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.
Meljen 74: no patterned paper - solid cardstock only
The crazy challenge 82: new - new technique (to me) colouring ribbon with inks, new items used: the glitter bling frames
and for 365 cards day day 189: pattern frenzy - to use six different patterned papers. This is another one for Jules crafty snippet challenge 35. 
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Background paper is from the My mind's eye Christmas glitter book. The Santa collage stamp is one of my favourites - stamped with stazon blazing red embossed with clear detail powder, other elements from my Christmas stash.
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It's also for CAS-ual Fridays 18, which asks for a CAS project inspired by a book (I chose 'Anniversary: the love story' by Michael Adamse), and use the colours black, white and red. This challenge is being sponsored by Paper and such. The colours are also for the play date cafe 97: black and white with a splash of red.
Background paper is from My Mind's Eye Christmas glitter book - just right for Christmas inspirations 32: Christmas card with glitter, decorated strips across the bottom are from my Christmas offcuts box. The snowman is a Stampotique stamp by Jo Capper-Sandon called 'chilly', coloured with copics.
This is also for Samuel Taylors September challenge: Christmas card using any rubber stamp - there is a fab prize of 4 Prima paper pads for one lucky winner.
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This is for House mouse 103: no cookin' recipe card, using a Meljen's digital image printed on to the House Mouse computer tutors stamped image, which was coloured with copics.
It's also for Less is more week 31: metallic - I've used two metal embellishments which I got from the 99p store.
This is also for Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit
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The challenge for The paper variety 49 is to make a paper project with a birthday theme and add a banner, so this is also for that.
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