I was going to title this A Quick and Easy Origami Bookmark… then I had to wonder if you’d agree. It is quick for me now… with the exception of one tricky step… but the first one took me a bit. Here is a link to the Youtube video I followed…  I was going to take photos and give instructions here, but they have presented it quite well. Why reinvent the wheel??

Look how cute it is? I used typing paper here (yes… I have some of that still) and decorated it with washi tape. You can use any size paper, as long as it is kind of long and skinny.  I measured my first one out to the size used in the video, after that I tried other sizes, not really measuring.

I also tried some scrapbook paper, and less effectively some comic pages from a calvin and hobbes book (the paper works well but it’s difficult to get a pattern I want onto the heart area.)

I actually loved the little scrapbook paper one on the right… it was very short, barely longer than what you see.

You slip the bookmark between the pages, and the heart hangs over to a different page.

These stay together nicely but I liked putting a little piece of tape on the back of the heart. I mailed a few of these in cards… go try one! Let me know if it works for you!