-felt
-white embroidery thread
-paperclips
-hot glue gun
-scissors
-fabric marking pen
They are really easy and quick to make. Read on to see how I made these sweet little bookmarks.
Start by drawing your shape onto felt. To help keep the felt in place while cutting, use a straight pin to stabilize the two pieces.
Stitch a running stitch along the perimeter of the heart. It is the simplest stitch – just up and down through the felt.
Once you stitch all the way around, you can secure your thread by running your needle along the very top of the felt, pulling though and cutting off the excess. You will be gluing the heart down with hot glue, so you don’t have to worry about this string coming out.
Now that the stitching is done, you can glue the bookmark together.
Put a small dot of glue on your plain heart and glue down the paperclip. Add more hot glue over the surface of the plain heart, and very lightly press your stitched heart down on top. If you smash the two hearts together, two things will happen: hot glue will ooze out of the sides, and you will be able to see the outline of the paperclip. Pressing lightly keeps the surface smooth and pretty.
You may have already noticed the sweet cards that these bookmarks are clipped to. Since Photoshop tends to send me into fits of hysteria, I asked Mique to design a card for these bookmarks so that they can be given as Valentines. She, of course, came up with something fabulous with very little help from me.
Download your Homemade Valentine bookmark cards for 30days subscribers and personal use only. Thanks!
Enjoy stitching up these little hearts and spreading the love this Valentine’s Day!
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What a sweet little card and gift for Valentine’s Day! I am pinning this so I can remember when I am making my cards for this year :) Thanks for sharing!
Very cute!
These are adorable!! Any chance you could share what colors of felt and where you got them from? They look like they match perfectly!
Hi Haley! I got the felt on papertreyink.com. I think these are the colors I used: Simply Chartreuse (green), Raspberry Fizz (pink), Ocean Tides (blue), Harvest Gold (yellow).
Hope this helps!
Thanks! One more thing. I am trying to print these out and it keeps cutting off. Did you scale to fit?
LOVE these…might try to whip some of these up while the sicko kiddo is napping. thanks for the tut and the printable!
Loving the new look Mique!! :)
These are super adorable…what a fun and nice alternative to sweets! Thanks for the great idea! Happy day!
love this idea!
These are adorable!!! Thank you for the “how to” and printables!!!
audrey
Oh man do these look amazing! What a great idea. I hope you will link this up to I Heart Projects Linky Party.
http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/2012/01/i-heart-projects-linky-party.html
Love these !
And I forgot to say Thank you!
these are so sweet! thanks for sharing. :)
these are so sweet. I love them. great job. winks, jen
These are too stinken cute! Loving the new blog look.
So adorable!! =)
Stop, these are sooooo cute! I need this, I keep losing my bookmarks!!
Hi Allison and Mique! I just loooove these! I featured them on my blog today! Come check it out and grab a button if you like!
http://missloviecreations.blogspot.com/2012/01/these-are-few-of-my-favorite-things.html
Adorable idea! Love the colours together.
what a clever, easy, and fun idea. i featured it on my friday blog fav today. i think it would be fun to make a bunch of these and hand them out to people who make you happy the week of Valentine’s Day! http://www.ourlittlegems.com/2012/01/blog-fav-handmade-heart-bookmarks/
LOVE these! Thanks for sharing the cute printable. I pinned this and shared it on my facebook page :)
Kara
http://www.mineforthemaking.com
These caught my eye right away! So simple and practical. Love that!
Jamie
These are so sweet! I don’t know if I’ll have time to make any to post, but there is always next year! ;)
Yes, there is ALWAYS next year. ;) Thanks for the comment.
This is so wonderful. This is truly how you nurture a love of reading. I’m trying to get my kids to read more and stay off of their gadgets. It’s stuff like this that keeps them motivated. The bonus is. .every time you go back to your book, you know someone loves you. this is coming from a certified teacher!:0)
I need to get my kids off their gadgets as well- it gets overwhelming with all the “stuff” they have. I love that you said- “every time you go back to your book, you know someone loves you.” Yay for awesome teachers!!
Whenever I mention teacher, I spell something wrong. Mique, can you fix that? LOL I can retype if it’s easier to delete.
Ha! I fixed it. ;)
These are adorable! And so easy, that I’m thinking it would be a fun project for little helpers as well. I’m also thinking that if the done carefully, you could just thread the paperclip through the stitches in the point of the heart as well, and avoid having to use the hot glue gun (I inevitably end up burning myself whenever I use one- lol)
Love this idea! I just made a few today to give as valentine gifts to my friends and they couldn’t have been easier! Thanks for the detailed instructions!
Fabulous! I received this as a sweet Valentine this year and searched to find you so I can make them next year…love it!
Thanks so much for the cute idea! I made these for my son’s girl friends! They loved them!
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I love these – so cute! I may make some of these for Mother’s Day or an end of the year teacher gift!
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