Shannon, from Thoughts and Thimbles trimmed a page from the book to put on the back of her bookmark. Love that. To see how she did it, click here for the tutorial.
One of the first bloggers to make these bookmarks received a lot of criticism from outraged book lovers who thought she was destroying perfectly good books. She edited her blog post to say that no good books were destroyed for this project, just those whose pages were so decayed that they were no longer usable.
But what if you don't have any books that are sufficiently decayed and ready to be disassembled to make a bookmark? Mel from Mel Stampz has come up with the perfect idea. So great in fact, that when you see it, you will slap your forehead and say "Why didn't I think of that?"
You see, Mel took photos of pretty books, and then made bookmarks out of the photos. Now she can enjoy her books and the bookmark too. Go here for her tutorial.
While searching for the original bookmark tutorial, I came across several other ideas for bookmarks. I found some neat ideas and contacted the bloggers, but either they weren't interested in having their photo featured here, or my email to them went to spam. And since I have made a stand against copyright infringement, I won't post any photos without permission. So here are some of the other things you can search for if you would like to make things out of book spines. If you make something, write a tutorial and let me know if I can feature it.
One blogger had enough book spines to weave them into a table mat. She, however, declined to have her project featured here.
There were a lot of pictures on pinterest for book spines glued to one side of a wood box and placed into a bookshelf for pretty storage. I never did find a blog with a tutorial for that though. I think the photos came from etsy.
There were other pictures on pinterest for framed book spines. So simple and yet a great look. I couldn't find the source for those either. They were pinned from etsy also.
