Harry Potter’s birthday is soon approaching. He’s going to be 40 on July 31st! In honor of his birthday, I’m joining other creatives this week to create Harry Potter crafts. Since my main focus lately has been wood, I create a laser cut wood Harry Potter bookmark.

Materials needed:

• 1/8″ or thinner wood. I’m using Baltic Birch.
• Glowforge or other laser
• Masking tape
• Embroidery floss (I picked colors that matched Harry’s house colors.)
• Harry Potter font
• Harry Potter Clip art
• Illustrator or another designing software

In Illustrator, I designed my bookmark and saved it as an svg file.

I prepped my board, covering it with masking tape to keep the give it a clean look once the laser is done.

I then uploaded my design into the Glowforge software (it’s a web application).

I changed my settings to engrave the text and clip art at the depth that I wanted it and set it to cut the rectangle and circle.

I love sitting and watching the Glowforge do it’s thing! It’s so fascinating!

Once the Glowforge was done, I removed the masking tape.

I cut my embroidery floss into ten 8″ pieces.

I gathered the pieces and folded them in half. I then threaded the folded end through the hole, moving from front to back. Then I threaded the ends through the folded piece and pulled tight to create a knot.

Then the bookmark was ready to use! I love how it turned out. I’m thinking about making more with other characters with their quotes from books!

Hope you like this laser cut Harry Potter bookmark!

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Until next time……