Monday, 30 July 2012

Vintage Cards

A little while ago after coming back from France I showed some of the vintage letters and post-cards I bought at a flea market, and mentioned that I would show some of the cards I would make.  Well, I've been busy chopping them up (seems a shame, although what else to do with them?) and they are now recycled into cards.  Here's a sample - the two bottom left -


These letters and postcards from France were dated 1927, 1957 etc.











As you'll see, I also made some cards out of a recycled Daily Mail Nipper Annual, 1939, mostly black and white, a few colour.  There was very little colour used in those days for Annuals, so the coloured pages are a little rarer.  I bought the 1939 Annual from a shop selling bric-a-brac in Exeter back when we went there for the day whilst staying in Lyme Regis.  You can tell what I spend all my time doing when I'm on holiday!

2 comments:

  1. Very stylish and creative but not sure if I could bring myself to do it - more likely to copy them and then use and put originals in with all the other stuff I accumulate - wouldn't get the same tho.

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  2. Really like those cards Ms De Plume.
    These are like story-dresses...

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