Bookmarks

BOOKMARKS

Hello everyone.  It's beautiful outside but very cold in the wind, so I think I am in for the rest of the day if possible.


Today will be a short blog about making bookmarks.


I don't have stuff like photoshop, or any other crafty type software, so I use the Apple equivalent of a document, which is called 'pages' .  In windows it is called 'document'.


So, first of all, I get up a blank document.


Then I remove all margins, so the page is edge to edge on screen.  Although I do this, when it prints it still has a small border around it, which you will see when I put up a photo.  


The next thing I do is fill the page with 6 columns, as each one will end up being a bookmark.  This way they are all the same size and width. 


So you now have a blank document with 6 columns.


The next thing to do is fill the columns with your desired patterns.  I have used designs I keep for crafting and make them all different if possible, but you can use the same design for every one.  I have found that when I take a jpeg or pdf image of a design, it only wants to fill one bookmark, so this gives you a great opportunity to experiment.


Once all the designs are on, I then write the text, using the fonts on my computer.  For some reason this is not very easy to do for me, possibly something I am or am not doing.  However.  I end up on screen with the document and a second document under it.  i.e.2 pages or 2 documents ---- one with the book marks and one blank.  (I tell you this in case it happens to you too), so be aware for printing that there is one of each per page.  


Here is what I mean ............... the following two photos have been taken of the screen of my computer, so there is a little distortion on them, but it shows you exactly what I am talking about.


Here is the finished page, but you will see that is another page with it:

It doesn't matter what I try and do, I always get this.  I think it is because I removed the margins, header and footer to fit everything in.

So anyway, I then print off the page, and it looks like the one below.

As you can see it has a margin all around it, which the computer does all by itself.


The next thing to do is to cut them up and trim then, like these:

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t's at this point you can decide whether you want to laminate or decorate them in addition to what you have printed off.  I tend to punch a hole at the bottom of the bookmark, in the centre and then thread a ribbon through, just like these:

So there you have bookmarks.  


I make most of these to give away, and I have a friend that does mission work in India and for her I put scriptures on them as that is what she wants.  she then gives them to the ladies she works with on the streets etc.


I am sure there are easier ways of making them, but I am not that clever, so I just use what I know about.


Just to let you know that it is entirely up to you if you want to put the pattern on both sides.  I tend to leave them blank on the back so that people can write on them.


I hope you have enjoyed this journey into my bookmark making.


Love and hugs


Annie xxx