Creating your own

Document Corners

from the December 2001 byhand newsletter

Recently, my Mom was cleaning out some stuff and she came on this package of things that she thought I might find useful... It was an ancient package of "Document Corners". I think they are to use in place of paper clips... Now, at first I wasn't sure if these had any merit and then I thought, Hmmm.... I tore one apart to see how it was made and then decided that I could decorate these as bookmarks. Hey, why not? Here are a few of my attempts.

Sorry for the quality of the scan - this is really hard to do when you don't have a flatbed scanner!!!

If you'd like to try some, I have included a printable template for you to use. You can stamp them, collage them, letter on them or just cut them out of pretty paper. The original ones were made of card stock, but lighter weight paper seems to work just fine. You might want to use a text weight if are collaging on it. I also made one out of tracing paper, so I could position it appropriately over a stamp or collage. Don't forget the back will show too.
You could give away a little set of these to friends. You could even make a little folder for them. Once I got started I was looking around at all my paper and stamps. Heaven forbid that there should be two the same!