Welcome everyone to a new week at The Paper Players! We had some wonderful entries last week for LeAnne's sketch and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all come up with for this week.
I'm delighted to be the hostess this week and I hope you'll be excited by the theme I've set which is to recycle something or re-purpose something in your creation.
I have a small stash of deleted library books, picked up for next to nothing at sales, chosen for the interesting text or illustrations. One that has repaid the pittance price many times over is a broken-spined, tired looking "Book of Illustrated Fashion".
I've cut down a reproduction of an advertisement from November 1899 showing off the latest fashions for ladies. As gorgeous as they look, I imagine they were not at all comfortable to wear! It was however, a lot of fun turning them into cards.
Because I wanted these fabulous clothes to be the star of the show, I kept the treatment very simple. I matted each half of the advertisement onto a piece of Gray Granite, after trimming down to a card front size. The card base is Early Espresso and then I used Cajun Craze (a colour I rarely use) for the card front.
In keeping with the vintage feel of the images, I used the new Damask Designs embossing folder. I stamped the sentiments from Beautiful Motifs in Early Espresso onto Gray Granite and cut them using a small die from Perennial Postage.
To ground the sentiment, I added some Gray Granite twine from the Baker's Twine Essentials pack. To keep with the vintage feel, I added in a trio of Pressed Flower motifs as embellishment.
I can't wait to see what creative ways everyone recycles something for this week's challenge!
You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players page.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
Jan Clothier - You are here
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