A Quick Bookmark

For my recent Open House, I wanted to make something to give to each of the attendees to take home.

I cut 8″ lengths of the now retired Early Expresso 1 1/4″ Striped Grosgrain ribbon and attached flowers to create bookmarks.

My flowers were made in the new in-colours, the one to the left is Calypso Coral.  I cut one large and one small flower using the Island Floral Die and punched one Fancy Flower from each colour.  I used my bone folder to curl and separate each flower into two.  I scrunched the flowers up really small and then opened them and stacked them on a Clear Rhinestone brad making sure that I staggered the petals.   I then scrunched them up again around the brad and opened them out to get really beautiful flowers.

The brad actually goes through the flower and into the ribbon, so that I didn’t have to rely on glue to keep them together.

They looked so pretty in all the new in-colours.  These are such a fun and quick gift idea and so useful, even if they only mark your place in the new catalogue.

Bye for now, Kris.