cooking ala mel: DIY Heart Bookmarks

As I was doing my daily blog reading, I came upon a post at Good Life Eats about DIY bookmarks that she had been eying up. I immediately fell in love with the corner heart bookmarks over at Craft and Creativity and set to work immediately. I had free time since I only have class at 4 on Thursdays, so this was one of those things that I just jumped on. I had all the supplies, and it looked super easy and cute.

I kept the leftover pages that I cut out when I made my Kindle cover, so I decided to peruse those cut out pages for some of my favorite sections of Pride and Prejudice to cut out and put onto these bookmarks. I had a lot of fun leafing through them; I always love rereading a little bit of Elizabeth and Darcy.

I have a huge collection of pastel notecards and envelopes from a set from Target that I purchased with my mom for my graduation party invitations back in high school. I love using them.

I love how these turned out! They took me about an hour total, but that included going through my stack of Pride & Prejudice pages. If you use some patterned scrapbook paper, it would take much less time!

DIY Heart Book Marks

What you need:

envelopes (2 bookmarks per envelope) scissors

1 sheet of copy paper glue or mod podge

book pages or scrapbook paper pencil & eraser

First, fold the sheet of copy paper in half diagonally. Draw an arc in the corner of the paper to create the heart. Cut out the arc and unfold. You now have your pattern to trace.

Trace the pattern lightly onto the corners of the envelopes with a pencil.

Cut out the hearts, and erase any pencil marks.

Take the sheet of copy paper, unfold it, and refold it in half diagonally so you have a corner that has not yet been cut. Fold the pattern you already made and trace it in the corner of the copy paper. Remove the pattern and draw another arc below the line that you traced, for the smaller heart for your design. Cut it out for the pattern of your smaller heart.