For this week's Friday Challenge #023, we want you to bookmark it ... MAKE a bookmark, that is! While we certainly hope you all have our site bookmarked in your favorite websites, we're talking about the good old fashioned bookmarks used in books! So your challenge this week is to make a bookmark for either a child or an adult and show us your creativity with your JustRite stamps!
JustRite design team member, Stephanie Kraft, made this fabulous perforated detachable bookmark card -- what a clever idea for gift-giving!
Be sure to visit Stephanie's blog to see the front of her beautiful card and to find all the details of how she made it, using the daisy from our My Garden stamp set and one of our new Nested Sentiment sets!
My sample today uses our large oval By The Sea set and was a different, fun type of bookmark to make -- a corner bookmark!
I started with a 4-inch square envelope and just cut it in half diagonally, to form my corner pocket base. Then I just covered the front and back of the envelope with patterned paper. Next, I stamped the shells with Versamark ink onto kraft cardstock and heat embossed the image with white detail embossing powder.
I colored the image with Copic markers (colors listed below), including over the white embossed lines. Just be careful when coloring over the embossing, as the markers may deteriorate the embossing powder, breaking it down and possibly damaging your marker tips. If the embossing powder does get on your marker tip, just wipe it off on a scratch piece of paper ... I happened to get lucky with mine and it worked out okay!
I edged the bottom of my bookmark with Martha Stewart's shell border punch, did some faux stitching on all sides of the bookmark and then tied some crinkled silk ribbon at the top that I hand dyed with Copic Various Ink Refills (R20 & R32) to match the colors of the shells.
This week's challenge winner will receive a set of our new Clear Horizontal Stamper-(Set of 2) ($23.95 value), Victorian Nested Frames ($14.95 value), All Occasion Nested Sentiments ($14.95 value), for a total package valued at almost $54!
Honorable Mention winners will receive a Clear Horizontal Stamper-(Set of 2) - ($23.95 value)!
CHALLENGE RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website. (Please see our blog post HERE for important information about our gallery on Flickr, how to upload to it, and another opportunity to win some JustRite products!).
You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post. Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily. (Links that are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted). If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_023 <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the Tag section of the Flickr gallery.
You will have until next Thursday, June 24th at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as our company website gallery (with designer credit given and blog or gallery linked) or any possible advertising.
We can't wait to see your creative bookmarks!
{Corner Shell Bookmark designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stampers®: JB-09755 By The Sea
Dies & Punches: Martha Stewart shell border punch; Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities die set
Paper: Cosmo Cricket DeLovely 6x6; Memory Box Kraft
Ink: Tsukineko Versamark; Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink; Copic markers: E31, YR02, R32, BG13, W3 and Copic Various Ink Refills-R20 & R32
Accessories: Stampin' Up White Detail Embossing Powder & Chocolate Chip marker; May Arts white wide silk ribbon; Making Memories paper piercing tool; embossing heat tool
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