Bookmarks for your own books - touching, exclusive

The book can be presented only to a person very close and pleasant to us. And bookmarks for books with their own hands are even more personal and therefore more expensive "trifle". And manual creativity today is a luxury, as well as reading. Such a gift will make the aesthetic pleasure of communicating with the book complete and will evoke a constant smile.

From what is at hand

If in your presentation the booklet with your own hands is a strip of colored cardboard with ornament, here are a few ideas that can be useful. The same cardboard is widely used in the fashionable form of handicrafts - scrapbooking, and several special adaptations and a set of materials - paper, beads, ribbons - will help create a gift that will not be equal.

If earlier you were not addicted to such creativity and doubt your abilities, start with a simple bookmarks for books with your own hands from ... a paper clip. Simple, clerical, but a little larger. Pieces of colored cardboard, any universal glue, scissors ordinary, figured or figured punch - this will be enough. The main part can be in the form of a heart, a flower, a circle or a triangle, with even or decorated edges. Glue fix any decorations, again of paper, perhaps, and flat rhinestones. We paste the resulting figure to the clip. You can tie a small ribbon. Such bookmarks for books with their own hands are made in the blink of an eye, and a cheerful figure (smiling sun, for example) will bring in your day one more smile.

Leather

A bookmark made from a paper clip is good as a funny "makeweight" to a gift or as a utilitarian subject "for yourself". Next, we will tell you how to make a bookmark for the book with your own hands so that it becomes an independent stylish presentation.

You need an even rectangle of thin skin the size of a ready-made bookmark. In it, make 2 longitudinal slots so that 3 equal width strips are produced. Up to both edges leave on centimeter-two. We turn "face down". Number the strips from the bottom up. At the right edge we put a label. Next, the plait in the described sequence, the strips in this case can and must be twisted:

- lane 3 is passed under the first one;

- the edge with the mark is bent and passed between the strips 1 and 2;

- strip 2 on top of strip 1;

- strip 3 on top of strip 2;

- the bottom is passed between the bands 3 and 2.

Then repeat this procedure a couple of times, only at the very beginning of the strip 1 will be located above the strip 3. You can first try on another material and make sure that the weaving itself is simpler than it seems.

Macrame

Crafts in this technique are almost "vintage". The process is quite simple and adjusts to a calm mood, because in the sorting of threads there is a special pleasure (or you do not braid the braids from fringe?). Take 8 threads, a little more than a meter, a mule or a thin cord, maybe a wool, 2 colors. We fix it very simply - we tie everything in a knot and we have threads so that the colors alternate. The leftmost (that is, the first) thread performs the right loop node, making 2 knots on each thread. To do this, the working thread is wound over the braid, wraps it around it and is pushed out from under it; The second node is executed below, then we move on to the next thread. When we finish the first row, we have the second thread on the line, it will be working. The work ends with a simple node, at the bottom we leave the tails. In the process, you can also weave beads. In the same way, you can make a bracelet and belt. If this is too easy for you, you can try and master the breeds of reps nodes.

What else?

Bookmarks for books with their own hands crochet, fold in the origami technique, embroidered on the canvas. And most importantly, that they did not remain lying idle, but became part of an almost magical act - meeting with the book.