Spooky Bookmarks

If you love scary books, what is more appropriate as a bookmark for those horror stories than these creepy bookmarks?

Supplies Needed to create this sign:

- cardboard from a cereal box
- old unwanted paperback book
- Sizzix eclips machine
- Sizzix eclips cartridge “Halloween and Scaredy Cat Alphabet” (if you do not have the eclips, use as an alternative black
  Halloween stickers or other Halloween dies)
- black paper or card
- stick glue
- contact paper (clear one-sided adhesive foil)
- black organza ribbon

Craft Pattern: Bookmark Template

Instructions:

1. Print out the bookmark shape and create a permanent template. The width of these bookmarks is 7 centimeters.
2. Trace the shape of the bookmark on the printed side of a cereal box and cut it out.
3. Adhere paperback book page to the printed side of the cereal box.
4. Die cut selected spooky motifs from the cartridge or use other alternatives such as stickers, other dies, paper punches, etc...
5. Arrange and glue the motifs onto the bookmark as you please.
6. Cover the bookmark with contact paper and cut away the excess.
7. Punch a hole through the top of the bookmark and then tie a piece of black organza ribbon through the hole.

Illustrated Tutorial: Follow these step-by-step instructions to learn How to Create Permanent Templates (scroll down until underneath the third tutorial image.

The bookmarks are quickly made using black die cut images and will add a haunting touch to your literature.

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