Maissi has been kind enough to write us a tutorial on how to make these fabulous bookmarks.
Here is what you need to make a bookmark. You also need some 2-sided tape, glue dots/glue, some ink to decorate the round edges, glitter clue and scissors.
Add some ink to the round edges and glue all the papers to the front side.
Put the 2-sided tape to the backside, you can use a card or square paper to help putting the tape correctly. Glue the two round shapes together. Put the more beautiful sides of the papers on the outside.
When you are adding the image, it helps if you put the bookmark in place in the book.
Add the other embellishments and some glitter glue to the wings.
You can make all shapes and sizes bookmarks. The only limit is your imagination and the books size.
Here are some other examples:
Made by Maissi.
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Today I will show you how to get your cards to look more appealing on your blogs. I use Photoshop CS2, but this can be applied to most versions of Photoshop.
If you go through your favourite stamping blogs, you will probably find that they all have something in common; they all have nice pictures of their cards. It does not matter how talented you are, or how nice your cards look in real life, if you cannot portray this on your blog.
I will show you that you do not need a fancy camera or photography skills to do this.
Alright, lets get started.
I placed the card on a flat surface and took a picture with the camera on Auto mode. I took it from a slight angle, so I would not get reflections on the image. This is what the photo looked like, gray and not very nice.
First of all I want to brighten the picture up. By clicking the little black and white circle in the Layers window, and then choosing Levels I can brighten up the picture.
In the Levels window that pops up you will have something looking like a mountain. You want to move the black little arrow on the left hand side towards the base of the “mountain” and the white little arrow on the right, to the base of the mountain, like I have done.
Now that I am happy with the colours, I want to crop the picture to a square, because the card is square. I choose the Crop tool (C), set my Width and Height to 458 px (because that is what fits this blog). I drag a square over the card, making sure everything fits in it. Then I hit Enter. If it looks really tiny you might have to use the magnifier, Zoom Tool to zoom back in.
Let the fun begin! Select the whole image by clicking Ctrl+A.
Go to menu Edit –> Transform –> Skew
Now, drag the squares in each corner vertically and horizontally until the card fills the entire canvas. We do not want to see any of the background, but we also do not want to crop out any of the card.
When this is done, hit Enter.
Now I add a 1 pixel thick border around my image as a finishing touch.
Make sure you have black as your background colour.
Go to Image –> Canvas Size
Make sure “Relative” is checked, and just add 2 pixels to Width and Height.
Taddaa! Here is the result.
The card I used in this tutorial is made by Claudia.
