"Race to Read" Bookmark

Happy Thursday!  I wanted to post this before I started 'party mode'.  My middle son is turning 9 years old next week and we're celebrating with family at our home on Sunday.  Lots to do before then!  I hope everyone has a good weekend...ours should be fun!  Now....

My youngest son just entered 1st grade and is required to read for at least 30 minutes every day.  This has been challenging.  He usually wants to stop after about 10-15 minutes, so I thought I'd make him a cute bookmark to excite him about reading.  He LOVES race cars, so I used one from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge (I can't tell you how often I turn to this cart!) to decorate his bookmark.  I hope it does it's job...and makes mine a bit easier!!

Here's the front:

And the back:

I wanted to make this simple and fun for him.  Since he'll be placing it in his books, I didn't want to use any embellishments that weren't flat....or glitter...that could damage the books.  That was hard!  But I did find the perfect button to mimic the smiley stars on the bookmark...it too has a star.  Whoo hoo!  On the back, I put his name...my kids love to see their names on their stuff!

I entered this project into both Fantabulous Cricut's "Button Up for School" Crawl challenge and Crafting with Cristina's "Back 2 School" challenge.  Both challenges are to make a back-to-school project and Fantabulous Cricut's also requires a button somewhere on it.  Two checks!

Recipe
'race' and 'read !' - Mickey Font, welded with my Gypsy
'Daniel' - Mickey Font
'to' - Alphalicious, welded with my Gypsy
Race car & flag - image & blackout, Everyday Paper Dolls
Stars - Create A Critter
Cardstock - Recollections
Patterned paper - from my stash
Black Creative Memories marker for stitching, doodling
White Gelly Roll pen for doodling