Bookmarks XLIV: Time Vines

No long meanderings from me today; my own clock is ticking towards deadlines rather faster than I would like.

I made this bookmark mainly for this week's challenge / 3rd anniversary celebration at The Play Date Cafe. The bit where their color scheme fit some of my paper scraps didn't really hurt either!

Of course, it also seemed appropriate to enter it in Creative Craft Challenges' 3rd Blogoversary "Three" challenge. I guess this is a good time of the year for 3rd anniversaries!

You'll notice I set the clock to 3:00; that's why I thought it was appropriate for both.

Someday I will remember to stamp intricate designs on not-intricate-designs paper. Oh well, it works well enough; at least the embossing powder is a different color than the backing paper.

I've photographed this bookmark against a page of The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber, which seemed fairly appropriate.

I'm entering this timey-viney bookmark into the following challenges:

• The Play Date Cafe: 3rd Anniversary Celebration
• Creative Craft Challenges: Three (three colors, three patterned papers, and 3 o'clock!)
• Eureka Challenge #11: Things With Wings (bird on top of the clock)
• Creative Inspirations Paints: Anything Goes

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Bookmarks XLI: Put on Your Party Hat

I loved the color scheme in the card that Katie made for Loves Rubberstamps' Sensational Sunday Inspirations post.

Plus I realized that it gave me a reason to cut into a fresh sheet of paper, which is always fun.

Going through my stamps, none of them really seemed to fit the color combination until I came to a party/Happy Birthday set. So, although it isn't really a common subject for bookmarks, I made a party bookmark.

I have a lot more use for bookmarks than I think I would for cards, see.

Originally it was just going to be the balloons and the sentiment, but I kinda messed up punching the stars in the lower right corner. So I stamped and embossed the party hat (using it as an excuse to cut into yet another new piece of paper), cut it out, colored it in to help the pattern appear, and whacked it jauntily over my mistake. To help the colors fit, I used the same pen to color a bit of one of the balloons.

Then I put some of the punched-out stars onto the hat. Originally they were both centered on circles, but the upper one seems to have shifted off a bit... oops.

It only took me 40 sets of bookmarks to figure out that hey, do you know what would make a good backing paper for photographing bookmarks? BOOKS. This one is Pippi Longstocking, at the beginning of the last chapter... where she throws herself a birthday party.

I'm entering this bookmark in the following challenges:

• Creative Craft Challenge: Three (three balloons, three stamped images, and three different papers)
• Stampalot Challenge: Punch Away (star corner punch)
• Lollipop Crafts Challenge #92: Happy Birthday
• Bearly-Mine Challenge #57: Anything Goes
• Through the Craftroom Door Challenge #40: Anything Goes
• The Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge #4: Anything Goes
• Your Next Stamp Challenge #20: Anything Goes

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