Vintage Findings

Betsy Veldman has been having a week of showing off some of her creations using her wonderful collections of vintage items.  This post really grabbed my interest, as I'm a collector of children's books, also.  I decided to use a scanned image from The Bumper Book, published in 1946.  Growing up it was a favorite of my sisters and me, and when I had our boys, I was able to find a newer copy of it from 1969.  As you can see, it's a little worse for wear, but I still treasure it.

According to the frontspiece, all of the illustrations are done by Eulalie.  No last name.  Being the pastel girl that I am, I was drawn to the illustrations for the poem "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Eugene Field.  Several pages of the book were devoted to it, and here is part of the page and image that I scanned:

 And here is my card. 

I used paper and a rub-on from Little Yellow Bicycle's Snugglebug Boy collection, a fat dotted grosgrain ribbon just received from Kath in Scotland, and these assorted buttons.  Some of them are vintage, I'm sure, as I also have my mother-in-law's button box. 

Thank you, Betsy, I had such fun making this card and remembering.  I see more coming!