Today I'm posting a bookmark I made for my oldest son. He's 11 and he has been an avid reader since kindergarten. I'm so happy about that. I LOVED to read when I was young...and I still do, I just wish I had more time (don't we all?) to sit down with a book. Lately, he's been reading even more. He reads while he's brushing his teeth at night, while he's walking to the dinner table, when he's supposed to be changing for a practice. I can't get upset about it though...there are much worse things he could be doing! He also made the travel basketball team this year and loves every minute of it. So I decided to make his a basketball-themed bookmark. What do you think?
The 'M' is for our town name...and the name of the team he plays for. The team's colors are green & white. I figured he'd appreciate the saying 'basketball rocks' ...he's 11 after all!...and I put his name and jersey number on the other side. When he found it, he immediately put it with his books... :-) ...but his brother saw it and put an order in for himself. I should have made an extra!
Recipe
Shadow 'M' from Birthday Bash welded together with rounded rectangle from George & Basic shapes; duplicated, flipped and welded together to make the front and back of bookmark
'RockS!' from Birthday Bash welded onto one half (placed white cardstock behind the cut)
Basketball from Sports Mania
Two 'M's' from Birthday Bash cut in white and layered over shadowed 'M's'
'AJ' and '#21' also from Birthday Bash
Patterned paper - DCWV Holiday stack
Cardstock - Recollections
Green Creative Memories marker, white Gelly Roll pen for stitching
I'm entering this bookmark into 3 challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion: Challenge #3 - Make a project for any occasion using green, white and one optional color.
The Paper Variety: Let's See Your Green - Create a project using mostly (at least 50%) green.
Cricut Cardz Challenge #64 - Create a bookmark using any Cricut cartridge and any colors.
Enjoy the weekend!
~Sharon C.
24 comments:
Such a cool idea---I need to make one for my son! He'd love it!!
Great project! Thanks for playing with CTO!
Sweet project! Great job! -Paper Panther CTO DT
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Great JOB! I love the bookmark! Thanks for playing with us at CTO. Kristen
Love the bookmarks, great colors and design for a boy! Thanks for joining us this week at CTO :)
Great book markers! Thanks for playing along at CTO.
Awesome!! Love these bookmarks. Thanks for playing along this week at CTO
I am loving these bookmarks, love the colors, just everything! You did a Fabulous job on the challenges!! Thanks so much for joining CCC and Celebrating the Occasion with us!
I loved this bookmark. Very good idea for an athletic kid! I'm awarding you the Liebster award. You can check it out at my blog http://slofarmgirl.blogspot.com
HeatherM
Oh these are just fantastic. Super great idea to combine a sport and reading. So glad you have an avid reader. Thanks for playing along at CCC.
What fun bookmarks! What a fun project for your athlete :) Thanks for playing along with us at CTO!
♥ Rayna
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Great bookmark! I love it! As an athlete myself, I would have loved this....I'm sure your son will, too! Thanks for celebrating with us this week at CTO!!
Maquel
http://papermaineiac.blogspot.com
Sharon this came out awesome! He must have loved it. I really love everything about it. So awesome that he still loves to read at 11. I have an 11 year old and trying to get him to ready is like pulling teeth!
Good luc with your challenges!!
Laurie
Those bookmarks are so cool! I love the letter at the top! Thanks for playing at CTO!
These are awesome!! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for hanging out with us this week at Cricut Cardz Challenge! Anita
This came out so great! They are so very cool!
Really cute bookmarks!! Better hope he doesn't show them to all of his friends or you'll have even MORE orders!! :) Thanks so much for joining us at CTO this week!!
Amy :) at www.lovetocrop.com
That is really cute!! Congrats on him making the traveling team!! Thanks for stopping by & joining us at CTO! :)
Linda
www.fancyframework.com
Your bookmarks are AWESOME!!! Honestly, they're so creative and I bet your son loves them! Both of my sons played basketball (for years - and we traveled w/them too). It was always so much fun! My oldest (at age 24) is still an avid reader! (I feel like I could've written your post ten years ago. LOL!) Thanks for playing w/us at the Paper Variety!!
from a mother of 3 boys who also LOVE reading (we are good moms!) this is awesome! what a lovely way to show your boy you love him! thanks for playing along with TPV!
Very nice work on the bookmark! What an awesome gift for your son! That is great that he has taken to reading so much and congrats to him for making the traveling team! Thanks for celebrating the occasion with us!
Wow these are just to cool!! I love how you made this. TFS
hugs,jen
jennyscards.blogspot.com
Nice job! That is such a cute idea, great bookmark. Thanks for sharing and joining us at CTO
http://www.dianamlarson.blogspot.com
Love it...I'm definitely going to have to scraplift! My nephew is addicted to basketball and reading so this would be perfect! Thank you for Celebrating The Occasion with us!
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