Make Your Own Bookmark (fall-on-the-floor-proof)

Build your own (offline) Bookmark for you, your friend for mother's day or everything else you can think of.

This bookmark will hold your book together, will spare your book and will not fall out, if your book falls onto the floor.

What you need is:

• some cardboard, a ruler, anythig you can get a hole in and you want to use as bookmark. (I used a cardboard with a printed-on ruler, you never know, when you can need a ruler.) or you cann follow this Instructable.
• rubber band or elastic thread
• a scissor, drill, or a hole puncher
• a book you read and which you can bookmark with your new bookmark
• optional: duct tape
• not optional but mandatory: instructable sticker

You can glue wallpaper on your cardboard or just print the motive you like onto stiff cardboard. Or you cann follow this Instructable. I just used duct tape to cover the advertisement on my cardboard (size and form fitted my expectations already). And finished the "design" with an instructables sticker.

Put a hole on the upper side of your almost finished bookmark.
I used a screwdriver for the hole and widened it with the tip of a scissor.

Thread the elastic through the hole. It should have double the length of your bookmark.
Go round the bookmark with the rubber band and knot bot ends together.
Cut the overlaying piece of thread.

Use your bookmark. Lay it into your book, let the elastic hang out. Close the book, and put the rubber band around the closed book. That's it.
Easy, simple but effective.

Have fun with it. And rate and comment. Also I would be pleased to see your designs.