On Etsy, I've noticed that there is quite a lot of book page art, with vintage graphics printed on dictionary pages. You can create a similar look at home with some free clip art, and an old book.
Since there is a foot of snow outside, I decided to make some Spring book page art to forget about the weather. Let's face it--it will probably be awhile until it is Spring outside. Thanks to that crusty groundhog! Book page art combines my love of books with a quick and easy way to make wall decor.
I started by looking up free vintage graphics from the Graphics Fairy. I wanted a rabbit and a nest with eggs. I inserted the images into a Microsoft Word doc, where I resized them and centered them (you could also do this in Photoshop). I also set up the page in a landscape orientation, but you could print them vertically as well if you have that kind of picture frame.
Then I tore some pages from an old book I have, Don Quixote, that I purchased from a library book sale (librarians avert your eyes here). The pages are about 8 1/2" by 11". You feed the book pages into your printer as normal and print out your images with the text background.
I framed one of the images in my living room gallery wall. It occurred to me that the "nest" didn't have to be only for spring, but I could leave it in there all year round to signify my home or "nest." This is also what I will probably do if I get lazy and don't feel like changing it for awhile.
The other use for book page art I came up with, was "framing" the page with a glass cloche I got at Target. I used a vase filler I had from Pottery Barn and added the rabbit book page to create a spring scene--or as I told my husband "I trapped the Easter Bunny."
Let me know if you've tried book page art or have any other ideas!
Anne with an E
On Etsy, I've noticed that there is quite a lot of book page art, with vintage graphics printed on dictionary pages. You can create a similar look at home with some free clip art, and an old book.
Since there is a foot of snow outside, I decided to make some Spring book page art to forget about the weather. Let's face it--it will probably be awhile until it is Spring outside. Thanks to that crusty groundhog! Book page art combines my love of books with a quick and easy way to make wall decor.
I started by looking up free vintage graphics from the Graphics Fairy. I wanted a rabbit and a nest with eggs. I inserted the images into a Microsoft Word doc, where I resized them and centered them (you could also do this in Photoshop). I also set up the page in a landscape orientation, but you could print them vertically as well if you have that kind of picture frame.
Then I tore some pages from an old book I have, Don Quixote, that I purchased from a library book sale (librarians avert your eyes here). The pages are about 8 1/2" by 11". You feed the book pages into your printer as normal and print out your images with the text background.
I framed one of the images in my living room gallery wall. It occurred to me that the "nest" didn't have to be only for spring, but I could leave it in there all year round to signify my home or "nest." This is also what I will probably do if I get lazy and don't feel like changing it for awhile.
The other use for book page art I came up with, was "framing" the page with a glass cloche I got at Target. I used a vase filler I had from Pottery Barn and added the rabbit book page to create a spring scene--or as I told my husband "I trapped the Easter Bunny."
Let me know if you've tried book page art or have any other ideas!
Anne with an E