Click a vintage Santa image below to view and download a larger version (enlarged sizes vary):

For more holiday vintage images, see our Vintage Santa Claus Christmas Cards, Free Vintage Santa Clip Art and Santa Graphics.

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Announcing the Free Clip Art Sourcebook: links to thousands of

When I was a magazine art director about 100 years ago, we didn’t have electronic free clip art. That might seem incomprehensible to younger people, but we had to jump through all kinds of hoops just to get images onto the pages of a magazine. It involved X-Acto knives and sticky wax, which always seemed to be stuck to parts of me, instead of just to the back of the clip art.

I used to design a lot of small ads every month, many of which required some kind of artwork to make them stand out. That was when my love affair with clip art began. Many years later I created Vintage Holiday Crafts and started designing my own clip art because I couldn’t find the quality and type of clip art I wanted unless I paid for it. The same was true for scrapbook papers, which can cost a bundle if you buy them by the sheet at the craft store. I assumed other people had the same issues.

But now I’ve developed a new problem: I have a lot of free contemporary and vintage clip art and scrapbook images. My solution was to compile it into the Free Clip Art Sourcebook, which links to free clip art and scrapbooking image resources squirreled away all over my little online world. The images are categorized alphabetically by subject and located in one document, so everything is easy to find.

The Free Clip Art Sourcebook doesn’t just link to free clip art and scrapbook images; it’s free to download too. So help yourself and have fun! Just click the blue button above.

You need the free Adobe Reader to view the Free Clip Art Sourcebook. You probably already have this software on your computer but if you need to download it, click here.

Please note that the images are subject to the Vintage Holiday Crafts terms of use.  Some vary in their restrictions, so please honor the terms on the page where you find art you want to use.

]]> http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/free-clip-art/feed/ 97 http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/free-vintage-thanksgiving-clip-art/ http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/free-vintage-thanksgiving-clip-art/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:23:46 +0000 Holiday Crafts http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/free-vintage-thanksgiving-clip-art/ I love Thanksgiving! Not only does the weather finally cool off down here in South Florida, but there’s just a lovely vibe to the holiday. With its focus on family, home and hearth — along with some football and a major parade — it’s a joy. This vintage Thanksgiving clip art reflects that feeling.

Speaking of a parade (how’s that for a segue?), my niece will be performing this Thanksgiving with the South Florida Special Needs Color Guard in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The color guard incorporates an inspiring group of developmentally disabled people of all ages. They usually get standing ovations when they perform because people are so blown away by what they’re able to accomplish. You can read more about them on my contemporary Thanksgiving clip art hub. (Update: The previous text was written in 2008. If you click the link, you can see a video of my niece doing a solo dance in the parade.)

Click a free vintage Thanksgiving clip art image below to view and download a larger version (enlarged sizes vary):

You might also like our Thanksgiving vintage postcards and Thanksgiving vintage greeting cards.

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NOTE: Please follow our terms of use when using this vintage Thanksgiving clip art in products or posting them to any blog, Web site, forum or social media site, either commercial or non-commercial. Thanks!

Read our TERMS OF USE, then click the vintage Halloween witches cards below to view and download the larger versions:

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You might also enjoy our contemporary fall clip art.

Click an image below to view and download a larger version (enlarged sizes vary):

There are all kinds of opinions about whether angels and cherubs really exist. But when it comes to their existence in vintage art, there is no question. Artists of old loved the subject of these little heavenly helpers. You can see evidence of that everywhere in ephemera that has been passed down through the generations, scanned and put online. We’re fortunate so many good examples have survived the passage of time, so we can bring them to you!

You might also be interested in our contemporary wedding clip art.

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Read our TERMS OF USE, just click the images below to view and download larger versions of the vintage July 4th clip art  (enlarged sizes vary):

More patriotic images:

• Veterans Day Clip Art
• 4th of July Vintage Postcards
• American Flag Vintage Art for Flag Day
• Memorial Day Vintage Greeting Cards

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