Vintage Children's Cards
As part of today's Featured Stamper challenge, there was a request to send some blank cards to Shellapoo for her stash of cards she sends to hospitalized children. I loved this week's CPS Sketch because it has lots of room to feature a large design, which was perfect for these fun illustrations from discarded vintage children's books.
This illustration is from "Stand back," Said the Elephant, "I'm going to sneeze!" by Patricia Thomas with illustrations by Wallace Tripp. I used text from the book as the sentiment and added the stamped laugh sentiment, which is highlighted with a little sparkle pen.
This black & white illustration is from Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Bruce Degen.
I colored parts of it with Kor-i-noor pencils and added the Fiskars Threading Water punch along the bottom. The sentiment is from Savvy Stamps.
What incredibly CUTE cards! Great use of the CPS sketch too!
Posted by: Linda Beeson | August 03, 2008 at 08:20 PM
Love these cards. What cute images and nice way of incorporating text.
Posted by: Annapurna | August 03, 2008 at 08:23 PM
OMG! What a cool idea! I love the idea of using the kids book artwork.
Posted by: wendyp | August 04, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Love these kids story illustrations! great idea and fun cards Stef!
Posted by: Julia Aston | August 04, 2008 at 02:59 PM
Great cards!!
Love them both -- very cute!
Posted by: Kathryn H | August 04, 2008 at 09:57 PM
Stef - these cards are so fun - what a great idea! I Love these cards - the children will love them as well : )
Posted by: Krista | August 05, 2008 at 08:15 PM
HOLY
FREAKIN'
MACKERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(by which i mean, "these are AMAZING, stef"!) ♥♥♥
Posted by: lauren | August 06, 2008 at 08:50 AM
Gorgeous cards!
Posted by: Jess | August 06, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Astoundingly gorgeous cards. I love your colouring and what a glorious idea to use the illustrations from vintage kid's stories. WOWzers! The kids are sure to love them :0)
Posted by: Mel M. M. M. | August 07, 2008 at 02:43 PM
This is such a creative and special idea! I love it and that elephant card is just beyond cute.
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Posted by: Susanna | August 08, 2008 at 08:46 AM
These are so adorable - what a fantastic idea to use the images from vintage books! I'm off to scour our basement for treasure...
Posted by: maria fiscella | August 08, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Oh, my gosh! Those are fantastic!
Posted by: Lorie | August 09, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Soooo cute and creative! Love them!
Katie
Posted by: katie | August 09, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Oh my...what a wonderful idea ..just think of the possilities. Ty for the creativity.
Posted by: Lynda Hidalgo | August 09, 2008 at 09:50 PM
Very cool recycling! Love what you did. My son has always been very gentle with his books, so I don't have any material to do this.
Great job, Stef!
Posted by: Anthonette | August 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM
what great cards! love them! thanks for playing along at the cps blog!
Posted by: charity hassel | August 10, 2008 at 10:10 PM