I’m unemployed and have basically zero income, so Christmas presents are taking a little ingenuity to come up with this year. I have quite a collection of bibliophile friends, so this year I am turning to bookplates as a fun and relatively inexpensive gift.
Here is a bookplate I designed for one of my really good, long-tme, long-distance friends. His favorite animal is apparently the moose and his favorite color is forest green (well, he is from up north…).

I printed these out on Avery White Full Sheet Labels, but you could also print them out on nice cardstock and just paste them into the fronts of your books.

Here’s a
link to my Flickr page for a higher resolution file for a full 8.5x11” sheet of these bookplates.
Thanks to Maritha at
Victorian Vignettes for the frame, and to Karen at
The Graphics Fairy for the lovely moose.