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Tutorial on How to Make Paper Bookmarks
This is really the general design tutorial. I’ll tell you about each of the bookmarks a bit more below.
Step 1. Decide on the shape of the bookmark you wish to create. We decided on simple long rectangular designs, as well, that’s the shaped colored art paper we had in our paper pack. I will tell you more about that pack later. Best value in town.
Step 2. We looked for scrapbooking bits and bobs that matched both in color, hue and style.
Step 3. Once we had an assortment of goodies for a bookmark, we laid them out onto the bookmark till we had a nice composition. Then, we glued each of these scrapbooking elements on.
Step 4. We set them aside to let the glue dry. Then, after half an hour or so, we went back over each and every design and finished them off.
Step 5. When that was all done, we took out out stamp and ink set and gave some bookmark some nice edges as well as coloring all over, where that would work out. A lot were left plain without any stamping, such as the striped bookmarks ~ they did not need any further ado.
Step 6. On some, we outlined the shapes and at others we drew broken lines and boxes with a fine pointed Sharpie. A few of them begged to get some ‘affirmation’-words written on them. There is one in particular, that I’ll show you.
It’s a ‘happy accident’- story. The golden ink pad I had chosen looked like mud when it accidentally went onto the glitter butterfly scrapbooking element. Then an affirmation came to mind: on the front ‘have faith …’ and on the back ‘…no matter how muddy your road is’. I guess such is life: when the road is muddy and slippery, we need that faith that we will be fine in the end.