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Holiday Ribbons: Halloween Edition

With the holidays quickly approaching, ribbons are becoming more and more important. So, let’s start this season off with an explosion of black, white and orange!

Halloween is a fun and festive tradition in many homes and businesses. With costumes of fairies and cartoon characters everywhere, you might be in need of prizes for the best one. Or what if you’re celebrating this holiday by throwing a party? Use these festive ribbons for decorating your home or party venue. And don’t forget the treats! What would Halloween be without candy?

Ribbon rolls can be customized to meet all your holiday needs. From choosing the perfect color to forming the best phrase, all our ribbon rolls can be personalized. Create holiday wreaths or simply drape these ribbons along banisters, stairs or walls for your holiday decorations.

Use ribbon rolls to tie up goody bags. From cookies to candy, your treats are sure do to the trick especially when personalized with your own festive ribbon.

And, no Halloween party is complete without a few prizes.

Use classic ribbons or rosette ribbons to create your own, one-of-a-kind awards! Use titles such as Best Costume, Most Creative or Scariest Costume. No matter your choice for awards, these personalized ribbons will be perfect for each and every winner.

While orange and black ribbons are the typical colors for Halloween, we have a giant color selection to choose from. Choices include: Torrid Orange, Poppy, Tangerine, Black, White, Maize, Red and Scarlet. Or, go with colors a little less traditional: Regal Purple, Pastel Green or Smoke Blue.

Hand out badge ribbons for party games, given as a bookmark to students, or given as a prize for a costume contest. Use them as recognition of that special costume or person during a meeting or at a school event. These also make great keepsakes for your guests to take home with them.

Dress up your Halloween party with Halloween designs on personalized ribbons and have a Happy Halloween!

Showing Support with Awareness Ribbons

Awareness ribbons are used year round, but some of the most prominent reasons for wearing these ribbons happen in October.

Throughout the year, awareness ribbons are used to celebrate and honor many occasions and holidays. Each ribbon, whether a badge ribbon, a ribbon roll or a rosette ribbon, can stand for different things depending on the color used.

Many support groups have adopted ribbons as symbols of support or awareness. Awareness ribbons date back to 1917 when the yellow awareness ribbon showed up to support US military while serving abroad. Since then, ribbon colors associate with a variety of causes and symbolize various concerns depending on the color and pattern.

Schools will be acknowledging Red Ribbon Week during the last week of October. Others are observing energy awareness, literacy awareness and cultural diversity awareness. But the most followed is breast cancer awareness.

Pink is the chosen color for breast cancer awareness. This color was first used in 1991 when the Susan G. Komen Foundation handed out pink ribbons to participants in its New York City race for breast cancer survivors. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month officially adopted pink as its color in 1992.

The color pink is often considered as feminine. It tends to stand for caring for other people, being beautiful, being good, and being cooperative. The pink ribbon represents hope for the future and the charitable goodness of people and businesses who publicly support the breast cancer movement.

Make Your Own Awareness Ribbon

Begin your awareness ribbon by cutting a section of a ribbon roll that includes your entire text. Or, you can choose to have a blank ribbon. Cut your ends to your liking.

Next, form a small loop in the ribbon. Make sure to leave each end hanging down so that any text shows at the ends without the center crossover covering it. Secure this together with either a small piece of tape or a dab of glue.

The final step is to choose a fastener for your awareness ribbon. (View the full tutorial.)

Personalizing Corporate Gifting

Use custom ribbons in your corporate gifting this year and make your brand stand out!

According to many surveys, most often corporate gifting includes major clients, employees and prospective clients. A company’s brand is what they are, what they want to be, and what they aim to become as a whole. And when gift giving, branding is extremely important for all corporations.

Reasons for gift giving range from thanking customers or consumers for their business to recognizing an employee for outstanding work. But, the basic reason seems to always be the same. It is to sustain relationships and deepen the personal connection between giver and recipient.

For many companies, corporate gifting is a fundamental detail within their marketing strategies. But remember, the packaging is just as important as choosing the right gift for your associates. Adding a fun personalized ribbon to each gift.

Typically, when thinking about corporate gifting, ribbon rolls come to mind. These personalized ribbons are perfect to get a simple message imprinted on them. Wrapping your gifts with a fun and creative ribbon is a great way to get your message and brand out.

But, don’t forget about all of the other wonderful ribbon options we offer! Customize imprinted ribbons and full color ribbons to fit all your needs. Choose from a fun and festive full color design or a simple imprinted message to those who will be receiving your corporate gifts.

Looking for that perfect gift?

Going for a traditional personalized gift like a desk wedge or name plate is great way to go. But, don’t get caught up in a boring streak! Customize name plates to fit anyone’s personality. From favorite quotes to a fancy font for a name, choose from a large variety of these wonderful and flexible personal identification tools. Quotes and simple sayings also look amazing on acrylic name plates and executive name plates.

Corporate gifting is a fun and wonderful way to show appreciation. These ribbon products will help you to maximize your investment. Have you ever received a corporate gift that you couldn’t live without? We’d love to hear from you!

Custom Ribbon Definitions: Part 1

Defining our business helps our customers to fully understand what we do.

While our FAQ pages are full of your questions, we thought we’d get down to the nitty-gritty for you. Here are some definitions of how our business runs. From what personalized ribbons actually are to all the fun and fabulous details of ordering, we want to make this process as easy as possible.

So, what are personalized or custom ribbons?

All personalized ribbons can be customized with logos, text and other designs. These are anything from ribbon rolls that are used to wrap presents or for decorations during a party to ribbons that are attached to a name tag or worn as a type of identifier. They include badge ribbons, classic ribbons, ribbon rolls and rosette ribbons.

Now let’s get some of the more technical definitions out of the way.

Need By Date

We often reference a need by date on our website when a customer is placing an order. This phrase might be confusing. A need by date is the exact date that a customer needs to have the product in hand. While we do our best to match everyone’s need by date, this date is not a guarantee.

Ribbon Titles
We often refer to ribbon titles for our pre-imprinted ribbons. A title is the word(s) that is imprinted on a ribbon. They are available as stock items on our website. Titles are words such as sponsor, president, staff, visitor or member. Each ribbon type we offer comes with varying available titles that can be found on the order pages. These ribbons are ready to ship the same day you place your order.

Custom Text
Most ribbons are also available with custom text. This means that instead of using pre-imprinted titles, you can provide your own text. This text can range from titles that you don’t see on the list to names or other messages. You can choose your own font and color to match your ribbon choice. Each of these ribbons can also be designed with or without a logo.

Die (not dye*)
A die is required for all imprinting on ribbons. These dies are engraved stamps for impressing a design or text onto a ribbon. (*Dye refers to the process of using a color to stain fabric or other material such as hair.) Using foils and a heat transfer process, your design or text is stamped directly onto a ribbon with a polymer or metal die. A polymer die is a less expensive way of imprinting simple designs. However, a metal die will always create a better imprint due to its ability to transfer heat more effectively.

Do you have any questions regarding these definitions?

There will be further articles with more definitions, but help us by letting us know what you need. How about anything of which you’re unsure? Please let us know what else you need help with as we’re here for all of your questions!

State and County Fair Ribbons

From pies and other baked goods to award wining hogs and horses, no state or county fair is complete without great fair ribbons!

It’s that time of year again when the harvest is starting and the state and county fairs are showing off their wares. From shows and games to baked goods and larger-than-life vegetables, everyone deserves some sort of ribbon. Here are few suggestions if you don’t already have fair ribbons to call your own.

Classic Ribbons

These wonderful, flat ribbons are just perfect for that pie eating contest! Or they can be given for prize winning livestock, animal trick shows or other baked goods that are out of this world. Choose from a variety of titles and award positions, or create your own. With fun, vibrant colors, these ribbons are sure to please even the pickiest of winners.

Badge Ribbons

While these ribbons are simple, when customized to meet your needs, they can provide the recognition someone yearns for. Badge ribbons also provide instant recognition to those who are running the show. With stock and custom names and titles available, this simple solution is one of the best.

Rosette Ribbons

This classic ribbon is always a great standby for the fair! With the beautiful tops and long streamers, everyone covets one of these beauties. Again, these are perfect for that prize winning livestock. And those pies and cakes that are to-die-for are all longing for the recognition that one of these special rosette ribbons gives.

Rosette ribbons are seen everywhere at the fair. From giant pumpkins to those cute little baby piglets, they are truly the classic touch at your local state or county fair. There are plenty of titles and stock ribbons to choose from. Or, make your own custom fair ribbons. They can have any title or honor imprinted to meet all of your needs.

Have you ever won state or county fair ribbons? If so, what was it for? We’d love to hear your story!