Colour of the Year Craft

Now that we have shared with you some of our favourite colour of the year things, we are making some of our own this week. We thought that making bookmarks would be a neat way to showcase the colour of the year and we thought that we would make some bookmarks with some of our green scraps from the cards that we have made. Bookmarks are always handy to have around and they are fun to make and pretty easy to make as well. We have thought about making bookmarks to go with our cards before. We have so many scrap pieces that are perfect for making bookmarks so we’re going to test out some ideas that we have during the post this week.

Here’s what we gathered to make our bookmarks (we’re making two different ones):

Green Ink

“Inspire” Stamp

Green Cardstock (Various Shades)

Homemade Green Paper

Olive Green Ribbon

Maple Leaf Paper Punch

Magnets

Glue Tape

Glue Stick

Scissors

Bookmark #1 “Flat Green with Maple Leaves:”

First off we cut a darker green piece as the actual bookmark. Make it whatever size you like. Next we cut another lighter piece of green cardstock and used it as a layer on top of the base.

We took inspiration from the meaning of the colour of the year and punched out some maple leaves to adorn the front of the bookmark, but before we did that we glued down a thicker olive green ribbon as an accent alongside the maple leaves.

Bookmark #2 “Green Magnetic Inspire:”

For this one we cut a primary green layer similar to the size of the base of our first bookmark and then we folded it in half. Then we cut a bright green layer along with a smaller layer of our homemade paper to put on top of that.

Next we stamped “Inspire” in green ink on the top green layer. We put a scrap piece of paper down to protect the surface that we were stamping on.

Lastly, we stuck two magnets together (so they lined up). We glued one of them to one inside edge of the bookmark and then, leaving them stuck together, we glued the top magnet that was still exposed to the other side of the bookmark.

Once glued, you can open up your bookmark and attach it to the pages in your book and you will never lose your spot again!