Rubber Stamping Bookmarks

Leather Bookmark by Mary Lind

Using thin scraps of leather, place through Wizard using Spellbinder's Timeless Heritage die (set up as if to cut cardstock). Use sharp scissors to cut out heart motif completely. Return heart motif to die (set up to emboss) and run through Wizard. Make a second heart as you did the first.

Put a small dab of white acrylic paint on one finger and rub across embossed heart. Immediately rub on some rose Pearl Ex powder. Continued adding Pearl Ex until heart is colored as desired. Allow to dry.

Glue two heart motifs together, wrong sides together, using leather cement or E6000.

Stamp on a heart motif (stamp source: My Heart Stamps for You) on rose colored side using Black StazOn. Allow to dry. Seal with Diamond Glaze if desired.

Cut two pieces of heavy thread (Silk FFF, Mastex cord, upholstery thread, or crochet/ pearl cotton) about 1 yard each. Fold in the middle and tie to loop on heart using lark's head knot. You now have four cords. Tie 3-4 inches of square knots using the left and right outer cords as knotters and the center two cords as filler.

Tie an overhand knot. (Tie more cords on here if you want a thicker tassel.) String on a large-holed decorative bead. Tie a second overhand knot. Trim ends to make a tassel.

Note: Good source for knotting directions: http://www.elainecraft.com/index.html

Lucky Window Bookmark by Becky Chabot

1. Stamp 1-3/4” x 7-1/2” Celtic patterned paper (Oriental Trading Company) randomly with The Angel Company’s shamrock image (Sketched Holiday set) using VersaMark ink and then emboss with gold powder.

2. Round the top corners and edge with a Krylon Gold Leafing Pen.

3. Cut two 8” x 2-1/8” strips of navy cardstock, round the top corners.

4. Matt the stamped Celtic paper onto one of the navy pieces and punch a 1-3/8” circle near the top, centered.

5. Line up the second piece of navy cardstock behind the first and punch a circle into the second strip of navy cardstock - in the exact same place as the first strip.

6. Cut two 2” square pieces of transparency film.

7. Glue one piece of transparency film over the circle hole in the bottom piece of navy cardstock.

8. Place a dried and pressed four-leaf clover onto the center of the transparency film.

9. Glue the second piece of transparency film over the first, sandwiching the clover and then glue the navy cardstock with the Celtic paper on the front of it to the top.

Encaustic Snakeskin Bookmark by Karen Bourke

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Apples Bookmark by Kathy Stoffel

Find an apple image, change size to fit into slide mounts if needed and then print onto a transparency.

Prepare 3 slide mounts by painting the outside of each with acrylic paint. Stamp slide mounts with Apple Words (N-1767 WORDS-APPLES by A Stamp In The Hand.)

Cut out transparency pictures to fit the slide mount. This bookmark uses two slide mounts that are left open and one that is folded up. Glue the first two transparencies to the inside of each of the two holes in the opened slide mount. Glue the 3rd picture to a slide mount front. Attach the open slide mount to the 3rd fold-up slide mount with double-sided tape (See Bookmark Drawing.)
Then glue another open slide mount and fold up the third slide mount to create this double-sided bookmark.

Punch a hole in the upper left side of the bookmark and set an eyelet. Attach yarn and thread a bead through all the yarn and tie a knot in the end to hold the bead.

Sunny Flowers Bookmark by Viki Banaszak

Start by running a strip of paper through a Stampress (Clearsnap) using a Sunflowers Rollagraph Wheel and an Ancient Page Cool Black ink cartridge.

Color your piece with watercolors.

Attach to rust colored cardstock using double stick tape and trim the edges. Attach to bright green cardstock and trim.

Stamp the word “READ” using the typewriter alphabet (Stampendous) using Noir Black Palette ink (Stewart Superior.)

Punch a hole with the Crop-a-dile (We R Memory Keepers) and attach a sunflower eyelet. Insert a small copper brad in the center.

Take a leftover piece of sunflower print and trim it to fit in a jewelry cabochon setting. Glue it in with white glue and top off with Buttercup and pink Stickles.