Tips for Gluing Photo Bookmarks

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Let's start by gluing down our pictures. I'm just using a glue stick. You just have to tack them down because when we laminate they won't be moving; they'll stick on there really good when you laminate. You won't have to worry about them moving around. Just a little bit of glue on the back and put that down. Now, with our gel pen, flowers are a great thing to decorate with and easy. Start with a circle and then just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I like to do a corner decoration. So make one large one, and then make a small one, and another small flower like this. Now, a little curlicue like this and then another curlicue like that is nice. A leaf you can make by drawing a little heart like this and then putting a line through it. You can pull you picture together. Make another leaf there and I'll put another leaf right here. You're just making a little heart. Then you can pull that little corner decoration together by putting just little dots. You see it defines the space and it fills in nicely. Now, I'm going to use a thicker pen. Always test on scrap piece of paper before you work on your bookmark. I'm going to use a thicker pen and make a little flower around my favorite person here. We can do also around this one. Now, we'll fill in with some other curlicues. Leaves along our curlicues here. And you see that you really don't have to be such and artist to be able to make a very pretty bookmark."