Rainbow Watercolor Bookmarks by Rosie Lopez

Rainbow Of Bookmarks!

Today we are sharing these beautiful watercolor bookmarks by Rosie!

These cards feature:
All Booked Up Stamp Set
All Booked Up Die Set
Bookmark II Die Set
Frames & Flags Die Set

Hello! It’s Rosie and I’m back with another project. This time I created a set of bookmarks and one was used on a card.

 

To start I die cut a bookmark from the Bookmark II Die Set and card panel from Neenah Solar White cardstock. I wanted to create a rainbow of color in the background so ink smooshing Hero Arts Reactive and Tim Holtz Distress inks. There are lots of ways to do this technique but I like to smoosh on my glass mat add a spritz of water and then use a recycled sheet of acetate to pick up the color and smoosh on the paper. I also don’t go in rainbow order when doing this. I start with the middle and end colors then space the other colors in between. This gives me better spacing and allows each color to dry a bit before adding an overlapping color. After that dried, I used the tiny paw print stamp from the All Booked Up Stamp Set to add subtle paw prints in coordinating colors.

 

While I waited for those inky panels to dry, I stamped and colored the other images in the All Booked Up Stamp Set. I die cut those and stacked the die cuts.

I die cut another bookmark to use on the card panel. This bookmark was too long to add to the card panel so I did some partial die cutting to shorten the bookmark. I added tiny paw prints with a light grey ink and adhered the cat die cut. The I stamped the sentiment with Versfine ink near the bottom. To finish the card I adhered the ink smooshed panel to a card base and die cut the scalloped frame from vellum with the Frames & Flags Die Set. I used a tape runner to adhere the vellum to the panel and added foam tape to pop up the bookmark.

To finish the bookmark I added another bookmark to the back that had a rainbow of paw prints. I adhered the back to the front and added the dog die cut and sentiment. I didn’t have a coordinating ribbon to I colored a pink ribbon with a black alcohol ink marker.

There you go! I hope these project give you some inspiration to create colorful bookmarks. You can find me on social media at @pocketful_of_rosie
Happy Crafting!