Handmade Bookmarks

We went to Portland, OR in October and I made a point to save any papers, tickets or memorabilia that I came across there. Trips are a great time to gather unique scraps that I can later incorporate into handmade projects. I found a really sweet neighborhood flyer in Lower Burnside and a few weeks ago I transformed that into a notebook for my friend Kimberly. Today, I used train tickets, business cards and rubber stamps to make bookmarks for Cameron and myself. It was very easy.

Originally, I had been using the train tickets as bookmarks alone, but they’re so thin and, unless they are sticking out of the top of the book, they get lost in the pages on their own. I decided to reinforce the tickets and glue them slightly to cardboard cards that I picked up at Stumptown Coffee. Then, on the backside I stamped each of our initials. Mine is above, obviously. My “A” is a little off, I know. Such is handmade.