Challenge #20 | Easel Card

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is an easel card. I learned how to make easel cards from my British buds Fabrizio and Vince a while ago and I love making easel cards! Thank you for looking!

For this card you need:

Crafty Ribbons in a variety of colors/widths

Digital images from AlteredPages.com

Bazzill Card Stock

foam tape, double stick adhesive

The prize this week:

Easel Card

This challenge will run from 8.30am 24th May until 6pm 6th June......

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Challenge #19 | Flowers

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is flowers. I uses some lovely vintage images to create this Mother's Day card and bookmark which I embellishes with a ribbon flower and tassel made from Crafty Ribbons . Thank you for looking!

For this bag you need:

Crafty Ribbons in a variety of colors/widths

Digital images from AlteredPages.com

Glitz Papers and accessories

foam tape, double stick adhesive, and foil doily

The prize this week:

Flowers

This challenge will run from 8.30am 10th May until 6pm 24th May ......

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Challenge #18 | Pink, Orange & Yellow

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is a color challenge--Pink, Orange & Yellow. I took this opportunity to use some of the yummy new ribbons that Ali and Tony sent us and do a little ribbon weaving to create a "fabric" to make into a amulet bag. The beaded fringe is also created with Crafty Ribbons beads! I love how it turned out! Great for tucking away little treasures and meditations...perfect for a mini album to journal secrets in--or just to keep up with your list of things to do! Thank you for looking!

For this bag you need:

Crafty Ribbons in a variety of colors/widths

Crafty Ribbons beads

Light Fusible interfacing

double stick tape to hold ribbons in place while weaving

sewing machine or needle and thread

glue to hold the beads into place

The prize this week:

Pink, Orange & Yellow

This challenge will run from 8.30am 26th Apr until 6pm 9th May ......

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Challenge #17 | Things with Wings

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is all about things with wings! How Springy! When I came home this evening, my husband said come with me I wamt to show you something. We went around the side of our house where it's lined with trees and wild flowers and the area was covered with butterflies--hundreds of them! It was awesome! I love this time of the year and really enjoy taking time to witness natures little gifts.

For this card you need:

Crafty Ribbons satin 1" wide & 3/8" stitched grosgrain

Miracle Tape to adhere the stem and leaves
and to attached the gathered satin ribbon to a circle base

Basic Grey cardstock

German Glass Glitter in Gold

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Circle Punches

Butterfly pre-made embellishment

The prize this week:

Things with Wings

This challenge will run from 8.30am 12th Apr until 6pm 25th Apr ......

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Challenge #16| Black, White and one color

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This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is a great opportunity to showcase some beautiful Crafty Ribbons ribbon while playing with my new favorite digital Collage images from Altered Pages. I hope you enjoy my fun Black/White and Orange tag!!

 

for this tag you will need:

Crafty Ribbons Black and Silver Satin Ribbon

Altered Pages White Collage Sheet AP-1714

Altered Pages Beautiful Butterflies Collage Sheet AP 1065

Coredinations White Wash Card stock

Bazzill Basics Black Card stock

Prima Eiffel Tower Bling

Black & White with one other colour

(You can use skin and hair tones but only the other three main colours)

This challenge will run from 8.30am 29th Mar until 6pm 11th Apr .....

Thank you for looking!

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #15 | BIRTHDAY!!

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Inspired by a ribbon/button bracelet that I found while patrolling flickr, I knew that for this Birthday themed challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog I wanted to make a Birthday Flower Bracelet out of ribbons and felt. The flowers are built on a punched circle base and then layered with embroidery trimmed felt to form the centers. They are then attached with hot glue to the base --a grosgrain polka dotted ribbon and another felt circle is glued to the back of each flower. The bracelet can be tied on your wrist...I would also make for a cute headband. Thank you for looking!

Challenge #15 | Birthday

 

This challenge will run from 8.30am 15th March until 6pm 30th March

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #13 | Paws for Thought

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It's time now for a new Crafty Ribbons Challenge and this one is totally fun! When I saw the ribbons from the latest design team shipment I knew exactly what I wanted to do! I needed to make a princess puppy hair bow. 

My daughter LOVES dogs. Christmas before last she asked Santa for a leash. When I asked her "why a leash?," she commented "for my dog of course!" We had a cat, a turtle and a frog--no dog. Santa in his infinite wisdom brought Fancy Pants a "dog". Emma Dog was a stuffed Build-A-Bear Yorkie and she had a blingy pink leash and a princess outfit.  Fancy Pants like-wise has several shirts with the princess theme and puppy themes. A princess puppy hair bow is almost a necessity!

I used these fun new puppy paw ribbons along with the princess crown ribbon and the "princess" ribbon. All ribbons are grosgrain ribbons. The finished bow is attached with hot glue to a clip so that it can be worn in the hair easily! Thank you for looking! 

Challenge #12 | Paws for Thought [animal prints and paws]

The prize offered this week from Crafty Ribbons Challenge is from our very own Crafty Ribbons! You get to win  some of these very sweet paw print ribbons!!

This challenge will run from 8.30am 16th Feb until 6pm 29th Feb

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #12 |One for the Men/Boys

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It's time now for a new Crafty Ribbons Challenge and this makes us think! 

Challenge #12 | One for the Men/Boys

For this card I used this yummy sheer ribbon combine with Basic Grey papers from the wisteria collection and solids collection. I am always needing a thank you card for my guy friends who help out with projects with my son for scouting and 4H and these beautiful manly ribbons make creating these cards super easy. A square knot is used to create my man-bow--or "mow" as my son termed it! Thank you for looking!

The prize offered this week from Crafty Ribbons Challenge is from Mulberry Crafts! Oh yum! I wish I could win this!!!

This challenge will run from 8.30am 2nd Feb until 6pm 15th Feb

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A Winner & Crafty Ribbons Challenge #11 | Love is Black & Red

Remember two weeks ago when we had the blog hop for New Beginnings for the new year at Crafty Ribbons?!? Well it's time to reveal who won!! I am so pleased to announce the winner ...

Diane of Crazy Craft Shed

congrats Diane! Email me at leslierahye@nctv.com and I will send you your ribbon!!! 

It's time now for a new Crafty Ribbons Challenge and this one is so much fun! 

Challenge #11 | Love is Red & Black

For this challenge I made one of these fun ribbon bracelets that I've been admiring all over Pinterest. You use a hair band and tie strips of ribbon onto the band--the band stretches out a bit so it is perfect for any size wrist!  I used fun Valentine grosgrains, wider red and black grosgrains, satins and the silver metallic edged black ribbon! I LOVE it! I hope you do too...My model said it was awesome and suggested that it could also be a hair accessory! 

The prize offered this week from Crafty Ribbons Challenge is this yummy Bev's Ribbon Bag! You can't go wrong with Crafty Ribbons...they're so pretty and versatile!

This challenge will run from 8.30am 19th Jan until 6pm 1st Feb

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Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop & Challenge #10 | New Beginnings!!!

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Wow, can you believe Christmas is over and we are into January which means it’s time for the sales and Crafty Ribbons started their mega sale on the 3rd January where there are lots of fabulous ribbons at fantastic prices so to celebrate we’re having a blog hop with lots of prizes available. We also have a new challenge this time, Gina is hosting.....

New Beginnings 
[new baby, new job, new home...new life]

We'll draw a random winner for both the blog hop and challenge and we’ll have the top 3 as usual. You can get all the details and lots more ideas from the Design Team over at the main site. I am sharing with you today a Welcome Little One card for the birth of a baby girl. 

I chose this darling girl bear grosgrain with the pink bows and flowers to accent my hybrid card. The card features new papers from AJs Digi Shoppe. I created a layout with small squares of each digital paper on screen and then matted it with a white square and a Pink Rectangle to give the impression of paper piecing. I then also created a separate block with my sentiment that once printed could be attached with foam squares to give the layered effect. 

I finished my card by attaching the ribbon straight across the front with glue. I then created a simple two loop bow being sure to twist the printed grosgrain so that the image stayed on top. I attached the bow with Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue and adhered the entire card front to the card base. Thank you for looking!

for complete rules on how to enter the Crafty Ribbons Challenge, check the blog. 

This challenge prize is a Bev's Ribbon Bag! [contents may vary]. 

Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop

Along with this challenge, we are having a Blog Hop. You can get the full list of blogs over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. At each stop there'll be a word to collect and a candy draw. I've got these gorgeous ribbons to give away--♥♥♥these!

I'm giving away the Tartan Ribbon Pack!!

To be in with a chance of winning this you just need to leave a comment at the end of this post saying your joining us on the blog hop... Each stop will have a word which you should collect to make a phrase.

You should have arrived here from Bonnie's Blog Pink BonBons ..... My word is TO. At the end of the blog hop you should have 12 words, work out the phrase and leave it in the comments back at Crafty Ribbons Challenge. The blog hop will run until 6pm on 18th January 2012 and the winner and the winners of each of the Design Teams Candy will be announced with the start of the New Challenge on the 19th January 2012.

Your next stop is Gina's Krafty Place. If you lose your way you can go back to Crafty Ribbons Challenge to get the full list. Good luck everyone. The winner of the Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop Phrase contest will receive this yummy prize--good towards the purchase of Crafty Ribbons of YOUR CHOICE!!!

Sale

Crafty Ribbons Sale runs all of January!! Take advantage to these great deals!!!

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Challenge #9 | Crafty Ribbons Sketch

WOW! Can you believe it's the L A S T challenge for 2011 for Crafty Ribbons Challenge?!? What a quick year we've had! For this challenge, our hostesses chose a sketch. This sketch just screamed ornament to me with these festive Crafty Ribbons ribbons!! I chose the printed grosgrains for the bows and the gathered ribbon element and the wired printed snowman ribbon for my focus square in the front! I really love how my ornament turned out. Thank you for looking!

This challenge runs from 22 December 2011--5January 2012

The sketch

The prize this week : 

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my projects! If you would like to join our challenge, hop on over to the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog to check out the details.

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #8 | Christmas, Traditional Colors

It's time again for a Crafty Ribbons Challenge. For this challenge we are doing Christmas, Traditional Colors! You can use red, green, cream and white in your creation to participate.

At Crafty Ribbons they have some fun printed wired ribbons that make yummy bows for ornaments and tags. For this challenge I made a bow and hanger for a glittered pine cone that will be an ornament on my tree this year. 

I also made another fun Christmas Gift Tag. I used some spotty digital paper from my friend and digital art designer Amanda Marks--you can get the paper pack here. I added the digi paper to a large countertop sample and then used the velvet embossed Happy Christmas ribbon to look like ribbon on a package and the glittered snowman wired ribbon to make a large bow. The back has a to/from card and can be used for a gift tag and then a hanger can be added to make it an ornament for your tree. Love the versatility of that!

Thank you for looking!! 

CHRISTMAS, TRADITIONAL COLOURS 

This challenge will run from 8.30am 8th Dec until 6pm 21st Dec.....

This challenge is sponsored by Mulberry Crafts UK

  

 Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my projects! If you would like to join our challenge, hop on over to the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog.

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Crafty Ribbons #6 | Anything but a card

It's time again for a Crafty Ribbons Challenge. For this challenge we are doing ANYTHING BUT A CARD and I thought it would be the PERFECT time to play with the Crafty Ribbons buttons boxes. At Crafty Ribbons the yummy buttons come with a flat white matchbox-style sliding box. This box however is so much more fun. It measures 4"×2"×1½". 

Besides being a great box for my buttons, I thought it would also make a fun "gift" box. I stacked 3 of these boxes together and covered with my favorite Bazzill Kraft Card Stock. I chose the fun Advent colors for my ribbons with the beautiful purple embossed velvet and the fun pink imprinted grosgrain. I also love the sheer silver wired ribbon and thought it would provide for a shiny accent to my big puffy bow. I decorated the "gift box" to look like a wrapped package, extending the Kraft card stock to the "drawers" of my box and to the lining of the "drawers." For a final touch I added a punched tag with a piece of 1/8" grosgrain. This would be perfect for a series of presents that go together--jewelry perhaps, beautiful hair accessories, doll items...The sky is the limit!

  

With the box that my buttons came with, I decided to cover the box with a piece of denim, edge the edges of the box with some gingham ribbon so that the denim wouldn't fray and then add ribbon accents to the "pull" and sides of the box. I added Crafty Ribbons buttons to further embellish my little button box! I love the primary colors in this set of buttons and wanted the box to reflect what would be contained inside!

 Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my projects! If you would like to join our challenge, hop on over to the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog. This weeks challenge is:

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

This challenge will run from 8.30am 10th Nov until 6pm 23th Nov 2011

  

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #5 | B I N G O

It's time again for the Crafty Ribbons Challenge!!  This week the Challenge Blog is having a challenge with a twist--it's new to me but I see that several companies are doing this. It's called BINGO. Go to the challenge blog and select the categories you are going to use to create your card! I chose 3 down--handmade embellies, ribbon and gems [aka BLING]. I also chose to use flowers, one other square on our bingo card--since we're teaming up with Mulberry Flowers as a sponsor! I hope you like my card!

The challenge this week is:

BINGO

For my handmade embellies, I made deco squares with bling and rub-ons and I made Ribbon Corners using yummy grosgrain Crafty Ribbons ribbon! I love these non-traditional colors of winter. 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you like my project! All the details for joining the challenge are on the Crafty Ribbons Challenge blog. To see other awesome projects from the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Team hop over to the blogs below.

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Crafty RIbbons Challenge #4 | Ribbons & Lace

It's time again for the Crafty Ribbons Challenge!!  This week the Challenge Blog teamed up with Saturated Canary , digital stamp designer, to create some super cute projects!  Crafty Ribbons ribbons are perfect for these cute digital images! I loved working with my Rag Doll Witch.

The challenge this week is:

Ribbons & Lace

For this card I used a lace remnant from a previous sewing project and of course some yummy polka dotted ribbons from Crafty Ribbons--in both satin and organza--and then a super thin green grosgrain ribbon! I colored my Rag Doll Witch digi with watercolor pencils and blending pens, accenting the shoes, eyes and dress buttons with Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer

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Crafty Ribbons Challenge #3 |BOO-tiful Halloween, Pretty Spooky!

Welcome to the 3rd Crafty Ribbons Challenge! I am this challenge's hostess and the theme is

BOO-tiful Halloween, Pretty Spooky!! 

This challenge will run from 29th Sept 8.30am until 6pm 12th Oct.

We are making pretty and pretty spooky projects loaded with RIBBON! You will be amazed and inspired by all of the Design Teams' boo-tiful creations! I hope you enjoy mine!

When I was gearing up for this week's challenge, I just knew I wanted to use a bunch of Crafty Ribbon's Halloween ribbons to make a hairbow inspired by "the homecoming bow" on the Sweetpeas and Kisses blog. For this pony tail hair bow I attached 2 4-loop tails-down bows to a bundle of tails and a 2-loop tails-down bow. I completed the ribbon by adding some Crafty Ribbons buttons layered on top. The directions to folding the tails-down bows are at Sweetpeas and Kisses website...The ribbon of course is at non-other than Crafty Ribbons website!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you like my project! To see other awesome projects from the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Team hop over to the blogs below.
This weeks prize is pretty spooky!!

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Challenge #2 | Anything Goes!

This article can be found HERE

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Festive Friday #17 | New Toys

Happy Friday everyone!! It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year.

If you reached this stop from Becky's blog BC Designs , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog

I titled this week's challenge New Toys as on my card I used two of my new toys to complete the project. If you follow my blog you know I recently added to my Design Team accomplishments; I've become a Design Team Member for both the Sakura Hobby Crafts Blog and the Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog! I'm very excited and honored to be on all 4 design teams. My other two design teams are digital design teams and so my treasure from Digital Delights by Louby Loo and from AJs Digi Shoppe come to my email! When I receive the new releases, my family can attest, I squeal out loud as I'm always so excited to start using the new images and papers.
Well...waiting on snail mail to get your new toys is agony BUT...what fun toys I got this last week!!! Ali and Tony at Crafty Ribbons in the UK sent me a wonderful parcel full of yummy holiday ribbons of all varieties...for this card I chose this cool Twill Merry Christmas printed ribbon...it is the PERFECT size to fit across the card! I have TONS of ribbons to play with and this was my very first small project with my 1st new toy!! We are pampered with this design team! I love all the ribbons and can't wait to share many more projects with them!!!

Later that same week I received a smallish box from California--from Sakura Hobby Crafts! Inside was a huge bottle of the 3D Crystal Lacquer that you already know I love and that brings the shine to the eyes of my digital and traditional stamped cards! I also used the 3D Crystal lacquer as an adhesive for my prisma glitter for the glistening snow. Also inside was a surprise that I will reveal next week AND some 3D Crystal Color Lacquer which was perfect for coloring the bows on my House Mouse Stamp! I love it because it is completely transparent and just colored! I love this product and how easy it is to use the little tubes that it comes it! They are perfect for pinpoint application and the tube, while it seems not much bigger than say a BIC Mark-it, it has an ENORMOUS amount of product in it that will no doubt last me quite a while! Super fun! The folks at Sakura and our DT Leader Terri certainly spoil us too!

Thank you to all the folks responsible for all of my Design Teams, it is an honor and a pleasure working for each of you and with my teammates!! I couldn't be more thrilled!! I love what I get to do for you and I hope it shows. 

Thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my card! Now back to our regularly scheduled hop! The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is below!

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