A Visible Image bookmark for those difficult times

 Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest design team make for Visible Image. The theme for our makes this week is "with sympathy" and my brief was to make something "non card". I am sure like me you find it very difficult to make things for such a sad time and I must admit I usually make a card. However a brief is a brief so I put on my thinking cap and decided that a bookmark might be another way of expressing your empathy to someone who is bereaved. You could write some words on the back and it could be kept in a book with memories or even a religious book if they have a faith.

This is what I made

The stamp set I used is a very special one called 

Forever in your heart 

which has a very useful coordinating die

This is how I made it;

I made a blue distress ink background using tumbled glass, stormy sky and salty ocean. (Just press these inks on a kraft sheet add a mist of water and dip in your card. If you dry between the layers you will get  lots of depth). 

I cut it down to a "bookmark" size. You can choose any size you like. Mine is 5.5cm x 21cm. I then stamped the "thinking of your" sentiment from the set in summer breeze blue Versafine clair ink and clear embossed it. 

I then added stamped using the hearts randomly onto the background and coloured some of them in with silver glitter pen. 

The feather was stamped onto 150gsm heat stable vellum using Versamark embossing ink and heat embossed using white sparkle embossing powder. I then die cut it out using the coordinating die. Stamping onto vellum creates a more lifelike feather. 

I adhered the vellum to the bookmark using Glossy accents. I just added some along the "spine" of the feather as I wanted it to be as realistic as possible not just be glued flat. I actually looked up the correct term for the spine as I didn't know..it's called the rachis.. now there is a new word for the day!

Here is my finished bookmark

with a few close ups 

and 1 final photo.

It is often hard to know what to give when a person is grieving. Perhaps even buying a book and putting a similar handmade bookmark inside might show that you are thinking of them at such a tough time. 

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Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x