Inside Pocket Bookmark Card

Like any avid reader, I collect books and adore anything related to books! So it's no surprise that I have always enjoyed pretty bookmarks and have been making them for as long as I can remember. I smile thinking about my parents who grew up during the depression. They often used kleenex, an old envelope, or anything handy for their bookmarks. They fostered my love of reading at a very early age, so these bookmark cards are another way I honor them. By creating them with my own two hands, I'm not contributing to the glut of Chinese manufactured stuff we seem to be spending so much money on these days.

Make a bookmark card or two, or three... or lots and send them to friends and relative for a lovely way to let them know you are thinking of them. I've recently sent bookmark cards to my Great Nieces and now I'm going to send some to the ladies in my Bible Study. 

These two bookmark cards were made the ultra gorgeous Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper. The Spotlight on Nature dies provide all the additional embellishments needed for a beautiful card for a friend to cherish.

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Products Used:

Gallery Blooms Stamp Set https://www.stampinup.com/products/gallery-blooms-photopolymer-stamp-set?demoid=2109078

Pressed Flower Motifs https://www.stampinup.com/products/pressed-flower-motifs?demoid=2109078

Beautiful Gallery Patterned Paper  https://www.stampinup.com/products/beautiful-gallery-6-x-6-15-2-x-15-2-cm-designer-series-paper?demoid=2109078

Basic Beige Classic Ribbon  https://www.stampinup.com/products/basic-beige-3-8-1-cm-classic-ribbon?demoid=2109078

Spotlight on Nature Dies  https://www.stampinup.com/products/spotlight-on-nature-dies?demoid=2109078

Secret Sea Cardstock  https://www.stampinup.com/products/secret-sea-8-1-2-x-11-cardstock?demoid=2109078

Lost Lagoon Cardstock  https://www.stampinup.com/products/card-stock-8-5-x-11-lost-lagoon?demoid=2109078

Very Vanilla Cardstock  https://www.stampinup.com/products/very-vanilla-8-1-2-x-11-cardstock?demoid=2109078

Diagonal Pocket Bookmark Card

A bookmark card is such a fun thing to send to someone! This bookmark card is so much fun to make and send a smile to someone you know too! Let's eradicate loneliness one card at a time! If we send 3 cards a week in the month of July that's 15 cards right? If 50 people do this, that's 750 cards sent! How wonderful is that?!! Send some love y'all:)

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Corner Bookmark Card

 This bookmark has been around awhile. I mean seriously, you had me at origami! While teaching Gifted and Talented, I had some Japanese students several years ago. They taught me so many orgami folds and it was so much fun! I thought I was doing very well, until Jimmy He, age 10 brought me the tinest pair of cranes. They matched perfectly and I knew I had met my master. I made the cranes into earrings and got so much pleasure from wearing them. In fact, Jimmy was from China, not Japan and he taught me how to play majong. I'd been wanting to learn how to play for years, ever since I took a history class on the Roaring Twenties in college. It was a craze back then, and I wanted to learn so badly, but could never find anyone who knew how.

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Products Used:

• Florals In Bloom Designer Series Paper [165175] https://www.stampinup.com/products/florals-in-bloom-12-x-12-30-5-x-30-5-cm-designer-series-paper?demoid=2109078
• Gallery Blooms Stamp Set [165211] https://www.stampinup.com/products/gallery-blooms-photopolymer-stamp-set?demoid=2109078
• Elements of Text Stamp Set [164774]  https://www.stampinup.com/products/elements-of-text-cling-stamp-set-english?demoid=2109078
• Strawberry Slush Cardstock [164625]  https://www.stampinup.com/products/strawberry-slush-8-1-2-x-11-cardstock?demoid=2109078
• Basic White Cardstock [166780] https://www.stampinup.com/products/basic-white-8-1-2-x-11-cardstock?demoid=2109078   
• Unbounded Love Stamp Set [163378] https://www.stampinup.com/products/unbounded-love-photopolymer-stamp-set-english?demoid=2109078

Detachable Bookmark Card

 Bookmark Cards are making a comeback, and I can certainly see why. What an adorable surcee to give a sweet friend! What is a Surcee you ask?

Surcee  sometimes spelled "Cerci," or “surcy”  Most who use the word Surcee are from North Georgia or the Carolinas, but the term also found its way into Alabama and even Tennessee and Indiana.  I learned the word probably originated from the Scots verb “sussie,” meaning “to take trouble, to care, to bother oneself.” This probably came to Scotland from the French “souci,” meaning “care, trouble.” 

Here in the south it means a thoughtful, unexpected, unnecessary, & inexpensive gift. My Mom and Grandma always brought back Surcees to my brother and I whenever they went on a trip. We always looked forward to whatever treasures they'd bring back to us. I still have some of them: seashells from the Florida keys, Canadian coins from Quebec, or flower pod Grandma brought back from the Holy Land.

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Products Used:

GalleryBlooms Bundle 

Unbounded Love

 

Elements of Text

 Secret Sea Cardstock

BasicWhite

Beautiful Gallery DSP 

Secret Sea Ink Pad

HolePunch Assortment 

BasicBeige Ribbon 

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PressedFlower Motifs  

Swirls and Flourishes

I have something old and something new. No, I'm not getting married again! lol I've been married to my HS sweetheart for 32 years this November:) The first one is a bookmark card that I just finished. I was waiting on my order to come in yesterday with all that free ribbon in it!! There is a diagram showing dimensions for making it just under the project details. Click to enlarge.

The second one is the old card, well a week old. It's for our Color Me Beautiful Challenge, but my selection of ink pad colors was limited, so I originally used Basic Gray on the tree. Now I have lots more ink pad colors, so I revised the top layers and stamped the tree in Lucky Limeade instead. The original card is the last one. Which do you like best? Please come play along with us on the Color Me Beautiful Challenge Blog.

Project Details
Stamps	Flowering Flourishes, Happiest Birthday Wishes
Cardstock & Papers	Whipser White, Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze, Paisley Petals dsp
Ink	Midnight Muse
Accessories	Pearl Basic Jewels, Midnight Muse Stitched Satin ribbon, Linen Thread
Tools	Scallop Trim border punch, Houndstooth embossing folder

Project Details

Stamps

Flowering Flourishes, Happiest Birthday Wishes

Cardstock & Papers

Whipser White, Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze, Paisley Petals dsp

Ink

Midnight Muse

Accessories

Pearl Basic Jewels, Midnight Muse Stitched Satin ribbon, Linen Thread

Tools

Scallop Trim border punch, Houndstooth embossing folder

Project Details
Stamps	Snow Swirled
Cardstock & Papers	Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry and Basic Gray
Ink	Lucky Limeade
Accessories	Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Tools	Scallop Trim border punch, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

Project Details

Stamps

Snow Swirled

Cardstock & Papers

Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry and Basic Gray

Ink

Lucky Limeade

Accessories

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Tools

Scallop Trim border punch, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder