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Flashback Friday Butterfly Bookmark

Posted on April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 by Leen

Hello my friends and welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Butterfly Bookmark post. As promised in last Friday’s post Clear Bookmark, I will share my tutorial for the acrylic bookmarks. Let’s get right into it! 

Butterfly Bookmark

The first acrylic bookmark was so much fun; I had to make another one tonight. This time the piece of acrylic is from a Martha Stewart stamp set package. The acrylic measured approximately 7 ¼” x 3”. With the help of my Score-it board the piece is of acrylic is scored at about 3 ¾”. This will make the back of the bookmark a bit longer than the front.

Image of a piece of clear acrylic used for the bookmark.

Next, I used the 2 ¼” x 3” Classic large oval Nestabilities die to cut and emboss the cardstock. While it was still in the die, I added Antique Linen and a light touch of Tea Dye Distress ink.

Image of an oval cut from a piece of cardstock and inked with Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress Inks.

I left the card stock in the die for this step as well to keep the edges clean. I stamped some script text with Hot Off the Press “Delicate Patterns” stamp with Memento’s Rich Cocoa ink.

Oval used in the Butterfly Bookmark with a script text stamp and memento ink in Rich Cocoa.

The Butterfly

I used a Martha Stewart butterfly stamped with Jet Back Archival ink. To add the color I stayed in the Martha Stewart family and used her Tangerine dye ink pen. After fussy cutting the butterfly out, I needed to touch up the edges a bit. To do this I used my black Le Plume marker around the outer edge.

Butterfly stamped with Archival Ink in Jet Black used to decorate the Flashback Friday Butterfly Bookmark.

This past weekend I purchased the new “Tattered Florals” Alterations die by Tim Holtz. I cut out two of the smallest flowers from some scrap paper that I’ve had lying around.

Image of a Cuttlebug die cutting machine and two small flowers from the  Tattered Florals Alterations Die by Tim Holtz.

The center of the flower is just a piece of yellow paper cut out with a paper punch. All of the layers were sponged with Antique Linen and a tad bit of Fired Brick Distress ink. Before gluing the flower together with a bit of Zig 2 Way Glue Pen, I scrunching the petals with my fingernails to give them some texture.

The two small flowers cut from the Tim Holts Tattered Florals die inked with Antique Linen and Fired Brick Distress Inks.

Again, I ran everything through my trusty Xyron sticker makers to adhere them to the acrylic bookmark.

All of the paper pieces used to decorate the Butterfly Bookmark ran through the Xyron 505 sticker machine.

And there you have it, a new bookmark for the college algebra textbook.

Photo of the finished Flashback Friday Butterfly Bookmark.

These were really fun to make. I’m always open to comments, so let me know what you think. Have you ever created a clear bookmark? Thanks for stopping by the craft room for today’s Flashback Friday Butterfly Bookmark tutorial. Have a fantastic weekend and I’ll see you again soon.


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