Vintage Tales discussion

Hey guys! This thread is about bookmarks. Do you guys collect them, make them? I do both. I'm planning on making and sending my friends I do Christmas cards with a bookmark this year with their Christmas card gift that I'll make for them. I love putting a bookmark I have into a book.

Thanks elizabeth. The ones I've made I have stretched a picture from my computer to bookmark size then I print it out and laminate them with the scotch 4x6 self-laminating pouches. I would like to try and do my own art too and do it that way too. I got a book club friend that I did some bookmarks for her by microsoft paint and I am going to send them to her via email to print out since she is from another country. You can get the scotch 4x6 self-laminating pouches at walmart. They have some for $6 for a pack of 6.

I crocheted some bookmarks that my English teacher in high school said he wanted one year. I've done it a couple of times when I need a new one or to give away as a gift. But sometimes I just shove a pen or cellphone or once even another book in there if I need to mark my place quickly to go do something else, haha.

What a great idea, Amber. The last bookmark I made was actually a cloth one that I embroidered as a present to my husband.

I have a very underused laminator, I think I should at least try to get some use out of it this year! I usually make the Christmas cards I send out, but in some cases a homemade bookmark will be a better option.

Thanks for the inspiration!

I love cross-stitching, and I'd love to make some bookmarks! Perhaps I should do that one day...

No problem Lian and thanks for enjoying my idea! :)I'm doing my Christmas cards to friends and giving them a bookmark with it. and definitely do it Holly. If you can't do it with cross-stitching, homemade paper ones will suffice too. I have this book at home called .Family Fun Crafts: 500 Creative Activities for You and Your Kids that had a craft recipe for ribbon bookmarks so all you need is construction paper, scissors, and a ribbon and glue. I'm thinking of doing that with printing the image I want for my friends bookmarks off the computer stretched to bookmark size and paste it to the construction paper one. I'll laminate them too. I just need to see what my friends like so I can find something for them. I know one of my California friends' favorite holiday is Day of the Dead so I am going to make her one with the day of the dead skulls and my best friend likes horses so I am going to make a horse one for her. I don't know about everyone else yet. I have another friend who likes Adventure Time.

I've found some really awesome Game of Thrones ones...

Awesome, Holly! ^_^

The only competition I've ever won was a bookmark making competition when I was eleven! I made three mini books just out of paper, drew different covers on each & squiggled inside for text - then roughly sewed the spines with a little thread, then stuck them down on card - it was a last minute oh-no-I-forgot-to-do-my-homework panic the night before we had to hand them in, so I was gob-smacked when it won! I won a £5 book token!

Awesome Jackie! :)

Oh what wonderful ideas! I think I'll also make bookmarks for my bookloving friends for Christmas! I did it once before just for fun, and it was a personalized one with our pictures on it. This time, I think I'll do individual watercolor paintings on each bookmark, laminate it, and put a ribbon on :)

awesome Jennifer! ^_^ I hope you have fun.

I collect them like whoa, especially the soft leather ones with the fringe on one end. You can get them at pretty much every tourist place in the UK with the name of the town and an image related to it printed on one side, so my relatives over there often send me a bunch when they've been travelling. I have them from all over the place. My favourite is from Dove Cottage in the Lake District. :)

I'm going to the UK for a couple of weeks next spring (maybe summer). Now I'll be hunting down bookmarks everywhere I go, haha.

Ohh, nice! I think they usually cost just a pound or two, so it's a nice affordable keepsake to collect. :)

I'm going to set up a jar and fill it with Euros to convert to pounds just for bookmarks and books. It'll be the first time in over a year that I'll be able to walk into a local bookstore and be surrounded by books written in English and not in German, haha. German bookstores have books written in English, but, you know, it's Germany and they prefer books that are written in German.

Now I really want to buy bookmarks!

Cool everyone! I wanted to let you guys know that I always get bookmarks when I go to author signings. When I went to sherrilyn kenyon's last book signing for her book chronicles of nick inferno, she had free bookmarks that u could get of her books so I got some with a door knob cover and some postcards. She had book cover posters too but I got a devil may cry one the first time I met her which she autographed and I framed. So if authors give bookmarks of their books away, I collect them. I also got one from author kathy j marsh that I got with an autographed copy of her book The Aura of Love which is pretty good and the bookmark was from that book. If they don't, I make my own of the books I own by that author. Bookmarks are cool! :-)

I'm a great collector of bookmarks, even if now I almost read only ebook!

Awesome laurat. :-) I'm glad you enjoyed the ones I made and sent you!

Really lovely! You'll see how they come out laminated!

Awesome. When u take the pictures, can u email them to me laurat? :-)

I do both! I collect them and love to make them! I usually give bookmarks to the other members in the book clubs that I belong too for Christmas. :D
Just found some really cool Christmas bookmarks for one club and making some for the others.

Amber wrote: "Awesome. When u take the pictures, can u email them to me laurat? :-)"

Sure!

Awesome Diana and thanks LauraT! I hope everyone like your bookmarks you'll send them/make for them Diana. I need to work on mine for my Christmas card buddies soon and get their cards and letters ready.

Oh my giddy aunt. Bookmarks are the answer to EVERYTHING!! They are the presents I remembered to buy at last minute for birthdays, they are the things to buy when you have a bit of spare money, they are the things to make when you're feeling bored. Forgive my impassioned state, but I think it is an understatement to say I like bookmarks.

You may have deduced by now that I am just a teensy bit hyperactive.

I use bookmarks, but I don't make them or actively try to collect them. However, I do accumulate them, in considerable volume. Since I hate to discard or let anything go to waste, I probably have at least dozens of them in a desk drawer here at my house, piled up to the point that they take up a LOT of drawer space. Even though the cardboard ones do eventually wear out, they wear slowly; so I already have many more than I can expect to use in a normal lifetime.

We accumulate them at the library where I work, too (given by authors, found in donated books, etc.) We have a table in the entryway, and I put them there for patrons to take for free; so we've disposed of some to good homes that way. :-) Probably I should take a lot of mine from home and put them on that table for others to share. (My oldest grandson is developing into quite a reader, so I've begun to give bookmarks to him as well!)

awesome Werner!

I have a wide variety of book marks, most of which were free. My oldest is a bookmark I purchased in Austria in 1969. One of my newest is a David Bowie bookmark I purchased at the Bowie exhibit in the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto where I live.
Most of my bookmarks are freebies from bookstores, both new and secondhand. I have also found quite a few in library books.