Over the past few weeks I've been really enjoying my holiday; spending time with my family, travelling, relaxing, and reading. A good book needs a beautiful bookmark, and I'm sharing with you two new bookmarks that both have the same simple but colourful design:
I started with cutting two panels from white cardstock, and inked them with bright Distress ink colours. Before stamping the player images on the panels I sprinkled plain water on the inked surface to create fun splash textures.
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It's always fun to see how an identical design looks very different when the colours are changed. The bookmarks are identical, as I used a stamping platform tool to stamp the main images.With such a tool you can create several stamped projects on one go, but also stamp the image several times on the same spot and easily get a true dark black image. A crispy black finish looks especially good when using silhouette images like these player men.
I taped the stamped panels on black cardstock, leaving a thin border around the eges. On the bottom of the bookmark I left a bit wider border, as I wanted to decorate the edge. Little details can make a big difference!
I punched a row of holes, and stiched with matching embroidery yarn simple blanket stitches on the edge. I think it gave a nice finishing touch to the project!
The lovely stamps are all from Visible Image collection; for more details on the products please click on the images on the bottom of this post. The quote text stamp I used is from an older version of the 'Music Speaks' set, however, the same text can be found in the new set, too. See the picture below.
Very cool! Jo x
ReplyDeleteAwesome bookmarks.
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