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I made a bookmark for my daughter’s friend, Simone’s birthday. She works in a biology lab in college and catalogues beetles, so used a beetle theme.

Materials:

• 2 1/2 inch X 9 inch piece of thick watercolor paper
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Black Sharpie Pen
• Glue Stick
• Watercolor paints
• Stickers of insects of your choice or photo cutouts from a magazine or calendar
• Decorative paper or calendar page for backside of bookmark
• Beading wire
• Beads of your choice (I used seed beads and one turquoise bead, one special glass bead at the top)
• Crimping Beads
• Crimper
• Laminator (I went to Fed Ex Copy Center for this)
• Hole Punch

How to make your bookmark:

• Draw a 1/2 inch border around the front of the bookmark with a pencil
• Paint the person’s name inside the bookmark. I chose to divide the space evenly by six for the number of letters in the name.
• Paint the background with watercolor paints.
• Draw letters of the name with pencil and color them with the Sharpie pen. I copied a font I found on line.
• Cut out the insect shapes or use stickers and glue down along the border.
• Cut out coordinating decorative sheet the size of the bookmark and glue to back.
• Take your bookmark to a laminator.
• Laminate and trim.
• Use hole punch to punch hole at the top.
• Seal bead wire with a crimp bead and add beads of your choice.
• Loop top of string through punch hole and seal with a crimping bead.