Bookmarks are a small canvas for expressing yourself. Typically only a few square inches, there's still plenty of room for information and illustration.
And they can be super handy for Save the Date that'll remind every time someone opens their book; using as a program marker in a hymnal at just the right song for your ceremony; using as favors and/or place setting markers.
Also, they make the PERFECT addition to literary/book-themed weddings. Where are my book nerds!?
Whether you're saving the page or saving the date, a bookmark is a simple but effective DIY project you can tackle, and here's how to make your own… complete with tassel.
Materials and Tools
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- File folders, cereal boxes, paint chips, or cardstock material
- Scissors
- Embroidery
Floss - Corner
Punch (optional) - Single hole punch
Bookmark Procedure
Step 1: Measure and cut out your bookmark's rectangle (or other zanier shape).
Step 2: Use corner punch to round corners.
Step 3: Decorate with markers, stamps, stickers, etc.
Step 4: Use hole punch to add hole for tassel.
Tassel Procedure
Step 1: Take the wrappers off embroidery floss. Unwind four full rounds and cut into eight pieces (each piece will be one length of the skein of floss.
Step 2: Thread a piece through one end of the embroidery floss. Tie off a loop. Trim down to the knot.
Step 3: Wrap a second piece of floss tightly around the head of the tassel and tie off tightly. Trim close to knot.
Step 4: Repeat on other end of floss, then pinch in centers and repeat again.
Step 5: Cut floss midway between each head loop. You may have to trim ends and fluff tassels.
Step 6: Attach tassels to bookmarks with loops.
Tips:
You can use any kind of cardstock or stiffer paper for this project. Paint chips, cereal boxes, photo paper, old calendars, or your favorite scrapbook paper.
You can run paper through a printer, make a stamp to help you keep everything uniform, or freehand your designs giving everyone something a bit different and quirky.
If you're having trouble visualizing the steps for the tassel, try this all-in-one explanation in blue:
Your Turn!
Okay bookish brides: How would you use your own custom bookmarks in your wedding?
YEAH Hy-Vee brand soda!
YAY bookmarks! I’ll be creating bookmarks to use as escort cards, which will tie into my centerpieces (a small stack of hardcover books with lanterns on top)
AWESOME. I demand porn of all of it. 🙂
Will do!
I sent my bookmarks with the invites set between the front of the “book” and the invitation wording. I did not do the full tassel but instead did ribbons in red and purple, pulled through the heart shaped hole then draped behind the back of the “book”.
That sounds beautiful! Any pictures? 🙂
Not yet. I still have all the pieces and the extras that I made just in case and hadn’t taken the time yet. But I plan too once the wedding and honeymoon and moving are done.
I finally got it uploaded to the Offbeat bride photo pool.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/easttxrose/8133505832/in/pool-offbeatbride
Love it.
OMG PRINTING ON PAINT CHIPS FOR SAVE THE DATES.
OMG.
This is the coolest idea ever! I have so many paint chips floating around (I collect them for collaging), so I should totally do this.
How about combining this with a photo booth and having guests make their own wedding favors? Cheap? Check. Easy?check. Memorable? Hell yeah!
I am in love with this idea! Just make up a bajillion little tassels for them to add to their photos & have a hole punch nearby. BAM.
So cute and creative! I’ve been looking for a way to let our guests know about our charity donation favor and these might be just perfect!~
I honestly got the biggest kick outta seeing the Hyvee soda…lol moved from the midwest to AZ when I was young, and we don’t have those here.