Beautiful Motifs - and some recycling - for Paper Players 740

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. 

I started by looking at the colours in the illustration and matched them to Early Espresso, Gray Granite and Cajun Craze.

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:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. 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.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

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The Paper Players 326

The Paper Players kicks off this year with a green challenge - not the colour but to use a recycled element.

Librarians are never short on discarded library books. I have two or three that I've rescued from the discard pile because I thought they'd be useful for scrapbooking or cards. Sometimes treasure can be found in them, as it was today. In an old book on the history of fashion, I found a sketch drawing in black and white that has formed a perfect backdrop for the new Beautiful You stamp. It will be a truly unique card - unless I manage to one day discover another copy of this out of print book!

The dress and hat are paper-pieced from the Wildflower Fields DSP from last year's Sale-a-bration - so a kind of recycling. 😀

UPDATE: Delighted to be chosen as As Cut Above at The Paper Players.

Ingredients

Card: Hello Honey, Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Grey, recycle discarded library book.

Stamps: Beautiful You

Inks: Tuxedo Black, Hello Honey, Basic Gray watercolour pencil

Other: Blender pen, Black candy dot