For the Love of Reading

I don't know about you but I love to read. I love to get caught up in some mystery or tale and totally immerse myself in someone else's life even if it is usually fictional. I can picture the faces, the scenes, the horror, what ever it is in that particular story and my emotions sweep me away to a far away place. I truly love the imaginative adventure.

When my kids were little I would read to them, they grew and stopped wanting that but neither of them liked to read for themselves. Finally, when each reached high school, the love of reading began to spread through them too and they are both VORACIOUS readers now. I can hardly keep up with all the downloads for their kindle & ipads. Really, it's more reasonable to buy the downloads (occasionally free even) then buy the paper books but sometimes they just want that textile feel of having the real thing in their hand, my son especially. So today I decided to make some bookmarks. Both are feminine so I will have to come up with one for my son too but I thought they could use them or give them to friends or whatever they want. More a memory of me for later in life than anything else :)

 This one has a Parisian theme. First I dabbed on TH Broken China and Wild Honey distress inks. Next I spritzed it, but it didn't blend enough so i took a wet paint brush and kind of swished it all over. I did this to both sides. I then used a script stamp and some Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa ink to make another layer. The Eiffel Tower stamp in the back I embossed with Recollections powder and TH Perfect Medium. I attached the burlap, roses, and button charm, then printed out the digi images. The adorable Easter Bunnies photo came from Altered Artifacts and the stamp and postmark from the Graphics Fairy. I attached some Offray ribbon at the top after inking slightly to age it a bit.


The next one is much the same process except I used a chippie which I painted pink, dabbed white  ink on and then sanded a tiny bit to distress. I also add some pink self stick pearls from Michael's and a Zva Creative pearl flourish. I also Mod Podged on some tissue and then to make the whole thing sturdier I Mod Podged the whole book mark. This sweet little image came from Sugar Lump Studios.

For the back I printed my business info directly over the distressed ink before I podged it.

I'm in a streak so I'll have a couple more tags or bookmarks for you tomorrow. Thanks for visiting today, go grab a book and snuggle down and have some you time!

Love ya,
~Deb~