Happy Saturday!   I thought I would start my post out with a little peak at my stamping attire in the morning, lol.  If you have ever envisioned me as a well dress fancy person, well let me tell you, you are dead wrong.  I would live in my flannel JP’s Twenty Four Seven if I could get away with it.  I get cleaned up every workday and head to work, but the very moment I get home, the work clothes come off and the sweat clothes or the JP’s go on.  I’m not above cooking dinner for my husband and I in my JP’s.

Yep, those are snowflake flannels, lol.  I have way to much more on my mind to think about other than clothing.  Like what stamp am I going to use today?  Will I create a tutorial for my wonderful readers?  Folks, I’m just keeping it real for you. 🙂

Ok, that’s enough about what a slob I am.  Let’s get started on today’s tutorial.

Supplies:

I’m going to start this tutorial by creating the embellishment for the ribbon first and we will set it aside to dry.

Brayered Tangarine Tango ink at the top of a piece of scrap paper.

Stamped the twig stamp in Kiwi Kiss ink.  Stamped the two birds (I’m making two embellishments) in black ink.

Put Crystal Effects on the one side of the Tim Holtz Fragment charm and then put it Crystal Effects side done on top of the bird image.

Let these dry for a while and then I cut the paper away from around the fragment and used a piercing tool to open up the hole in the top of the charm.

Used direct to paper with Apricot Appeal ink and Chocolate Chip ink to give the back some interest.

Now for the Bookmark.

Stamped the block image by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Riding Hood Red ink before stamping it.  I repeated this again for the second block image.  They were both stamped on a 3″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White Card stock.

Heat embossed the images using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored over the block images with a Versamark marker so the white showing in the images would be heat embossed also.  Covered the Versamark image with clear embossing powder and heat with a heat gun to emboss.

Stamped bird by first loading the stamp with Versamark and then with Basic Black ink before stamping.

Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped Twig by first loading the stamp with Versamark and then Kiwi Kiss ink before stamping it.  I didn’t worry about it getting on my previously embossed images.  When it gets heat embossed it melts away.

Heat embossed the twig using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Brayered Apricot Appeal ink at the top half of the card stock.

Brayered More Mustard ink at the top of the card stock not covering the Apricot Appeal ink entirely.

Getting darker yet, I brayered Tangerine Tango ink at the very top of the card stock.

Covered the top 2/3rds of the card stock with a post it note to mask it.

Brayered Tangerine Tango ink at the bottom of the card stock.

Sponged Chocolate chip ink at the post it note edge and at the bottom right hand corner to create a shadow for the vase.

Removed the mask.

Used a ticket corner punch at the top two corners of the main image panel.  Used a Gold Paint maker and dragged in down each edge of the main image panel.

Used a very fine tip black marker and outlined the top right side of the branch and the bottom and right side of the vase.

Adhered the main image panel to a Chocolate Chip panel and used the ticket corner punch on the Chocolate Chip panel’s top corners.

Used a Cropodile to add a gold eyelet at the top of the bookmark.

Added my ribbon through the eyelet, tied a knot in the ribbon and then added my embellishment to the ribbon end with a gold brad.  I don’t like to see any Brad butts showing (except for maybe Brad Pitt butts) so I flipped the embellishment over and covered the brad but with a flower.

Here is the finished bookmark measuring 3 1/4″ x 5.5″. 

Hope this tutorial inspires you to make some bookmakers you will be proud to use and give as gifts.

May your day be filled with enchanting stores.

Until my next post. .. . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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