These fun and colourful bookmarks are eye popping enough to make sure you don't loose your place in what ever you're reading. They are made with left over paint chips. This is a lovely way to recycle these paint chips into something that is useful and attractive enough to slip in as a gift with a birthday or thank you card.
They are a easy and relatively quick project that needs only a few basic tools. So dig out those weird and wonderful coloured paint chips (that you once considered painting your bedroom) and follow our directions for making them into bookmarks.
This project goes very quickly if you have a paper cutter, if you don't then a good pair of scissors is necessary.
Gather up all your paint chips and start putting together colour combinations that you would like. Using any plain paper from your recycling pile ( we used old envelopes) cut 5 1/2 inch by 1 3/4 inch strips
These strips will be the base of your bookmarks and will be completely covered. Cut your paint chips in strips or long triangles avoiding any print that is on the paint chip.
Using a glue stick, glue the strips of paint chips on the paper, butting the paint chips close together. Don't worry about the paint chips extending over the edge of your paper strip, when the design is complete you will cut off the excess.
When one side is done, do the other side making a different pattern. Let the glue dry. Find an object in your home that has a curved edge (we used a coaster) and using a pencil trace a curve on each corner of the bookmark and cut.
When one side is done, do the other side making a different pattern. Let the glue dry. Find an object in your home that has a curved edge (we used a coaster) and using a pencil trace a curve on each corner of the bookmark and cut. With a hole punch put a hole on the top of the book mark. Using cord, thick thread, suede or ribbon, thread through the hole with a hitch knot. Slip the bookmark into your favourite book.
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OH MY GOSH!!! How freakin' creative!! Seriously, I would never have thought about this and the best part is that they don't cost anything. THANK YOU sooo much for linking these up for "Show us what you're workin' with Wednesday"!! I will DEFINITELY be featuring these on my blog on Wednesday!! thanks again!!
This is too cool! I love it! :)
I am having a crafty competition using Paint Samples that I would love to have you enter this in!
Check it out here: http://firefliesandjellybeans.blogspot.com/2010/08/iron-crafter-round-4-paint-samples.html
Very creative! I hope you don't mind but I featured your paint chips bookmarks on my blog :)
http://www.deeindesign.com/blog/2011/03/bookmarks-for-bookworms/
very creative work. this is really a cool i like it