 everyone married espresso press design thank you for visiting sorry I'm late but I'll get to that in a second today is the stalking suffer Christmas bookmarks I'm gonna show you how I did my packaging and how to make a basic bookmark but I want you to I want to show you today that these can be any size any shape and the reason I'm late is my punch broke and I had to order a new punch an eighth hole punch but it gave me the chance to do one with for those of you that might not have an eighth hole punch and I picked up some different elastic at the Dollar Tree which surprisingly I found and I wanted to try it with a different size elastic that was a little flatter so my misfortune gave me an opportunity to come up with a size that's a little more what's the word uniform with a quarter inch hole hole punch that most of you might already have so what you're gonna need is your paper punches of course some elastic now my I have a bunch here that are already cut and when I first saw someone making these their length of their elastic was 14 and a half inches so I have some little marks here on my table that I could do these in a production line so to speak for the craft show maybe Sunday or Monday if I get time I'll do the Boho Beads bookmarks book thongs so what you're gonna need this is a perfect opportunity to get out your paper Christmas paper paper scraps that you might have had lying around from last year which I did and use that you can also use packaging and or you can use folder or you can just layer scrapbook paper for my packaging I use this little Debbie because it's almost four inches and the back is already white so I don't have to cover the back so I'm gonna do this in two parts this is just some Christmas junk mail wrapping paper Christmas cards anything you want to make these and they are gonna make a great little stocking stuffer I always do bookmarks because now that my daughter's older we have a rule in the house and it is four gifts something you want something you need something to wear something to read and what's in the stocking and always with something to read I make little different type bookmarks and they go with the books so if it was up to my husband he would have four books but okay I'm just gonna do the basic circle today and the basic packaging so that you can learn of course the packaging can be modified now it's best if you just keep a little template that makes things go faster so I'm just gonna do and you'll need your punches your circle if you're using a punch and I have been using my decorative three corner punches to make the corners on the packaging and some of these I did fancy corners so my whole punch is one and a half so I'm gonna do one with packaging here and give you a tip if you don't want to ruin your punch like I did try not to put packaging and two pieces of scrapbook paper because that's a little hard on your punches and it might not even get into like this one because it's too thick so if you're gonna use packaging keep at least one of your papers either wrapping paper or super thin flimsy card stock that way you'll have the best results so I guess I'll just do a Santa Claus which I know is thin do another Santa Claus let me get one where I can get his base right in the center on the front and I think this time I'll put line cones with those on the back wrapping paper you might have to put on a piece of coffee paper or card stock to on a piece of card stock to get it to punch so yeah I was wasn't happy I lost my punch and then I had to spend my money on something utilitarian who wants to do that not me so you're just gonna glue that up oh and you might want the gold pen metallic marker or something to rim your edges or you can just use ink or you can use acrylic paint so I'm just going to glue this up but it's set a moment I'll I cover my packaging front I think I'll just keep it matchy matchy and my packaging here is two by four and my ones for the craft show I covered with book page which I think looks is appropriate but again this is going to give you a chance to use your wrapping paper or whatever else maybe I will try wrapping paper turn it off a bit of press you can make a lot of these in a hurry that should stick so it's not going to matter if it's straight these go really fast and they're they're nice what they're nice for is what I heard people say they're nice for the beach or reading outdoors because it keeps your pages from blowing around you could also emboss this if you wanted I don't know why I have a lump in there but I do it's good okay I'm gonna rim this edge I think in gold and then I'll show you how I did just use the template to make the quick falls and that elastic doesn't have a millimeter on it the one from the Dollar Tree does have it's 10 millimeter you think there was about eight yards in a package I think I got one from Walmart and one from Hobby Lobby and both were pretty much I think they were identical as far as length is about I don't know $3 maybe and I got 11 bookmarks out of the package but I'm sure most of you so now I'm going to take my template I'm just gonna mark it with this so I can see it that way even when I did my punch I might get a little little bit of gold rim around there so this is what I mean this is this is probably how I ruined my punch was trying to punch through well I I certainly got my money out of it it was from Michaels but it really wasn't it was only about a year and a half old so there you go here's your two holes you're using your template and then you're going to put it through the front so that you don't obscure your design just thread it through you can not slide it to the end as far as you can give it a nice tight pull punch make some fancy corners here or not the punch the package my template line it up another little mark once again take my scissors and make a slit through there so you can keep your elastic nice and secure as most of these didn't bend but I don't know why some of them did then you just slip your bookmark in the hole give it a twist back down through the hole there you have your cute little package actually you might rim those edges silver to a mixture of silver and gold you can go all out as much as you want you can layer them you can use die cut shapes I don't I think I must dissolve my one that was a die cut I was gonna show you that but I don't have it so I think I did sell three so that's really it guys just remember to your paper thickness so you don't over text your punch can go to town as I said you can make any shape you can layer them I forgot my book you find a book here this on a book this one I just stapled for time sake which actually does work sorry but you could put a little paper scar band on there staple it or you could just take it to your sewing machine and stitch it up or do a little hand stitch that's what I might do for these ones so there you go beautiful stocking stuffers and use up all your Christmas scraps makes a great little great little gift use up all your scraps there's a fall one so there you go I love my little book tags and I love my packaging so okay I'll see you in a few minutes here for the junk journal I'm gonna remain silent here for a couple minutes and just cut this tape in half okay I'll see you in a minute