Bookmark Collector

I’m a day later than I normally like to post the week’s collections, but here are the bookmark related links that I’ve found from February 28 through March 6.

Enjoy!

Bookmarks In the News

Articles:

Laine Farley over at BiblioBuffet has a fascinating interview with a librarian and a graphic artist from City College of San Francisco (California) about a bookmark design program at the college’s Graphics Department – Link

Using a postcard as a bookmark revisits the message every time the book is read, by Susan S. Emerson at the Gloucester Daily Times – Link

Although the date for entering has come and gone, I want to point out this very clever promotion at The Literary Housewife Review, where she was putting together a bookmark a month club – Link

Diann Anderson discusses making bookmarks with samples of her art as a way of marketing her artwork – Link

Contests :

The Pickens County Library System (South Carolina) is holding it’s annual bookmark design contest – Link

Contest Winners:

Here are pictures of the finalists and winners of the Washoe Education Association’s (Nevada) Bookmark Art Contest – Link

Swaps:

A handmade fabric bookmark exchange, at Hooked on Exchanging – Link

Handmade bookmarks with classic movie themes are the subject of this swap over at Swap-bot – Link

Make Your Own Bookmark

Here’s a tutorial with a lot of good photos on making a corner bookmark with folded paper, by Jana Emmert at Stamp on This – Link

A similar tutorial for a corner bookmark but with a video, at Dawn’s Stamping Studio – Link

Instructions for making a paper flower as the ornament on a ribbon bookmark, by Loralee at No Fuss Fabulous – Link

Bookmarks For Sale

A magnetic bookmark with the picture of a curios pig, available from Backyard Chirper – Link

Etsy:

A Gorjuss bookmark, this one named Hear No Evil – Link

On-Line Bookmark Collections

Punto de Papel:

Maria Rosa shows a set of bookmarks with some beautiful drawing out of Alice in Wonderland – Link

Here are a set of bookmarks with pictures from the movie and illustrations from the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Link

And here are some more bookmarks with illustrations from the Harry Potter books – Link

Mondopunt:

More bookmarks from the 2009 International Tourism Trade Fair in Madrid, this set includes quite a selection from Palestine – Link

Hand Made Bookmarks:

The third entry in this collection is a hand made paper bookmark, by Ember at Triple the Sketch – Link

A couple of corner bookmarks, made by Sarah-Jane at Cards and a Cuppa as her response to an online challenge – Link

K. Stahler at Kay’s K9s creates miniature models of dogs, and made this head of a French Bulldog as a bookmark – Link

A nice stamped paper bookmark made as a thank you, at Peanutos-Craft – Link

Wow! An amazing set of bookmarks received as part of a swap, posted by Lay Hoon at Me Scrap – Link

Toni at Moved to the Mountains made this stamped paper and ribbon bookmark – Link