box.  1hour 36mins of pure ribbon fun!

You can find all the details here

Enjoy

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday  "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

I waited all day yesterday to try and photograph this project, it stopped raining about 6, but was still overcast and damp.  How the photos managed to come out I have no idea - thanks Canon!

I saw a necklace like this in Bath the other weekend and thought......Ooooh I can make something similar.

I used 6 glass style beads threaded onto three different coloured 15mm sheer ribbons here.  I then threaded all three ribbons through the fancy jewelled thingies (you can see my jewellery terminology is rather poor) and finished off with a clasp.  I would say it took me less than 15mins to make, my hardest decision was what colour ribbons to use!

I received this video yesterday......the stripes...........the black and white ones..............on the chefs hats...............IS OURS!!!  Our very own deckchair stripe ribbon.

Well that is supper sorted for tonight..............Oh Tony I will have to go and have a look.

Have a great day.

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday  "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

It is wonderful when you have a willing model, OK I did mention a bag of sweeties and this weeks cbeebies magazine! But that would not be a bribe you know, just payment for all the hard work she did.

Sydney is wearing one of my new creations - A Ribbon Carnation Hairband.

These little ribbon beauties are very easy to make (I promise) and you just need 4mtrs of ribbon. Look I can even SHOW you how easy they are - we have made a tutorial video for you. Please be gentle with us, this is the first video we have made, as of Monday morning I didn't even know how to turn on the video side of my camera!!  The sun decided to shine part way through shooting and I am sure you will spot a few more errors, I will never be a Stephen Spielberg BUT you will learn how easy these ribbon carnations are to make by watching.

 The 25mm wired edge ribbon I used is one of our bargain rolls so will cost just 40p per Carnation and you can find it HERE

Thanks Syd for being such a special model - especially as you were in so much pain..........

......ouch!!

I have one of those days today.....I am even wearing my lucky shoes......

.....not sure they go with my outfit....but they make me smile......wish me luck and I might tell you more tomorrow.....today is the next stage you see!