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Heart Bookmark

This practical valentine befits your favorite bookworm. 

To make the diminutive page keeper: Create a template of a heart, about 1 1/2 inches wide. Cut out with a utility knife, and trace onto heavy card stock. Copy it at 80 percent, cut out, and trace onto decorative paper, such as wrapping or origami paper. Cut out both hearts, and use a glue stick to secure smaller patterned heart to center of the larger one; let dry. Finally, trace bottom half of inner heart with a utility knife, cutting through card stock beneath. Then your valentine can slip pages between the hearts.

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Comments

  • Kudryashka
    20 Feb, 2011

    Hello from Russia!
    Thanks for your simple and brilliant idea! I maked it for my teacher of English!

  • 1elena
    29 Jan, 2010

    Great assembly-line type project for a handful of sweet bookmarks for a teacher or avid reader! Different colors for different seasons?

  • akismom
    18 Jan, 2009

    I love this one..it's simple; I think it its best if you use this with another gift..
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  • rouxinlim
    18 Apr, 2008

    nice..i love it..

  • mpittman
    26 Mar, 2008

    Very easy and very good use for leftover scrapbook papers and cardstocks.

  • kathryn1976
    12 Feb, 2008

    This looks really easy and is a useful gift too! I can't wait to try it!

  • CraftTestDummies
    10 Feb, 2008

    This would be great to make into a card: just cut a horizonal slit in the front of the card and slip in the bookmark. Voila! Card and gift in one!

  • inclover
    3 Feb, 2008

    my friend and I made these. They were very easy. We used a craft punch for the heart instead.

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