Vintage Saturdays: Children's Book's Illustrations.

As a teacher in my real life, I am constantly surrounded by children's books.  While I think they are mostly all adorable, I am seriously in love with old children's book.  What to do with old books that are no longer usable in its traditional sense?  These artists have come up with wonderful ways of reusing the pages within (and even the covers) to create new and super cool treasures.

GormanStudios decoupages the images onto blocks 

to create unique children's toys and room decor:

StoriesDivinations uses reproductions of these images 

to create delightful cards for sending to others:

Another adorable greeting card from StoriesDivinations:

What can you do with the actual book covers themselves?  

PigseyArt turns them into whimsical journals:

Prefer jewelry?  StudioLaTouche makes 

adorable necklaces using vintage illustrations:

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Feeling inspired? Here are a few etsy sellers with super fun books 

that are ready to be used in projects of your own:

grainedit:

FondlyVintage:

ValinthePaperValley:

Vintage Saturdays are the best!  Find previous posts here.

Natalie

xo

Vintage Saturdays: Book Pages

I'm a modern girl in virtually every way.  But there are a few things I need to hold on to.  Things like old books.  While I appreciate the ease and simplicity of new e-readers, I will take a book anytime.  Nothing can replace the look, feel and smell of a nice big book and if it a bit older, smellier and yellowed? Even better.

So to me nothing is more tragic than seeing an old book ruined and in the trash.  Certainly they can't all survive time, but what can be done with some of those older books that are in a state of disrepair and beyond the point of being able to be fixed?  These artists have found some ingenious ways to reuse books pages.  Even old paper can seem fresh and new when reused.

EmeraldCut runs these pages into mini envelopes.  These are perfect for sending small notes or adding to your wedding decor:

TheTurningofaPage turns them into the cutest stickers ever.  She creates many different shapes, including flying birds:

BookCraft creates super cute roses from book pages.  I think these will look gorgeous as a big bouquet:

More into jewelry?  ThePaperWord uses small strips of book pages to make these really awesome earrings:

Or how about a super cool necklace?  This one is from SimplyPrettyStyle:

Tamragerber uses several book pages to create the ultimate in beautiful wreaths.  I adore these!  They will look great in so many different rooms and fit in nicely with many different home decor styles:

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Feeling inspired to make something of your own?  These etsy sellers always have tons of vintage books and/or book pages on hand:

PaperAeroplanes:

PugcentricPursuits:

KatieBlue:

CherryCorners:

jtjujubees:

Vintage Saturdays are the best!  Find previous posts here.

Natalie

xo