Blooming Bookmark

 

I started this bookmark card a while back but only just finished it recently.  Normally I add a pocket when I create a bookmark card, but for this one I attached the bookmark with the aid of magnets.   It worked well until I added that tassel which is so heavy,  my original magnets weren't strong enough.  I've added a larger magnet to the inside.  To dress up magnets which can't be hidden, I add a little bit of DP cut with one of the many dies I have that cut small circles (flower centres, border dies and such)!  If you can't hide something, make it  feature!

The bookmark was stamped with the Sugar Pea Designs set Read Between the Lines and cut with the Brainy Bookmark set (also from Sugar Pea) though I trimmed it down so I could fit it on a standard card size.  I added a snippet of "striped" DP to the top and bottom before I cut the bookmark and added strips of gold paper at the join lines.   I added one of the gorgeous blooms (Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms) - I had a few blooms left over from the last time I used this set.   I added more blooms to the card itself, some of which are just peeking out when the bookmark is attached to the card front!  

Here's what the card looks like once the bookmark has been removed.   

As well as the lovely blooms is an impressive stack of summertime reading!  The "quill" on top is actually a leaf from the same set but I think it resembles a feather - that space needed something but I didn't want it visible when the bookmark was in place!

Once I had cut my stackof pink books, I tried masking the covers and colouring the pages with gold gilding wax which didn't work - the gilding wax got everywhere despite my best efforts.  So I cut another stack of books from the pink, cut away the pages and attached it on top of the gold one to hide the mess!  There are only a few places where you have to snip so the pages came away quite easily.  I suppose if I'd used a gold pen rather than the gilding wax, it would have been less mess and less work, but I doubt it would have looked as realistic.

 I decorated the insert and envelope with reduced stacks and just cut these from gold and pink, snipped away the pages on the pink ones and overlaid these "covers"!

 

The reason I wanted to get it finished was The Library Challenge has just reopened and the Librarian has chosen The Reading List to celebrate!  

 

 

 For Flower Challenge #81, we're asked to use our favourite flower!  I don't really have a favourite flower - they're all beautiful IMO!  However this Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms set is most definitely my favourite flower die at the moment!  

I'd also like to enter my card in the Triple B June Challenge - Just Blooms today;

Bastel-Traum Challenge #124 - Plants and Flowers;

and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!

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Kate

Read On

I'm preparing some kits for a workshop in May and this is one of the projects I'll be including in the kit - a Bookmark Card.  

The Sweetpea Designs Read Between the Lines stamp set and the Brainy Bookmark Die set were no brainers for this design!  There is a tag in the die set but I used another die from Love 2 Craft because it has a stitched edge.

I made the pocket from a 6x6 sheet of designer paper - I have way too much of that!  Left over bits were used to trim the bookmark.

I stamped the text with brilliance Galaxy Gold and trimmed the bookmark with gold foil paper.  The READ and specs were cut from the same paper and I couldn't resist adding a little glossy accents for the lenses.

Imagine my surprise when I noticed a "Pocket" challenge at Double D Challenges! 

 I also spotted a "Let it Be" challenge at The Little Red Wagon Challenge # 643 - include projects that have something to do with the letter B.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #465 has a Full Metal Jacket Theme and as I've used Gold Foil Paper, I'd like to enter there are well.

I'd also like to enter Papercraft Challenge #79 where Anything Goes!

Finally I'm entering the NBUS Challenge #36 as I've used a new tag die!

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Kate

Books and Tea

I saw an annoying ad on Facebook a while back and it got me thinking.  Everyone knows that tea is instant wisdom - you just need to add water!  Add that to a love of reading and you can't go wrong!  

I decided to make a bookmark card - seemed like a good idea for a book-themed card!  I decorated a pocket for my bookmark with a stack of books and popped a cuppa on the top.  This little owl was rolling his eyes when he saw the bookmark I made so I added him to the scene as well (he really needed his specs to read that last line)!

This card will be entering the following challenges

Day of the Month Club Challenge #23 - National Bird Day

Use Your Stuff Challenge #414 - Out with the Old (I've been hoarding the paper pad for years)

Shopping Our Stash Challenge # 437 - I need a cup of Coffee (or tea in my case)

Little Red Wagon Challenge #585 - Die-ing to get Crafty 

Happy Little Stampers January 2021 Anything Goes with Dies

NBUS Challenge #22 - The Owl was NBUS

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Hugs and stay safe,

Kate