Rosettes for school

When I went out to lunch recently with a friend who is the head of a local infants school, she wanted to go to Hobbycraft to see if they sold rosettes that she could use for 1st 2nd and 3rd places at school. We had a look, but there was nothing ready-made that would be suitable, so I boldly volunteered to make them.

We bought three Making memories Glitter Bling self-adhesive frames, in gold, silver and brown. These are lovely and were just the right size to fit the rosettes I wanted to make.

I used my Hougie board to score the lines for the folds of the rosettes. Because I wanted to make each rosette with a 6" diameter, I used two lengths of paper 3" wide and about 11" long and stuck them together. For anyone who uses a Hougie board, I found that a good tip is to use a low tack masking tape to keep the paper in the right place while scoring.

I thought I'd got some matching gold, silver and bronze ribbons that would be suitable, but I found that I hadn't, so I used some creamy white ribbon that had gold foiled edging, swiping this with Brilliance galaxy gold, starlite silver and coffee bean (the nearest I'd got to bronze). I had to heat these and put them under a heavy box because they curled a bit with the heat, but they turned out OK in the end.

Now for the letters for 1st, 2nd and 3rd - I hadn't got enough letters in the appropriate colours, so I used thickers white chipboard letters, colouring with the three ink pads to match the ribbons and heat embossing with powders - this was very fiddly and I got lovely and inky, but it was worth the effort. Unfortunately, the 1st here looks almost brown, but irl it is a lovely bright gold.

I'm linking these for the following challenges:

Order of the opus gluei 112: everything's coming up roses and rosettes (I had to smile when I saw the challenge on Sunday)

Take time for you 48: everything except cards

Paper pretties 169: anything but a card

Wags n whiskers 62: anything but a card

Just some lines: anything but a card

Meljen 74: no patterned paper - solid cardstock only

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 71: bring on the bling

Rainbow lady 168: let's emboss it (the chipboard numbers)

The crazy challenge 82: new - new technique (to me) colouring ribbon with inks, new items used: the glitter bling frames

Delicious doodles 1: fresh start - something new (as above)

The artistic stamper creative team September: lucky numbers

Sentimental Sundays 70: back to school

Creative stamp friends 32: school

Paper pretties Monday challenge: back to school

Crazy amigo: back to school

The stamping boutique 14: back to school

Pixie cottage 85: back 2 school

Pixie dust studio 90: school is cool

Stamp insanity 74: back to school

Crazy4challenges 103: back to school

If the shoe fits fashionista Friday 90: let's all head back to school

One stop craft 147: back to school - primary colours

Gingersnap GC116 colour challenge: primary colours - red, blue and yellow

Stamp n doodle: project containing 2 or more circles

Sweet stampin': anything but birthday

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Party time Tuesday 31: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Fun with shapes and more 91: what you want

Catch the bug September: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 52

Crafting misfit: show and tell