Hiya guys! Happy Sunday and to all you pops out there...
For this week’s post I thought I’d blog about what I
made my lovely pops for Father’s Day! I wanted to make a gift instead of buying one, like I
did for mama for Mother’s Day. So, I made something that he would use…a
bookmark!
Like myself, my dad prefers actual books to eBooks
and Kindles etc. so obviously a bookmark would be useful.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had a wee
shopping day last week and got a good haul of art supplies…so, I thought I’d
make use of one of the things that I bought! And this was a good wee crafty
project for it as my dad loves painting, so it was a good way of incorporating
the artiness into the making of the bookmark!
What
I used:
·
Watercolour paper (cut
to 18cm by 4cm)
· Paint brush
· Cup of water
· Aqua markers
·
Masking
tape
·
Gold
sticky back paper
·
Stamp
and ink set
Bookmark idea!
I was trying out the aqua markers to
see how they work and what I could do with them, and this was one of the ideas.
Kind of like when you have a hand written piece of paper and it gets soaked/splashed
with water and the ink goes a bit blotty.
I decided to put extra water on the
paper and hold the paper vertical so the water would run down the page, picking
up some of the colour pigment along the way. It turned out quite cool,
actually!
The Bookmarks!
DIY Bookmark
set #1!
I added a
gold accent to the watercolour design
DIY Bookmark
set #2!
Using masking
tape to create a straight clean edge between the paper and the colour!
DIY Bookmark
#3!
Using the
stamp and ink set to write out a quote about reading!
I intentionally only meant to make
one bookmark but I got a wee bit carried away and ended up with loads!
However, this is not a bad thing as
my dad has a few books on the go at any one time!!
Anyway guys, thank you SO SO much for reading! I really hope you
enjoyed this post J and I will catch you all next time!
As always, have a fab week and take care! Xxx
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