Sketchy free for all at Papertake Weekly

This is my DT card for today's Papertake Weekly Sketchy Free for All - I made this card using sketch 87 for my beloved husbands birthday which he would have celebrated on 22nd February.  He died on 17th February, peacefully in hospital, surrounded by his loving family. Roy always liked to see the cards and papercraft projects Andrea and I had made so I decided that it should still be used for the challenge and on my blog.  Ladies don't wait until tomorrow to tell someone how much you love them - do it now - tomorrow may never come

Mary xx

Romance .....

There's a new 'Lovely Lili' challenge over on the Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog today - the theme is 'romance' and this is my card for someone very special to me.  As I often do, I used an image from a LOTV artpad and added 30mm pink two tone wild roses, large pink rosebuds, pink/white hip rosebuds, fuschia pink 20mm open roses, pink velvet lace, 15mm dusky pink satin ribbon and Stardust stickle

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I hope you will have time to ooh and aah at the fabulous work by the design team and we look forward to seeing your projects!

As usual there are lovely prizes@

For our randomly chosen lucky winner we have:

A LOTV stamp of your choice

and a £10 voucher towards a spending spree at The Ribbon Girl

Mary x

A shaped card for Papertake Weekly Challenge ....

This weeks challenge at Papertake Weekly is Anything goes - optional extra is to make a shaped or non square card.  I chose to make a shaped card which is also suitable for a valentine card -  my image is from a LOTV art pad and I added Stardust Stickles. The bows are pink tulip seam binding and Danielle white fine vintage style lace topped with a pink WOC  sweetheart blossom.

My matching flower sprays are WOC 30mm pink/pink wild roses, 20mm fuschia pink open roses, pink sweetheart blossoms, and branches cut from a tiny pearl cluster - all products are available from

and the tiny pink rosebuds are from my stash.

We look forward to seeing you at Papertake Weekly - there is some great inspiration from the team!

Mary x

February card challenge - hearts ...

Today is the start of the Ribbon Girl Card Challenge

For my card I used used image from  LOTV artpad, some 32mm white guipure lace, 7mm orchid satin ribon, a crystal butterfly charm, a stem of clear crystal hearts, two stems of tiny pearl clusters, lilac/white  cherry blossom, 10mm and 20mm lilac open roses, natural hemp twine, Stardust Stickles and a die cut a heart banner

All ribbons, lace, charms and embellishments are from

I hope you will be able to pop over to the challenge blog to feast your eyes on the lovely creations by our talented design team - you won't be disappointed and I hope you will be inspired to enter -

The winner will receive a £10 voucher from our very generous friends at  Lili Of The Valley and  a £10 voucher towards a shopping spree at Ribbon Girl

see you soon, Mary x

less is more .....

It's Less is More challenge 3rd birthday today and the theme for their new challenge is RAINBOW - I am thrilled to be a guest designer today.  I cut the 4 on the sillouhette then wrapped a rainbow of ribbons behind the space (richard of york gave battle in vain) behind.  I added a name and some tiny little 2mm sparkly self adhesive gems - and DIDN't add a single piece f lace or a flower - so difficult not to!

all f the ribbons and gems are from

I hope you can join in with the challenge at Less is More

see you tomorrow over at the Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog for the February card challenge

Mary x

Sketch time at PTW ....

Our challenge this week at Papertake Weekly is a sketch - I've followed sketch 86 but you can use any of the PTW sketches - there is a list at the top of the blog

I used an image from an LOTV artpad and added tiny 2mm clear crystal gems as cherries on the little cakes.  I used deep purple floribunda roses which have been made from recycled cotton pulp, WOC 10 and 20mm lilac open roses, WOC white/lilac cherry blossom and a Kort & Godt lilac rolled rose .

The ribbon is 38mm bright purple organza and mauve rose seam binding.  The dinky little square frame with the rose in the centre is one of our new bronze vintage style frames which has been distressed with a white paint dabber - I added more of the tiny little clear crystals to each corner and tied it on withh some natural hemp twine.

   

I hope you will pop over to PTW to check out the inspiration from my teamies - well worth a visit - and we look forward to seeing your cards during the  week.

see you soon, Mary x

Perfectly pink .....

I like nothing better than pink and girly so I made this set consisting of a baby bootee, a box to put it in and a matching card as my project for the first challenge of 2014 over at The Ribbon Girl Challenge - ladies please pop over to see the amazing work by the mega talened international design team - amazing.  

RIBBON GIRL CHALLENGE BLOG

For my project  used 

 Darjeeling Pink Blossom Flowers, WOC open roses and hip rosebuds, Kort & Godt Chrysanths and Pink Rolled Rose, Stardust Stickles, pink tiny ric rac, ivory flat back pearls, White and Dusky Pink satin ribbon, pink flatback gems, Olivia White and Katherine Ivory fine vintage style lace all from

see you soon

Mary x

Tea anyone? .....

Andrea and I had great fun making teapots - mine was all in pinks and hers is in shades of blue.  We cut the card on the silhouette cameo (Andrea's new toy for Christmas!) and then cut designer paper to suit.  All edges were inked.  When all the glue was dry I had a great time decorating my teapot with 'Olivia' lace, Pink Darjeeling Pink Blossom flowers, WOC pink sweetheart blossoms, 7mm dusky pink satin ribbon and ivory flat back pearl trim - all from The Ribbon Girl

This photo shows the teapot with the lid removed - it would make a stunning gift box or favour for a wedding or special occasion dinner and it can be decorated in as many ways as you would decorate a card - I can see this becoming a favourite thing to make!

see you soon, Mary x

A gift box by Jack ...and cards by Jessica...

Jessica sent the following two cards to be entered into the Kids Christmas Craft Challenge

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I'm entering this project into the Ribbon Girl Kids's Christmas Craft Challenge on behalf of my great nephew Jack aged 10  who hasn't got a blog of his own.  He made this pillow box to give to his Mam for Christmas  - never more happy than when he is kicking a football for his medal winning team, Jack was chuffed to bits with his finished gift box when he'd filled it with his secret gift.

  

see you all soon, Mary x

Last Christmas ....

This week's challenge at Papertake Weekly is 'Last Christmas card of the year ' and I used paper and an art pad image from LOTV.

I added 'Daphne' 25mm white fine vintage style lace and red satin ribbon - the lace bow was tied with a red/white sweetheart blossom flower and some silver twine.  My flower arrangement contains red cosmos flowers and white beaded stamens - the frond leaves were punched with a Martha Stewart punch - sentiment was computer generated and printed onto Safmat.

     

Lace, flowers, ribbon, twine and stickles all from The Ribbon Girl online store

Looking forward to seeing your Christmas Cards at Papertake Weekly!

Mary

Kids Christmas Craft Challenge

click here to go to the Ribbon Girl Kids Christmas Craft Challenge

'Just for kids aged 16 and under'

We know lots of you like to make cards or do various other crafts when your Mums, Aunties, Grandmas, Nannas, carers and big sisters and so on are all making cards or colouring in so we thought it would be nice to have a special challenge JUST FOR KIDS!   The challenge will run until 9pm (UK time) on Saturday 28th December.

The winners will be announced on New Years Eve - we're sure you will have some time to fill in before Christmas and maybe some spare time between Christmas and New Year - you might even be hoping to get some new craft things in your stocking and this is a great opportunity to put them to good use.

There will be 3 prizes of crafty goodies and the challenge will be judged by 3 UK crafters:

Dawn Phillips freelance designer, craft tutor and TV presenter for Lili of the Valley

 Happy Birthday Dawny P - enjoy your day!!

  Kath Stewart  well known Freelance Craft Designer, Craft Tutor, and Demonstrator

Andrea Gourley - Craft Designer and Teacher 

The winners will have their project displayed here on our blog, on The Ribbon Girl Facebook Page and on the front page of The Ribbon Girl online store website on 1st January 2014

Good luck everyone and we're really looking forward to seeing all of your fabulous projects

so pop over to the Ribbon Girl blog

g e t   c r a f t i n g  !!

Christmas Creatures at Papertake Weekly .....

Today's challenge at Papertake Weekly is 'Christmas Creatures' and you can see there are two little rabbits sitting in this christmas stocking!  I made the pillow box using my new punch board and used LOTV Classic Christmas paper and the image from their Christmas art pad 

I added 20mm 'Charlotte' lace, 15mm red satin ribbon, flower shaped acrylic button tied with natural button twine.  Those tiny little holly leaves were punched from the dark green paper in the LOTV paper pack with a 'palm -punch' and the flowers are red/white sweetheart blossoms - I added plenty of Stardust Stickles to make everything sparkle!  

Lace, flowers, buttons, twine, stickles are all from The Ribbon Girl online store

I hope you will fbe able to pop over to see the fabulous projects made by my teamies at Papertake Weekly - we'd love to see your paper craft projects and you could win a super prize!

Mary x

Small pillow gift box ..

A dinky little pink pillow gift box made with a small piece of patterned paper, using my new punch board .  I added WOC cosmos, baby pink sweetheart blossoms, a mulberry rose, Kort & Godt purple rolled rose and RG white beaded twirl.  The lace is 13mm white droplet guipure and the leaves have been punched with my Martha Stewart punch.

Flowers and lace from The Ribbon Girl

Only one more go-to-bed before Andre Rieu concert on Tuesday night - yay!!

Less is more ..... and I find it so difficult ....

only 7 more days until the Andre Rieu concert - can't wait !!

The challenge over at Papertake Weekly is 'less is more' which I find very difficult!  My card features Rudolph (from Hero Arts) stamped onto craft paper with the dots coloured in with a white pen.  The nose is a pearl coloured with red Copics.  Sentiment is computer generated onto Safmat and thebow is 25mm small check red gingham.  The background is embossed with a 6 x 6 snowflake folder.

I hope you will find time to join us at PTW and if you pop over you can see loads of inspiration from the design team!  There is a great prize to win too

Pearl and ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl online store

see you soon

Mary xx

Christmas anything goes at The Ribbon Girl blog ......

It's the first day of December and it's only 10 days until we go to see Andre Rieu at Newcastle Arena!! We've had the tickets for ages and are really looking forward to the performance!

There is a mega Christmas/Winter 'anything goes' challenge over at The Ribbon Girl Blog which will run for the next couple of weeks. 

I made a Winter/Christmas Wedding Cake -  which is actually three gift boxes - I made them up from scratch using white card and some pretty paper.  To embellish my 'cake' I added  'Deborah' lace, 7mm cream satin, cream tiny pom pom, lots of 3mm double sided sticky tape, Wild Orchid 20mm cream roses, 30mm ivory roses, ivory cherry blossoms, white lily flowers, Ribbon Girl tiny red berries, and Kort & Godt ivory beaded berries all from The Ribbon Girl

The cake dividers are empty ribbon bobbins covered in paper and enhanced with mulberry and beaded flowers

here are the three gift boxes - I had a great time making this project - and hope it inspires some of you to give it a go - you could make a little replica 'cake' for friends and family who are getting married

 There will be a £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl, a £10 voucher for Lili of the Valley, a kit of red ribbons and a snowflake stick pin - so what are you waiting for - you will find masses of inspiration from the entire Ribbon Girl Design Team

 

  

see you soon, Mary x