Santa says Ho Ho Ho for Crafty Ribbons Inspirational Blog

Morning peeps,

Its a horrible day here with rain and damp weather and Im so unlucky today as Ive got a hospital appointment so Ive got to go out.
Still I wont be away long so I will still have time to craft.

For now, I would like to show you one of my latest makes, featuring one of the new Christmas ribbon releases.  I have only used one of the 2 ribbons available that are in this wonderful kit called The Festive Combos - Santa. I have used the 9mm words ribbons that say Ho Ho Ho and its available in a 1.5mtr length strip or 10mtr length rolls.

The base card is from Craftwork Cards.
The Santa topper is from Kanban.
The red & white dotty paper is from my own stash as is the gold mirror card that I have used as a backer for the Santa topper and the faux clear and red gems.
The white grosgrain ribbon with red Ho Ho Ho printed on is exclusive to us here on our Website.

I used all of the above, with the help of double sided tape, glue and foam pads, to make a 6 x 6 inch
square card and the ribbon being stuck at an angle instead of the usual down or across. I much prefer
to place the ribbons at an odd angle if the layout goes with the effect.

Thats all for now... see you later peeps  ;)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday #30: AG

Santa comes to House-Mouse....

Hiya peeps

I have a lovely (even if I do say so myself) Christmas card to show you today, using a cd that Ive had for a while from Joanna Sheen. Its called The House-Mouse Triple CD Collection and is a wonderful software cd to use.  I only used a couple of layers of decoupage as I didnt want to make the card stick out too much as I will, more than likely, be posting this card. 
As some/all of you are, more than likely aware, I am on the DT for Crafty Ribbons and Im very lucky to receive some of the brand new ribbons/lace/buttons before they are released on the website.... this is how I have been able to bring you the new "Do Not open", this is fully exclusively available only at Crafty Ribbons along with a wonderful array of designs. Click on the link below to see all the new ribbons/lace/buttons and kits that are now available!!!! 

Base card,  white card linen effect in 225gsm weight from Papermill Direct

and also behind the House-Mouse, the card is called Smooth Spring Green at a weight of 240gsm

Backing paper from Teresa Collins "Santa's List" Collection (12x12 inch) Should be available in most Craft Stores/Websites

Ribbon From the Christmas Bus Ribbon range, at Crafty Ribbons, called Do Not Open

CD (from which I printed the decoupage of the House-Mouse) from The House-Mouse Triple CD Collection from Joanna Sheen priced at £29.99


I am entering this card in to the following challenges:



Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper October Challenge

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra, October

Crafting With Dragonflies-AG but MUST be a Card

Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge #157, AG

The Stamping Boutique Challenge,No designer paper challenge

Crafty Ribbons Countdown to Christmas Challenge

Hiya peeps,

Its October now and as we did last year, Crafty Ribbons are having a COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS .....we will be running weekly challenges until Christmas.


Hope you can play along with us, our themes over the next 12 weeks will be Christmas orientated...so a chance to get your Christmas cards started if you have already begun!! and be in with a chance of winning a voucher for CRAFTY RIBBONS store.

We would, all, as members of the DT's and the owners, Ali & Tony, would love to see you join in with at least one or more of our challenges, just make sure that you have your Christmas ribbons ready!!!! ;) 

Click HERE to go to the first challenge on the blog............

DT post for Crafty Ribbons

Hiya peeps

Today, being Thursday, sees the start of the new challenge over at Crafty Ribbons, the theme is Lace, but this means that you must use a piece of lace , not lace card or paper!!

Please dont forget we are having our 12 weeks countdown to CHRISTMAS ...yes 12 weeks not be long!! for the big man in his red suit.

So this challenge is only running for a week 

Our prize this week is a voucher from Crafty Ribbons to the value of £10.

For my card I made a double fold easel card using a lovely shade of purple card and topped with a matching to the shading of the flowers card. 

I cut a large decorative edged circle topper for the decoupaged flower (from Hunkydory)  to sit on

and another shaped die cut for the sentiment. I also die cut some flourishes in the same purple shade of card. The lace I used, is  French Cotton Lace - Clermont Cotton 18mm is the approx width  (other colours and other thicknesses/types of lace are available).

I made a chocolate box bow using the same lace too as with this lace being made using quite thick cotton its too thick to make a normal bow. 

The final embellishment I used was a pale pink mesh butterfly with a faux gem as its body and stuck it using Pinflair glue gel to stick it near the decoupaged lily flowers.

I hope you like my take on this card, the main thing though is please dont forget you only have one week to enter your entry for this challenge..

I am entering this card in to the following challenges:

Wonderful Wednesday 23 at Kraftin Kimmies

Simply Papercraft-theme is always Anything Goes

Petal Lu Challenge, theme is Anything Goes

Halfway Reminder for Crafting Musketeers Challenge #29...........

Hiya peeps

The theme this month for our challenge is Autumnal Colours and I have chosen a beautiful image from Hunkydory of which the picture is in 3 pieces but I just placed them together and its still gorgeous. The corner pieces are from the same toppers page and are the same beautiful colours too. I used a Buttercup coloured ribbon and a white lace, both of which are from Crafty Ribbons.

Our sponsor this month is Oak House Studio where they have some gorgeous goodies for your viewing and purchase (if you wish to).

The challenge can be found by clicking this link:
Halfway post for Challenge #29, Autumnal Colours

I hope you like my photos of the gorgeous card I made..... please make your own card using the gorgeous Autumn colours and get your thinking heads on.

A DT CALL OUT.......

It's a Design Team Call Out time over at Sugar Nellie!!!!!!  

Check the details out and enter through this link......... Sugar Nellie DT Call Out

A "Back To School" Guest Design Team card

Hiya peeps,
A Guest Design Team make for you today, I hope you like it....

OK, the GDT make is for Lacy Sunshine (again lol) and this time I used Eleanor & Pickles Back To School  and is one of a number of new fantastic digi images from Heather, a fabulous artist and the person behind all the digi's from Lacy Sunshine

I used 2 new ribbons from Crafty Ribbons and all the buttons, all relative for going to school, for this make, the bows and both backing pages are from my own stash. The design cut of the actual base card is a new concept to me and it turned out fairly good but I will have to get better at it... practice makes perfect.

I hope you will check out the challenge blog over at Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog, Winds Of Change Challenge (Changing Seasons).   My make, actual, was meant to make out that it was a Changing Season with the start of the new school year and this is Eleanor & Pickles first day of school so it was a BIG change for them and the parents.