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Put n' Take gameboard
Alphabetics game board
Fisherman's Catch game board
Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Vintage gameboard graphics
Games are always fun as themes for collage and assemblage projects and greeting cards. Today's images are vintage game boards from a collection called 52 Variety Game Chest, which featured a game for every week in the year.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Vintage Bingo cards and 10-cent tickets
Game-related items are always fun to use. They're great for handmade greeting cards, scrapbook pages, altered books, assemblage art and collage projects. Here are a few vintage Bingo cards and tickets for you to download and use in your artwork.
Let the games begin!
Monday, August 8, 2011
1927 ad: Grandmother is still dancing!
A 1927 issue of Pictorial Review featured this lovely illustration by Corinne Dillon in a full-page ad for... I'm going to give you a minute to guess.
I love the ladies' bobbed hairdos and Flapper dresses -- wonderful examples of 1920s fashions.
The ad title is "Grandmother is still dancing," and the ad copy begins like this:
Grandmother is no longer a bored spectator at the dance. No more does she decorate the side walls, wishing the party would end. No, indeed!
At the first note of the music she is right out on the floor. There she stays throughout the evening, doing the very latest steps. And she's just as reluctant as anyone else to hear the music of the last dance fading away.
Of course, there's a secret about her enduring vitality -- a simple secret she's perfectly willing to pass along.
Blog readers, can you guess the secret?
Her secret, it turns out, is Feen-a-Mint, the chewing laxative. And you thought something like arthritis medicine might be the secret to an evening of dancing!
Corinne Boyd Dillon, a Kentucky-born artist was a very busy illustrator in those days. Her artwork was in most of the national magazines of the day, as well as many children's books and novels. I wonder how she felt about creating this beautiful art for a laxative advertisement... I guess it helped pay the bills!
Feen-a-Mint, incidentally, resembled Chiclets and its box warns that it is "A medicine, not a confection."
Keep dancing!
I love the ladies' bobbed hairdos and Flapper dresses -- wonderful examples of 1920s fashions.
The ad title is "Grandmother is still dancing," and the ad copy begins like this:
Grandmother is no longer a bored spectator at the dance. No more does she decorate the side walls, wishing the party would end. No, indeed!
At the first note of the music she is right out on the floor. There she stays throughout the evening, doing the very latest steps. And she's just as reluctant as anyone else to hear the music of the last dance fading away.
Of course, there's a secret about her enduring vitality -- a simple secret she's perfectly willing to pass along.
Blog readers, can you guess the secret?
Her secret, it turns out, is Feen-a-Mint, the chewing laxative. And you thought something like arthritis medicine might be the secret to an evening of dancing!
Corinne Boyd Dillon, a Kentucky-born artist was a very busy illustrator in those days. Her artwork was in most of the national magazines of the day, as well as many children's books and novels. I wonder how she felt about creating this beautiful art for a laxative advertisement... I guess it helped pay the bills!
Feen-a-Mint, incidentally, resembled Chiclets and its box warns that it is "A medicine, not a confection."
Keep dancing!
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