craft ideas for making bookmarks

hi! i'm karen for expert village. now let'smake our ribbon bookmarker. what you'll need for the ribbon bookmarker is 2 pieces of ribbon.you want to be larger than the other. we're going to be sewing this on the sewing machine,but if you'd like you can sew this by hand. it would be simple with an in and out stitch,but the sewing machine is quick and easy. you also need a piece of a stiff plastic.this is recycled from an old plastic folder. you'll want to make sure that if it's goingto show through the ribbon that it looks fine so if you use something colored. this oneis clear, which would be great for anything. if you use something colored, you want tomake sure that if it shows through the ribbon

that it looks nice. we'll put that aside fornow. the first thing we're going to do is

decide how long we want our bookmark to be.i think probably 8 inches is good size. i'm going to cut this a little bit longer. i'llprobably cut both of our ribbons to about 9 inches. just cut that. cut them both thesame size. put that aside.