Bookmarks and Bookplates

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Label Your Books with Book Plates - Save Your Page with a Book Mark

If you love to read and collect books, you probably have a collection of special bookmarks and your own personal bookplates or library labels for your book collection. Bookmarks that hold our place between the pages of a book or magazine - gently keeptrack of where we left off reading. Book labels, or bookplates pasted inside the cover of a book identify the owner or library home of a book.

Book lovers often label their books with book plate labels that may say "Ex Libris" and their name. Many bookmarks and bookplates are small works of art, similar to artist trading cards. Treasured art bookmarks and book labels often have a special picture or border decoration.

This lens provides tips on finding bookmarks and bookplates you can print or buy, plus designs, tips and patterns for making your own unique bookmarks and bookplates.

Bookmarks and book labels for children encourage reading and a love for books. Making bookmarks is a popular kids craft, and many adults enjoy making their own personal bookmarks from paper, fiber, greeting cards and ribbon.

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Bookmarks to Print and Craft - Gifts for Readers and Book Lovers 

Artistic Placeholders Save Your Page and Your Book

Bookmarks are an inexpensive yet thoughtful gifts you can make for anyone. You can design a bookmark and bookplate that matches the theme of a book you're giving as a gift, or you can make a bookmark that relates to the gift recipient's hobby, interests or favorite things. My mother loves to garden, so I designed a set of Spring Tulip Bookmarks .

My granddaughter is just beginning to read and building her own library, so I'm sending along a sheet of Valentine Bookmarks with her Valentine's Day card.

valentine bookmarks book mark printable craft sheet

Bookmark and Book Plate Gift Ideas 

Make Your Book Gift Special by Adding a Bookmark and Book Label

Bookmarks are an inexpensive yet thoughtful gift for anyone who reads. You can find a set of bookmarks and bookplates as a gift for just about any book lover and in thousands of themes, materials and sizes.

Think about what the recipient enjoys - cooking, gardening, sewing - or design your bookmarks and labels around a holiday theme. Select a matching bookmark and bookplates to accompany a book you've chosen as a gift - use the bookmark as the gift tag and the memory of your gift will last for years.

Father's Day Bookmark Printables 

Father's Day Printable Bookmarks

6 printable bookmark designs, 1 coloring bookmark

Printable Bookmark Craft Pages 

More bookmarks to print, cut out and use

These bookmark crafts are free to print and make on your own. If you love to read, or want to encourage a young reader, a bookmark is the perfect craft or gift. Don't forget you can use a bookmark as a gift tag, too.
Printable Bookmark Craft Sheets - Holiday Themes to Print, Cut, Color

Free printable holiday bookmark craft sheets for family crafts or classroom arts and crafts, a free coloring and cut paste activity.

printable holiday bookmarksst patricks day shamrock bookmarks


Print and Cut Bookmark Crafts     Shamrock Bookmarks

The Paperback Stash: Printable Bookmark Links
A collection of links to printable bookmarks compiled by Erin at the Paperback Stash.
Kid Goodies - Bookmarkers
8 collections of free printable bookmarks in PDF format.
Free Printable Bookmarks
Free printable 2-sided bookmarks with exclusive work by sketch artist John Fisher, vintage fine art and more.
Cup Cake Bookmark - Printable
Lovely luscious pink cupcake bookmark, ready to print and cut out. Free for personal use only.

Mother's Day Bookmark - Roses and Loving Quote 

Roses and Quotation Mother's Day Bookmark

Printable quotation bookmark. Print this full color bookmark on heavy weight photo paper for gorgeous results. Laminate and add a silky ribbon tassel. Quote reads "The Mother's Heart is the Child's Schoolroom" printed over a background of lovely roses.

Recycle Crafts - Make Bookmarks from Cards, Calendars, Gift Wrap 

Recycle Cards, Wrapping Paper and Calendar Pictures into Bookmarks

Cut up old greeting cards to use the pictures and the card stock to make bookmarks.

Cut scraps of gift wrap and glue them to scraps of greeting card backs.

Cut up the pictures from old calendars and paste them onto slightly larger pieces of cut up greeting cards. You could also use this idea to craft a collage bookmark.

Bookplates - Artistic Name Labels for Your Library 

Bookplates were first used in Germany after the introduction of moveable type and book printing presses. The practice of sticking a label with the library owner's name and a bit of art or coat of arms took off from there and was very popular. Today book lovers and libraries still affix bookplates to books to identify and adorn the inside book cover (front or back).

Childrens bookplates encourage young readers to build a personal library beginning in childhood, and they instill a sense of love and respect for books at an early age.

If you love to read, you probably have a collection of books you love, and loan books to family and friends. Adding a bookplate to the inside cover of your books reminds borrowers where to return your treasured volumes when they've finished reading.

Art nouveau bookplate labels

Bookplate Designs and Collections 

Ex Libris (from the library of ...)

You can make book plates from antique and new design bookplate collections and pictures available on the Internet. Older book plate label designs offer a history of ownership in vintage book collections, while new bookplates identify books from libraries of all types and sizes.
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
Random thoughts from a passionate bookplate collector. Lots of beautiful illustrations of antique bookplates.
Northwest Native American bookplates and bookmarks
Personalize your library with these beautiful and authentic bookplates and bookmarks, each featuring an important animal figure in Northwest Native American legend. Customize your bookplates with your name. Or, give them away as gifts!

Booklovers Gift Bookmarks 

Wedding favor, office gifts - bookmarks make the ideal small gift

Wood Bookmark Set of 12 with Fabric Covered Box

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Set of twelve hand painted wood bookmarks with cutout designs, 4" x 1" with satin tassels.in a lovely case.

Fabric and Fiber Bookmarks to Craft 

Knit, crochet, sew, macrame, embroider or quilt a treasured bookmark for yourself, or make a bookmark gift for a book-loving friend or family member.
Crochet to Go: Flower Bookmark
A quick, use-up-some-leftover-yarn project.
Knitting Bookmarks
Free patterns for easy to knit bookmarks.

Book Embosser - Mark Books, Papers, Certificates 

Personalized with your name or desired text. Precision crafted to give crisp impressions on envelopes, stationery, greeting cards, books, photos, foil labels

Library Book Embosser - Great Gift Idea

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Copper Plated Metal Bookmark Craft 

Squiggly metal bookmark measures 3.35 Inches and is ready for you to decorate. Great craft project for kids and adults. Makes a lovely wedding or birthday party favor.

Copper Plated Metal Bookmark - Fun Craft Beading Project 3.35 Inches (2)

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Hook that hangs over binding has 18 Gauge, 8mm open jump ring, ready to dangle any assortment of personal charms and beads.

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Design and Print Bookmark Craft Sites for Kids 

Halloween Bookmarks - Bats, Boo and Candy Corn for Trick or Treat!
Free printable Halloween bookmark craft sheet makes 3 colorful Trick or Treat bookmarks or gift tags.
Bookmark Gifts & Craft Projects
Free printable bookmarks and coloring bookmarks to print, cut and give as a thoughtful gift to dad, mom, grandma, grandpa or teacher for father's day, mother's day or any gift occasion.
Free Printable Bookmark Craft Sheets
Free printable kids bookmarks with love, wildlife, reading is cool and holiday themes.
Bookmark Factory--National Geographic Kids Activity
Make bookmarks for yourself and your friends. Write your own text and choose different designs, objects, borders, and backgrounds. When you are finished, print them.
Animal Rights Bookmarks to Print
Free Printable Bookmarks with animal rights related illustrations and high resolution images are available for download as pdf files from the Mirage Bookmark website.
USGS Learning Web :: Explorer :: Playtime :: Download Bookmarks
Bookmarks to print from The Learning Web, a portion of the USGS website dedicated to K-12 education and life-long learning.
Pirate Bookmarks to Color
free printable templates for pirate bookmarks
Kids Crafts Gift Crafts: Bookmarks
Kids Crafts Gift Crafts: Bookmarks These kids crafts bookmarks are simple enough once you have made them a few times.

Bookmarks for Kids to Make 

Encourage Reading and Prevent Damage to Bindings

You can encourage kids to read by having them make colorful bookmarks for themselves and as gifts for friends and family. Bookmarks make ideal party favors and craft activities, plus they offer a creative way to use up bits of leftover craft papers, card stock and trimmings.

Younger children will enjoy decorating a coloring bookmark, then pasting it onto card stock to make a personal bookmark or gift.

Bookmarks are popular favors for kids parties, and as treats for Halloween, summer camp activities or as a small extra tucked into a birthday card. Some bookmarks can even be used as a gift tag - simply write your personal message on the back and the tag becomes a bookmark to treasure for years.

Reading is Cool Bookmarks to Print and Cut Out

Baby Seal Printable Bookmarks - endangered animals print and cut bookmark craft sheet

Bookmark Crafts -Print and Cut Bookmark Crafts Projects for holidays including Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Grandparents Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day,Father's Day

Kwanzaa Bookmarks - Happy Kwanzaa harvest corn bookmark sheet

Childrens Bookplates - Encourage Kids to Love Books and Build Their Own Library 

My Home Library offers a wide assortment of kid-favorite bookplates. Some bookplates are original designs by kids - both color and black and white plates are included in the collections.

Reading is Fundamental bookplate designs feature fun characters on free printable bookplates for kids (some to color in, and some already in color).

Bookhive offers lovely full color childrens bookplates designed to print on Avery labels.

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Your Thoughts and Greetings About Bookmarks and Book Plates 

How do you save your page in a book, or keep track of your books from your personal library?

Please leave a comment or suggestion for this bookmarks and bookplates lens.

k87 wrote...

what a nice idea(wani)

ReplyPosted July 08, 2009

KaraLynnRussell wrote...

Great lens! I'm a librarian and I think I will print out some of these for kids to make at my library. My own kids know that the quickest way to irritate me is to leave their books laying open, face down. Or almost as bad, dog ear the pages.

I have a large collection of r bookmarks myself. Any ideas on displaying booksmarks?

ReplyPosted July 02, 2009

Wysiwigs wrote...

What a fun collection of ideas! I use address labels sometimes on books and videos (if I'm in a hurry to lend it :o) otherwise I print my own. Great lens.

ReplyPosted June 25, 2009

annalaurabrown wrote...

Wow these are beautiful and I learned all kinds of new information. I am going to favorite this one and come back often.

ReplyPosted June 16, 2009

AbbasAbedi wrote...

Very useful lens. 5*

ReplyPosted June 13, 2009

 
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Reading Lovers Book Light Book Mark 

It's a light, it's a bookmark, it's a terrific gift

Zelco LED Bookmark Lite

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Not only will this handy tool mark your place in a book, it lights up the page for you when you read.

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