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Free Vintage Easter Clip Art

Holiday Crafts — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:07:39 +0000

This eclectic collection of free vintage Easter clip art has a little something for everyone. Even if you don’t celebrate Easter for spiritual reasons, there’s plenty of joy to be had at Easter time. The holiday’s arrival is synonymous with spring and renewal — whether you choose to see that renewal embodied in the resurrection of Jesus Christ or just the melting of snow and appearance of Easter bunnies, flowers and baby chicks that happens every spring.

I hope you find this vintage clip art useful. You might also be interested in our vintage Easter cards, as well as our Easter crafts. Some of them aren’t on this site, so make sure to get our Free Clip Art Sourcebook to see them all. The Sourcebook is free to download, requires no registration and is updated regularly with new art.

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Free Vintage Christmas Clip Art Images

Holiday Crafts — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:36:14 +0000

I love vintage Christmas clip art, and from my experience so do a lot of other people. These nine free vintage clip art images are particularly nice, in my opinion. Not only are they fine examples of authentic vintage Christmas art but they’re also large-sized, which means you can use them for far more than just the web.

People who prefer a more religious or spiritual slant to their Christmas images should appreciate these, as their are several that depict the baby Jesus in the manger with angels. There are also angels by themselves; two of them even look like they’re delivering a Christmas tree. Speaking of Christmas trees, there is also an image of Victorian children playing with their toys beneath one, and a woman carrying one in miniature. Together these form a nice collection that I’m sure you’ll find useful for Web sites, blogs, handmade Christmas cards, scrapbooking and other crafts.

To see and download larger versions of the free images, just click on the images below (enlarged sizes vary)

As I look at these illustrations, I have to wonder how many different artists are represented. If you look closely, the style of each image is a little different. When you think about how many vintage images are on this site or out on the Internet, they must represent a huge number of talented people. Unfortunately, these people go mostly unnoticed.

The same could probably be said for modern greeting card and clip art artists. They do what they do for pay, because the electric bill needs to be paid — no matter how talented they are. Some of today’s artists might even have huge portfolios of outstanding images, yet you’ll never know their names. So here’s to the unsung artists who enrich our lives silently every day. With any luck they enjoy their work and so will continue to give us images that will become the next millennium’s vintage art. And if you know artists who toil in obscurity, be sure to give them liberal praise. You just might be encouraging tomorrow’s masterpieces.

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We also have some colorful contemporary Hanukkah clip art. And letâ€™s not forget New Yearâ€™s! Check out our free vintage New Year cards, vintage New Year clip art and contemporary New Yearâ€™s Eve clip art.

Free Vintage Christmas Cards: Baby Jesus and Nativity Scenes

Holiday Crafts — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:26:38 +0000

I had a request to post some spiritual vintage Christmas cards. Although there weren’t a lot of these type of vintage Christmas cards in my collection, I was able to find some nativity scenes; images of Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus; Jesus Christ in the arms of Christmas angels; and even a little shepherd who happens upon the manger scene. There’s also an image of Jesus Christ as a little boy, looking very powerful and peaceful. I’d have to say that one is my favorite.

Click one of the free vintage Christmas cards below to view and download a larger version (enlarged sizes vary):


		Special thanks to Maryjane Bigler of The Beehive Cottage for the lovely Christmas photo to the left

One of the things I love most about vintage art — especially vintage Christmas cards — is the quality of the paintings. I would say that some of them below are on a par with the gorgeous art you would find in the Vatican. On that note, if you’d like to see a variety of religious-themed images from the Vatican as well as photos of the Vatican itself, visit the Vatican City Pictures blog.

I hope you find a good use for these vintage Christmas cards. Please feel free to leave a comment telling us what you did with them. You could be an inspiration to others. Thanks, and have a wonderful holiday!

You might also be interested in these other vintage Christmas images:

We also have some colorful contemporary Hanukkah clip art. And let’s not forget New Year’s! Check out our free vintage New Year cards, vintage New Year clip art and contemporary New Year’s Eve clip art. They’re sure to put you in a party mood!

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