Colour Challenge No 16 pink, brown and cream .......

Welcome to the 16th colour challenge which is pink, cream and brown - we have a lovely prize of ribbons, lace and flowers from The Ribbon Girl

and a £10 gift voucher from the very generous ladies over at Lili of the Valley (who incidentally will be launching their new range of stamps on 20th February - so don't miss it)

We are delighted to welcome back Jane as our guest designer for February - Jane is on loads of design teams and is always busy so we're extra pleased she could join us this month - here is her card

Feast your eyes on this cake confection from Kath

A gorgeous heart from Mandy

A vintage card from Claudia

A fab picture hook from Gail

A budding chef on a card from Nicole

Fifi goes shopping by Tiets (who is currently suffering tremendous back pain - get well soon Tiets)

A beautiful bunny by Tab - isn't it lovely?

A 'miss you' post card from Lucy

A birthday easel card with a drawer from Mary

A lovely card from Jane

A card from Andrea

Have fun and please, no back linking, new projects only - and it doesn't have to be a card either - we love to see all kinds of projects, crochet, knitted, sewing - especially if you can use a ribbon or a button or a piece of lace on it  - mention Ribbon Girl on your blog and link your card using the InLinkz button below  -  the winner and top three will be announced after this challenge closes on Saturday 3rd March, 9PM UK time

ps  one of the little mice who were looking for a home has still not been claimed so we will send it to one of the entrants to the colour challenge, chosen at random.

Colour Challenge No 15 ...... Blue and Pink

Hi, today we have the start of a new colour challenge here at the Ribbon Girl blog. 

The challenge for January is to create a new project (please no backlinking) using the colours of pink and blue and we have two fabulous prizes for one randomly drawn winner.

The lovely girls at Lili Of The Valley are offering a £10 voucher to spend in the LOTV online store ...

... and we have a gorgeous prize of ribbons, lace, trim, flowers and buttons from the Ribbon Girl

As usual our rules are simple - create a new project using the colours of this challenge, blog about it mentioning our challenge then link us up using the InLinkz button at the bottom of this post. The challenge will run until January 28th at 9PM (UK time) when the winner will be chosen at random and we will also show the projects made by the 'I was top 3 at the Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge' badge winners.    Before we show you the beautiful projects that our Design Team have created  using various ribbons, lace, twine, buttons, charms, felt, flourishes and embellishments from the Ribbon Girl, we want to introduce our Guest Designer Lorraine 

How long have you crafted for?

I have been crafting since as long as I remember, hand sewing clothes for my dolls when I was really little but started cardmaking 5 years ago. I dabbled in cross stitch, pottery, glass painting, mosaics but then a cardmaking craft shop opened here and it was like a calling,,, I had found my niche :-)

What is your favourite type of card to make?

I don't have a favourite type really, I feel that I still have alot to learn and I will have a go at anything but I do think easel cards are extra special :-)

Your favourite colour combination to work with?

My favourite colour is blue but I love all colours and it really depends upon what the card need and what occasion/person it is for.

How often do you craft?

Every day unless I am away on holiday. I just LOVE it :-)

Do you have a tidy desk or a messy desk?

VERY messy, I did try to tidy it once and couldn't find anything so I gave up doing that ! :-)

Do you listen to music when you craft, and if so, what type?

Not really, but I should !! I have an ipod and don't know how to use it !! Will have to sort it out :-)

Do you prefer to buy the latest fashion 'must have' OR craft stash?

Oh craft stash every time ,,, I never even think about clothes now !! I live in jogging bottoms and when I 'dress up' it's usually jeans !

What is your favourite occasion to make a card for?

I think that would have to be New Baby :-) always sooo cute and such a happy occasion.

What type of crafts do you do other than papercrafts?

I mentioned a few earlier ,, but they have all taken a back seat ! I don't really do any other crafts now ,, there are always DT deadlines to meet ! :-)

... and here are Lorraine's gorgeous projects

The rest of the Design Team projects:

Dawny

Jane

Kath

Andrea

Mandy

Claudia

Mary

Nicole

Tab

Tiets

Vicky

Have fun, Mary and Andrea x

Colour Challenge No 14 ...

Hello, welcome to the 14th Colour Challenge here at the Ribbon Girl blog. We're all in full scale Christmas preparation mode so as this is the last colour challenge before Christmas we have 3 prizes for the lucky winner of the challenge. This colour challenge is based on the colours of red, black and cream as chosen by our lovely Ribbon Girl Vicky

Our regular sponsors, the wonderful girls at Lili Of The Valley are giving a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

We have a red and black ribbon kit from Ribbon Girl

We also have a gorgeous quilted mug rug made by our super talented friend and Ribbon Girl Gail

Our rules for the challenge are very simple - create a new project using the colours of red, black and cream, blog about it mentioning this challenge then come back and leave us a direct link to your project using the InLinkz button at the bottom of the post. Please play fair and don't link to older projects, only new projects will be entered into the giveaway for the prizes.

Our Design Team have created a fabulous array of projects and they have been joined by our Guest designer for December, Debbie Dolphin. We were both thrilled when Debbie agreed to join us for this month and we asked her to tell us a little about herself

My Name is Debbie Dolphin and I live in Yorkshire in England.

I have been crafting most of my life but making cards for the last 15 yrs or so. I am married with 2 children. Callum who is 15 and Sophie who is 12.  I love all types of stamping and I especially love Magnolia stamps and painting with Distress inks. I'm such an addict. I am also on the design team for the Magnolia in Sweden and often appear in their magazine Magnolia INK.I feel so honoured to be chosen as Guest DT for the Ribbon Girl

Debbie's wonderful blogs can be found here and here and this is the fabulous project that she created for our challenge

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The winner of our Red Ribbon Giveaway is KAREN

please email us with your details and we'll send off your prize as soon as we can) 

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Here are the rest of the Design Team projects

By Mary

By Claudia

By Jo

 

By Gail

By Jane

By Kath

By Lucy

By Mandy

By Nicole

By Tab

By Tiets

By Vicky

By Andrea

By Dawny

The challenge will run for longer than usual to cover the whole of the Christmas period and will close on January 7th, 2012 at 9PM (UK time)

We would like to wish all of our customers, followers, challenge participants and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year filled with plenty of opportunity for crafting :)

Love Andrea and Mary