Butterfly kisses - patchwork

I bought this patchwork paper a while ago and decided to use some on this card for the patchwork theme for Cupcake 158. I stamped two Stampotique butterflies by Janet Klein, heat embossed with silver and coloured with poppy promarker - for Passion for promarkers 116 theme: patchwork. Unfortunately, I had to resort to a scan because there was too much sheen picked up by the flash because every other square is shiny - this looks lovely irl.

This is also for this week's theme on Daring cardmakers: flutterby, where this lovely photo inspiration is given, the challenge being to use the colours and also include butterflies:

It was only after I'd finished the card and looked to see what the name of the paper is - Butterfly kisses - patchwork by NitWit Essentials - so how appropriate it was that I decided to add butterflies. I felt that I wanted to add more to the card, but I think the patchwork paper is so lovely that it would be a shame to hide too much of it.

This is also for:

Flutter by Wednesday 170: open + butterfly

PaperPlay 36: use two or more stamped images

The paper shelter 30: embossing of any kind

Inspiration Avenue: patterns

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Stamp something: something to say goodbye 'anything goes' (sadly, their last challenge)

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Ladybug: anything goes

Make it Monday 53

Inspire me Fridays 23

Seeing double

I seem to be getting more and more into one layer CAS cards - with the help of challenges like Less is More, which this week (32) is asked us to 'see double'.

I used a My Mind's Eye stamp from a set called wild asparagus, inking the stamp with memento rich cocoa and stamping twice so that the second one was a faded version. The 'thank you' sentiment is an Anna Griffin stamp.

I think I might make a few more of these to have as sets of 5 when I have my sale soon for Tearfund.

This is also for:

Wee memories 67: one layer projects

Stamp, scrap & doodle: thank you

Stampin' sisters in Christ 105: use quiet colours

CHNC challenge 37: swirls

The weeks are going by at an alarming pace - it's time for another challenge on my CHNC blog. For challenge 37 I'm asking you to use swirls on your cards. Please click on the link for the challenge to read what this is all about - and it would be lovely if you made a card and entered it for us all to see. There are lots of you who have been making Christmas cards for weeks (even months), but I suspect there are some of you reading this who have yet to start them - why not begin with this challenge?

For my card I stamped randomly with a Dawn Bibby Personal Impressions stamp inked with versamark and heat embossed with red metallic powder. I then added some rhinstone gems on to the end of the swirls.

The central nestie shape was cut from a piece of glittered card rescued from a Christmas cracker a couple of years ago, topped with the stamped image 'jolly Santa' by Hero Arts with just his face and hat coloured with copics.

(Sorry about the quality of the photo - I really should get my card made in daylight - will replace if I can get a better shot.)

I'm entering this for the following challenges:

ABC Christmas: R is for recycling and rhinestones (or ribbons)

Winter wonderland: Santa Claus is coming to town

Scrapbook sisters 51: ho ho ho
Christmas crafting 3: Christmas sparkle

Scrap-card 11: Christmas

Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 8: Santa

Samuel Taylors September Christmas card using any rubber stamp (prize of four Prima paper pads)

Christmas cards all year round September: everything is more than a year old

Crafty ribbons 1: festive cheer in September

Sunday's with Santa (facebook) 34: shaped card

Crafty creations 135: anything but a square

Created by hand: hurricane/swirls - no hurricane (only outside!), just swirls

PaperPlay 36: use two or more stamped images

Cheerful stamp pad 25: let's reuse

Do you stack up 36: texture (the glittered recycled card from the Christmas cracker)

The paper shelter 30: embossing of any kind

Flourishes bring back the beauty of colour: monochromatic

Try it on Tuesday: monochrome

The stamp man 31: monochrome - white and one other colour you love to use

Pile it on 36: B for ... bling

Whoopsi Daisy: let's bling it

Delightful: bling it!

iCopic lover 46: glitter

Little red wagon 97: use a die cut

Crop stop 36: spellbinders die cuts

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Stamp something: something to say goodbye 'anything goes' (sadly, their last challenge)

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes + option: shaped card

Fun with shapes and more 91: what you want

Make it Monday 53

Inspire me Fridays 23

Forever friends just for you

This is for Just us girls 100 sketch:

It's also for Forever friends: use your dies, using a nestie to cut out the FF image, coloured with copics.

This is also for:

Cupcake 158: patchwork quilt (the paper behind the image - from my offcuts, so don't remember the make)

Little red wagon 97: use a die cut

Pile it on 36: B for ... bow

Aly's Sunday: add a bow

Nightshift stamping 83: bow

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Ribbon carousel 19: anything goes

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Make it Monday 53

Thinking of you ...

... with deepest sympathy (written on the insert).

This is for Sukkersott 135: condolence card, also for Sentimental Sundays 71: sympathy/thinking of you.

Colours are for the play date cafe 98 (sorry that the colours on the photo don't look quite the same as irl).

The stamp is one of my favourites: Penny Black sparklers.

This is also for:

Rubber cafe: no designer paper

Desert island crafts 15: choose 3 - kraft paper, nature inspired, sentiment

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Make it Monday 53

Annabelle's birthday celebrations

Annabelle stamps are celebrating their 2nd birthday with some special challenges. The first one is to use a new stamp, die cuts and bling. Andrea kindly provided a lovely free digital image to celebrate, which I've used here, printing on to an Elizabethan stackle die cut, coloured with copics and decorated with lots of red flat back pearls. You can read more about the challenge on Sue's blog and on Kylie's.

I've also used the colours - kraft, red and brown - for Annabelle's 'say it in ...' challenge this week.

This is also for:

One stitch at a time 78: use a digi

Cardmadfairy's digi days 16: add flowers

Stamp something: September digi day

Little red wagon 97: use a die cut

Daisy doodles 41: anything goes

White glitter Christmas

This card was prompted by Crafty Ann 48: it's be all white on the night (hope it's OK that there is also some silver).

This is also for Margaret's challenge for the Christmas card gang: All white with a touch of glitter - if you want to know more about the gang, please get in touch with one of us on my list in the sidebar.

Having looked in a big box of crinkly, handmade papers that I've had for years, when I made a card the other day, I remembered that I had some white with glittery snowflakes - unfortunately, it wasn't wide enough for my card, so I used the strip of wide silver ribbon so that I could cut and use the glittered paper either side of it (no one would know that the paper didn't go all the way across).

I also found a square of textured white paper - I had no idea whether I could successfully stamp on this, but had a go with an Anna Griffin stamp inked with versamark and heat embossed with detail silver - looks much better irl.

This is also for:

Christmas crafting 3: Christmas sparkle

Scrap-card 11: Christmas

Samuel Taylors September Christmas card using any rubber stamp (prize of four Prima paper pads)

Christmas cards all year round September: everything is more than a year old

Crafty ribbons 1: festive cheer in September

Do you stack up 36: texture

The paper shelter 30: embossing of any kind

The paper variety: use stamps

Flourishes bring back the beauty of colour: monochromatic

Try it on Tuesday: monochrome

Pretty little ribbon shop 2: monochrome

Whoopsi Daisy: let's bling it

Delightful: bling it!

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

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Ribbon carousel 19: anything goes

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Make it Monday 53

Joy to the world

This card was prompted by a few Christmas challenges:

Winter wonderland: special friend
Bah! humbug 35: Christmas sentiment/text as a focal point
Christmas stampin all year long: fancy shmancy - a new fold/something different

Christmas crafting 3: Christmas sparkle

Scrap-card 11: Christmas

For fun: it's Christmas in August

Samuel Taylors September Christmas card using any rubber stamp (prize of four Prima paper pads)

Crafty ribbons 1: festive cheer in September

It's an easel card for:

Top tip Tuesday 50

Paper creator's crafts 6

Bunny Zoe 15

Simon says: multifold

Papertake: anything goes + option: shaped card

Mami doodles 32: shaped card

The main sentiment is a Clarity stamp, stamped with versamark and heat embossed with detail silver. The sentiment and surround is part of a Close to my heart 'my acrylix' stamp set, again stamped with versamark and silver embossed. Paper is from the PM Christmas carol linen paper pack.

The inside of the base part of the card is decorated with a vellum panel which is silver embossed - this is for Creative Belli 125: acetate or vellum (this is an old and forgotten vellum)

This is also for:

Freshly brewed 63: something new - I'd never used this stamp before

Quirky crafts 18: flourishes and embossing

The paper shelter 30: embossing of any kind

Rainbow lady 168: let's emboss it

Sundays with Crissy 21: friendship

My craft spot 24: friends are the best

Stamps R us: friendship

My time to craft 156: just between friends

2 sisters 55: friends

The paper variety: use stamps

Flourishes bring back the beauty of colour: monochromatic

Try it on Tuesday: monochrome

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Crafting when we can 1: do it your own way

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Case-ing a Jingle Belle

Every week I intend to enter a card for the Jingle Belles challenge, but quite often I run out of time before the deadline - I was determined this week to get a card done in time.

The challenge on Jingle Belles this week is to CASE a card - I chose Stef's card,which was originally shown for this challenge on 13 May:

The paper with the lovely little Christmas pictures is Letters to Santa, part of the Christmas past collection by Graphic 45. This is a double sided paper, so I've matted the pictures with paper from the reverse side.

The background glittery paper is from My Mind's Eye Christmas glitter book.

This is also for:

Scrap-card 11: Christmas

For fun: it's Christmas in August

Glitter fairies 2: Christmas cuties

Let's craft and create 27: blast from the past - I chose challenge 8: it's Christmas

Anything goes 49: vintage/shabby chic

Scrappy frogs: vintage

Cupcake 158: patchwork quilt

Flutter by Wednesday 170: open + angels

Charisma cardz 35: anything goes

Using up scraps

This card for the sketch on Skipping stones 92 was just right for using up scraps:

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.

The colours are for CR8FN 37:

and for:

Flourishes bring back the beauty of colour: monochromatic

Try it on Tuesday: monochrome

The star is chipboard covered with paper.

This is also for:

Crafty purple frog: birthdays

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Vintage Santa

This is for A la card monkey 72 Christmas sketch: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.

Fab's big Christmas challenge for September calls for poinsettias; Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 8 is 'Santa'.

Everything I've used is a year old, so this is also for Christmas cards all year round for September.

The colour combo of chocolate, cream and cranberry is for Sparkle creations Christmas card challenge week 40.

Terrible photo because of poor light/use of flash.

This is also for:

Paper creations ink 8: vintage or distressed look

Anything goes 49: vintage/shabby chic

Cuddly buddly 10: vintage, distressing & flowers

Oldie but a goodie: Christmas in September - my lovely Santa stamp is now a few years old

Scrap-card 11: Christmas

For fun: it's Christmas in August

Christmas crafting 3: Christmas sparkle

Samuel Taylors September Christmas card using any rubber stamp (prize of four Prima paper pads)

Christmas inspirations 32: Christmas card with glitter

Going grey with Scrap-creations: winter wishes

Your next stamp 50: song inspiration: Santa Claus is coming to town

Crafty ribbons 1: festive cheer in September

Let's craft and create 27: blast from the past - I chose challenge 8: it's Christmas

Poodles parlour: animal antics - the reindeer prancing across the paper

Craft your passion 74: anything goes with a twist: flowers

St Luke's September: card buffet - I chose patterned paper, ribbon, flowers and embossing

Crafting for all seasons 8: bingo - I chose ribbon, glitter/shine, flowers

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Ribbon carousel 19: anything goes

Creative card crew: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Stamp n doodle: anything goes

Papertake: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

CAS anniversary

This is for the sketch for Clean & simple 156:

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.

The papers were from my scraps box (the narrow strip was actually recycled from some packaging - for Cheerful stamp pad 25: let's reuse), the red gems are from Poundland and the sentiment is Craftime. I coloured a chipboard heart with lipstick red copic, stamped using an Anna Griffin lace stamp and triple embossed with UTEE, raised up with a foam pad between the gems so that it lies flat.

Chilly the snowman

This is for the sketch for Totally Gorjuss 96 (a £10 voucher to spend in Joanna Sheen's online shop will be given to the randomly drawn winner):
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.

The sentiment says: To you and your family.

Photo isn't good because it's a flash one (will try and replace with a daylight one if weather permits tomorrow).

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.

The colours are for Crafty catz 98: monochromatic.

Handbag card

I was looking through a box of card blanks and came across a couple of handbag cards that I've had for longer than I can remember, so I decided to make something with one of them.

The challenge for this week's Going grey with Scrap-Creations is to 'decorate the inside of your card. I thought I would make the card so that it can be turned either way, so it's just one card, but can be used a couple of different ways.

Cards und more 35 is looking for cards that are not square, so I'm linking for that, also for Mami doodles 32: shaped card, and 365 cards day 185: so unusual.

I used loads of sparkly gems on both sides of the card, so this is for Oldie but a goodie 26 - the old stamp is the Basic Grey journaling one that I thought would be a good place to write in. I coloured this with copic sugared almond pink for Copic creations 57: pretty in pink - and for iCopic 46: glitter (bling).

The spotty paper is English Paper Company Ladies of leisure, but all the other papers are Basic Grey - wisteria and sultry and, of course, the stamp is BG too - this is suitable for a celebration birthday, so I'm linking for Basic Grey 52.

This is the same card, just folded different ways:

This is also for:

The crazy challenge 83: spots and stripes

Our daily bread 75: spots or stripes

Art impressions 30: lots of dots

4 crafty chicks 53: celebrate

Truly scrumptious 64: rocked up pink

Pile it on 36: B for bling

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

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

Frosted designs fabulous Friday: flourishes

Fun with shapes and more 91: what you want

Creative card crew: anything goes

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Woodware USA 42: anything goes

Crafting when we can 1: do it your own way

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Celebrating 60 years

Regular visitors to my blog might remember that about ten days ago I made a commissioned Diamond Wedding Anniversary card. The card I've done today is from us for the same couple.

I've used similar paper to the commissioned card (which you can see here), once more using the top left hand corner of a 12 x 12 paper - PM orante snowflake metallic (didn't realise when I chose it that it was snowflake - hope it doesn't look too Christmassy!).

The flower is Craftime and the various hearts are from stash. All the foiled elements are silver (not black as they look here). The embossed sentiment says Happy Anniversary, of course, only just visible here.

Colours are for A gem of a challenge 29 photo inspiration:

This is for:

Deep ocean 7: hearts

Alphabet: P for pretty pastels

Cute card Thursday 180: a pinch and a punch (punched hearts)

Ooh-la-la 88: anniversary

Shabby tea room 78: pink wedded bliss

Stamp n doodle: anniversary

Designed2delight Saturday challenge: wedding or anniversary

Little Claire designs 12: wedding/anniversary

4 crafty chicks 53: celebrate
Cooking it up with Katie 73: make a pink, blingy sticker (hope the peel off numbers count)

Truly scrumptious 64: rocked up pink

Fussy & fancy 1000 follower celebration challenge using the Fussy & Fancy colour scheme

Pile it on 36: B for bling

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

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

Creative card crew: anything goes

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Crafty boots: anything goes

Woodware USA 42: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Autumn birthday

This is for the sketch on Celebrate the occasion 28:



With autumn on the way (where was summer?) it's time to start thinking of colours of orange, brown, red, etc, so these are what I've concentrated on for this card. Day 187 on 365 cards: past, present and future, asked us to use an item from the past (the K & Co script paper that has been in a box for years now, also the blingy leaf), favourite colours at present (autumnal) and an upcoming event (birthday). The colours are also for:

Craft us crazy 16: autumn colours

Polka doodles 35: autumn leaves

Secret crafter Saturday 150: the colours of autumn

Die cuttin' divas 30: fall colours

Heidi's hobbystuggu September: fall colours

This is also for:

Little darlings 6: ruffles or pleats

Whoopsi Daisy: let's bling it (this started off for last week's 'autumn colours' challenge, but I was too late for that, but the autumn leaf is very blingy!)

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

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

Birthday sundaes 25: birthday card

Happileigh 37: birthday

Crafty purple frog: birthdays

LiaStampz 2: birthday

Creative card crew: anything goes

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Asters (well, one, actually .. or is it?.)

On Daring cardmakers this week the theme is Asters or morning glory, as they are flowers associated with September.

I thought I would experiment further with my Hougie board, having successfully made the big rosettes I showed yesterday. I found up an offcut piece of flowery paper (no idea where it originally came from) and scored it in half cms. I thought it might look more realistic to cut into the 'petals' instead of leaving them looking more like rosettes. Not sure that it looks much like an aster really, but hey ho!

The challenge on 365 cards day 183 is Imagine this: wrinkled - I have a box of lots of crinkly handmade papers that haven't been used for years, so I decided to dig one out - I chose this shiny wrinkled pink paper (terrible to get a photo because of the shine). I mounted this on to a 7 x 5 card and finished off with a piece of card candy in the centre of the flower, stem and leaves with stitched ribbon and the birthday sentiment.

This is also for:

My time to craft 155: in full bloom

Moving along with the times 114: handmade flowers

PaperPlay 35: make your own flowers

Craft your days away 28: make your own flowers

Lothian crafts 18: handmade flowers

Birthday sundaes 25: birthday card

Happileigh 37: birthday

Crafty purple frog: birthdays

LiaStampz 2: birthday

Jules always with a heart crafty snippet challenge 35 (paper for the flower was from my offcuts)

Creative card crew: anything goes

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

Recipe for happiness

For this card I've used the sketch for Stamp with fun 126:

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.

The recipe says:

Recipe for happiness

- 1 cup of friendship

- lots of love

- endless servings!

Papers are 7 gypsies Baja journey - I chose these for Altered Alice September: week 1 chapter 7: text as nonsense.

I've used three patterned papers, two embellishments (ribbon and gems) and one image for Woodware USA 41: it's a 3-2-1 challenge, also for My mum's craft shop 21: 1-2-3 it's easy as ...

The theme of the card is friendship for Sundays with Crissy 21, Do you stack up 35: friendly critters, and 2 sisters 55: friends.

The pastel colours are for Stampin' sisters in Christ 105: nothing bright - quiet colours, also for Alphabet: P for pretty pastels.

This is also for:

365 cards day 186: pick a pattern - made by the gems on the ribbon

Poodles parlour: animal antics

Stamp and create: critters

Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Creative card crew: anything goes

The paper shelter 29: anything goes

Stamp dreams 97: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Our craft lounge 81: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 22

Make it Monday 53

CAS white space with metal

This card uses the sketch for the white space challenge for day 184 on 365 cards:

It's also for Less is more week 31: metallic - I've used two metal embellishments which I got from the 99p store.

I used two faux lace stamps from Anna Griffin with stazon vibrant violet, repeating across the card and the half nestie shape at the bottom, edging the shape with the ink pad. I used the faux lace stamps for The stampsmith challenge 21: fabulous faux.

This is also for Stamptacular 127: the sky's the limit

Birthday cupcakes

For this card I've used the sketch for Sketch Saturday 171:

It's also for Birthday sundaes 24 inspiration photo:

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.

The background paper is from an English paper company pack - I stamped directly on to this using a bunting stamp from Forever Friends springtime set, curving it on the acrylic block and stamping twice to make the line of bunting, which was then coloured with promarkers. This is for Our creative corner: stamp happy, stamp on to patterned paper; also for Passion for promarkers 115 theme: anything goes, and I love promakers 81: anything goes.

The cupcake image is a digi from The paper shelter 'tea time' set which I won for their challenge 26, so I'm linking this for The paper shelter 29: anything goes.

This is also for:

Happileigh 37: birthday

The stamping boutique: come celebrate with us in September - birthday project

Crafty purple frog: birthdays

Pattie's creations 29: birthdays

LiaStampz 2: birthday

Bee crafty September 54: beautiful borders/fantastic frames

Cardmakin mamas 28: digi images and/or papers

Stamp something: September digi day

Meljen 74: no patterned paper

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

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