Showing posts with label Book Marks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Marks. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Simple Book Mark

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing one of my bookmarks made in craft workshop conducted for kids. This is simple and easy to make with minimal craft materials. 

The workshop was for children aged 5 years and above. I had tough time controlling them. Most of them were boys and they were not interested in crafts. 

One of the child brought his sister (who was just 3years old) along with him and insisted that she be with him. She was constantly crying. I made her sit on my lap and asked her to help me. She did a good job but was sobbing all the while. Slowly she got engrossed in the work and stopped crying.

It was an experience I can never forget. I do love children. But controlling children from different age groups is really difficult especially when most of them are boys. 

I supplied the craft materials. So I took along with me lots of material as there lot of kids who joined in the last moment.


I had lot of Craft paper Scraps with me. This one is hand made paper with basket weave texture. The colour was a mixture of pink with orange and glittery. That's why the colour is different in the images.

We took a long piece of paper folded width wise  as shown below.

Then punched a hole either on one side or in the middle  on the top side. Then we glued the folds together.

The children choose from the various stickers-butterflies, cartoon images, flowers among many other things.

Boys chose the stickers of cartoons, super heroes or cars and airplanes. Girls mostly chose flowers, butterflies of cartoon characters.


Here I glued the  Kittie and cup cake sticker as the little ones choice. We the tied the blue glittery string and added a wooden bead.

At the end of the class every one was happy and beaming. They proudly carried their craft work to give to their moms/dads.

The little one proudly displayed her creation in the class and was happy when everyone clapped for her.

As I gave a free hand to older kids they did create some very good pieces. Alas I could not take photos of them as I was trying to pacify and control the younger kids.

It was an enriching experience for me and I learnt a lot from the children.

Stay Safe Stay Healthy.


Materials:

  • Handmade Paper with Basket weave
  • Puncher
  • Glittery String
  • Wooden Bead
  • Glue
  • Self Adhesive Stickers



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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Book Marks - Punch Craft

Hi Friends. 

It is hot and sultry. No rains. So it is like summer again. 

There was a time, when Punch Craft was much in fashion. So I used to buy what all punches I could get my hands on. At that time, online craft shops were not there. So I used to rely on local craft shops. We have very few here and only very few used to sell the punches or other craft materials.

Any way here is one Book Mark I made using Punches. 





These are the Punches I used



Materials Used:

  • White Card stock pieces 2
  • Yellow Card Stock piece
  • Red Card Stock piece
  • Punches
  • Corner Rounder
  • Flat backed pearls in two sizes
  • Red and Yellow matching satin ribbons
  • Red and Gold Ghungroo 2 each
  • Single hole puncher
  • Glue


Sunday, July 29, 2018

Book Marks-Simple and Easy

Here is one more book mark which is simple and easy to make. This is how I made it.

  • I took an orange coloured textured hand made paper strip which I had it in my scrap paper stash.
  • folded it into half , punched the flowers on one side.
  • punched a hole in the strips, both front and back ones
  • added a dark pink coloured hand made paper in between the folds and glued the folds .
  • added the flat bottomed pearls
  • made a braid from the wool, strung through the punched hole and knotted each end.
That's all. My book mark was ready.



 This is the front side of the book mark

This is the back side.


Materials Used:


  • Textured hand made paper Orange coloured
  • Hand made paper dark pink coloured
  • Glue
  • Flower punch
  • Black coloured flat bottomed self adhesive pearls
  • Black coloured wool



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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Book Marks-Simple and easy

Hi Friends!

Hope you are all doing well. It has been a long time since I posted. nothing new in that these days, isn't it? Well I am recovering slowly but steadily. Still can't sit for long periods and can't type much.

But today, I took some time out for myself to post this. Its cloudy but hot and also sultry.

Anyways. here is a simple book mark very easy to make. I made it long back. I had some hand made paper scrap with me. So I decided to use it to make some book marks. One of them was this. 

  • I took a long strip of light green coloured hand made paper and folded into half. 
  • Punched holes with a puncher on both the layers.
  • Stuck those two layers together



  • Then I glued some puffy stickers on the folded book mark.



Then I added a coloured string after wards. Sorry I don't have the final picture as I gave it away to one of my little friends.


Materials used:

  • Light green coloured hand made paper strip
  • Puffy stickers
  • Glue
  • Single hole puncher
  • Coloured string

Will be posting more. so watch out.



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Monday, June 20, 2011

Recycled Crafts - Bookmarks


Book Marks With invitation Cards

One of the most difficult ones to dispose off  in India are the Invitation Cards. We receive so many invitations for marriages.  They have the pictures of Gods or auspicious symbols like OM etc. It is believed that throwing away such cards into dustbins or cutting or tearing them brings misfortune or bad luck. So we don't know what to do with them. They keep on piling up.


So I just thought of recycling them by making book marks. The outer envelope, outer card can be cut. But inside it is the invitation which should not be cut or torn. So here is how I have made some book marks. I will post one of them today:
This is the outer card which had a printed paisley border on the edge with Ganesha on the upper part.


I first cut the entire lower part of the outer cover length wise, since it had a gold paisley border and then cut into two halves. It already had a fold, so I took both the upper side and under side of the card.
This is only  one half of the piece. 


Then I folded (along the crease) and glued it. Then I punched a hole and inserted a piece of gold rope (scrap from one of my projects), twisted it and knotted. Here is the book mark. Simple and classy.......

Bookmark

Isn't this easy to make? I have to make more from the left over card pieces. Let us see how I can use them.....


So next time don't throw away the invitations....You can use them creatively.....


Keep a watch.......