Get some flower power
You can glue together sheets of craft paper, cut them to size and then glue whatever you want on them, be it beads or mirrors or stickers of various kinds. I had a great time playing around with the pale yellow, baby pink, peach, pale brown and baby blue thread flowers and more. You could try playing with colours of your choice. Grab your pair of craft scissors, some satin, and glue and get started.
Get creative
Pick up some flower stickers and if you get lucky with the right stationery store, you could find cardboards of varying thickness and colours. Or if you want to do something different, get a marker, a pair of doll-eyes and sketch out an owl on a one inch and half wide, five inches long piece of cardboard. Glue the eyes just above the nose.
More inspiration
To create bookmarks, you need cardboard pieces or card paper, a paper trimmer and/or a pair of paper scissors, flower stickers, Mod-Podge (all purpose craft glue) or Fevicol and a ruler (depending on your measurement preferences).A corner rounding machine would be helpful. Trim the cardboard to a strip one-inch wide and six inches long. Peel the flower from the sticker sheet of plastic and glue it to one end of the paper. Now pick up another flower and use the glue-dot that comes with it (centre-black core) in such a way that it sits against the earlier flower. To avoid wear and tear, add bits of glue between the two flowers and press their rears against each other. You’re done. Keep in mind, that when you glue together craft paper or cardstock, you press it under a pile of books, or place it beneath your couch cushions. Bookmarks of this size can be used as gift tags too. So here they are, two simple bookmarks - one with the flower stickers, and another, with doll-eyes.
Lacy bookmarks
Wanna get dressy? Remember the time lace-work was in? When all things floral and thready meant style? Embroidery and lace-work invaded our homes - on frocks, curtains, teapot covers, tables? These days, you only need some inclination to patch up your clothes, and the threaded stuff comes ready-made! During one of those trips to the craft shop at Adyar, I came across sets of thread-patch flowers that one could patch on to dresses - more inclined towards embroidery. I did not quite know how they would fit into my bookmarks, but bought them on instinct. And then put them on bookmarks!
Courtesy Radhika Malladi who blogs at http://www.imprintshandmade.com