Sweet Stampin' - School Days

Woohoo, check me out, it's only been a couple of days, and I'm back again with a new post. I'm on a roll, LOL. It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' and this week we are looking forward to seeing your 'School Days' creations. 

I chose to make a bookmark for my daughter Georgie for this challenge. She's done so well with her reading this year, she's top of her class for Reading & Comprehension, so I thought it would be nice to celebrate this with a special bookmark to mark this achievement. I found an enchanting stamp from 'A Day For Daisies' for this make called 'Book Dreams'.

I love this enchanting stamp. When I'd coloured this up for Georgie, I could see that it would make a great gift for my book loving Swedish pal, so I made one for her too.

Once I had tracked down a quote I loved, I used my computer to create the sentiment beside the image, which is a Neil Gaiman quote and reads...

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand" ~ Neil Gaiman

I think this quote is so perfect for this image and a great celebration of how well our daughter is doing with her reading in school.

I've used my Distress Inks to colour up both these sweet images and I've printed them onto two very gorgeous Michele Roos digital papers and digitally added a shadow to each image. The sweet blue butterfly paper was offered free by Michele as a promotion and so was the pretty coral pink paper. I have loads of her delish papers and I've been wanting to use these two pretty papers for some time, and thought this make worked really well with them. I have been hunting to find the name of the two papers, so I could reference them properly, but alas haven't yet, so watch this space, I'll update when I have the detes.

The cool tassels I've tied on the bookmarks, came on a fancy soap wash I bought a while back and I knew I'd find the perfect make to include these on. So happy with how they look on these bookmarks. I'm actually going to laminate both the bookmarks and then add the tassels again afterwards. But wanted to take the pics first incase something went wrong in the laminating process! Don't laugh, it's happened before!!

Right, that's it from me tonight. Pop on over to the Sweet Stampin' blog to check out what my awesomely talented teamies have been up to and join us for this fun 'School Days' challenge, there's a fab prize up for grabs from 'Crafts U Love'. See ya'll again really soon. Hugs, Wends x

Challenge Entries:
Cutie Pie Challenge: #90 ~ Cute & Girly
Crafting From The Heart: #75 ~ Anything Goes
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create: Anything Goes + Optional Twist CYOC
Crafty Catz Challenge: #290 ~ Use a Golden Oldie Stamp (I've had this digital stamp ages!)
Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes with a Stamp and a Die (ADFD digital stamp and Spellbinders die use to create shaped end of bookmark.)
Dream Valley Challenge: #114 ~ Back To School (Bookmark created for my daughter to use in her school reading books.)

Update: I won the Dream Valley prize, but was too late to claim. Thanks for the opportunity ladies.