Fun with Badges and Banners - and a mystery question.

Welcome !

Thanks for visiting me today, I am delighted to share this weeks #coffeeandcard projects with you.  They were made using the Badges and Banners stamp set, which matches both the
Duet Banner and the Best Badge punches.  I used the sweet Playful Palette paper stack for some of the backing papers.

Here were my samples.

 The ladies did a great job as you can see - with a mixture of printed and stamped backgrounds - I wonder if you can tell which is which?

 And now for the mystery question.... At the #coffeeandcard session we also used all of the items in the photo below. Why do you think we were using them?
I would love to hear your ideas? I will post the answer later....

Please comment with your answer to my mystery question..... why were we using these at #coffeeandcard ?