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Free Clip Art: Vintage Roses

Holiday Crafts — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:45:32 +0000

It’s summertime as I write this, so the flowers are in bloom. The vintage roses below, however, are always in bloom — even though most are decades old. These beautiful vintage free clip art roses span from the Victorian era to the mid-twentieth century, and they’re just as beautiful now as the day they were created.

If you love flowers (and who doesn’t?), you might also enjoy our collection of beautiful assorted vintage flowers. See our vintage angels and cherubs too! And if you’re here looking at these vintage roses for an upcoming nuptial, check out these unique wedding favors. I think you’ll love their huge selection. They also have plenty of items that can be incorporated into DIY wedding favors, decorations and crafts.

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Free Vintage Pink Rose Scrapbook Paper

Holiday Crafts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:28:21 +0000

Here are some old-timey-looking free vintage rose scrapbook papers and a coordinating stripe design that I hope you’ll enjoy using. The pink rose I used to create the designs (pictured at right) comes from Vintagerio, which has an insanely large collection of vintage roses and other flowers that I’ve featured on this site and some of the pages linked from the sidebars. By the way, if you click on the rose art to the right, you’ll find a lovely large-sized version you’re free to use.

Speaking of the the sidebars, you can see from looking at them that I’ve been playing with designing scrapbook papers for a while now. Creating them is the perfect hobby for me, since I love vintage art and clip art in general. Working on the designs has allowed me to justify spending hours looking at beautiful artwork and it’s definitely art therapy for me. I hope my therapy will benefit you as well when you make something pretty from these or my other vintage flower scrapbook papers!

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By the way, these vintage roses reminded me of wallpaper I once had. In fact, a lot of paper craft designs could translate well to walls. I wonder how many scrapbook paper designers actually move ontoÂ designing wallpaper — and vice versa. The scale may be different but the principles are the same: a repeat pattern is usually involved and the colors have to be easy on the eyes. That second aspect is obviously more important with wallpaper. You can always shut a scrapbook and put it in a drawer so no one sees it. But once a paper design is applied in the form ofÂ paper designs for walls, it’s there until you go through some considerable work to take it down. No one wants to look at obnoxious walls for years on end! That puts some pressure on the artists but even more so on the homeowner. I always used to get so stressed out when picking out wallpaper designs.Â As a result nowadays I just stick to painting the walls and playing with scrapbook paper designs on my computer! There’s much less margin for error.

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Free Vintage Scrapbooking Paper: Victorian Scroll Work and Stripes

Holiday Crafts — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:35:37 +0000

Although I don’t claim to be an expert on scrapbooking paper, I can pretty much guarantee you couldn’t actually find any Victorian scroll design scrapbook paper in the 1800s. So I made some myself, using Picnik, the free online graphics program.

These printable scrapbook pages in lovely soft shades of vintage pink, blue, brown and green are designed to mix and match and would be ideal for wedding scrapbooks or even as backgrounds for handmade wedding invitations or thank you cards. I personally plan to use them as components of handmade birthday cards to give to friends. They’re going to go great with Vintage Holiday Craft’s vintage flowers and roses, so I can’t wait to use them.

These are only the second set of scrapbooking papers I’ve designed — although I look forward to creating many more. The first set is a mix of contemporary and vintage-look St. Patrick’s Day scrapbook papers.

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Free Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards: Romantic Couples

Holiday Crafts — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:55:29 +0000

These free vintage Valentine’s Day cards feature what this February holiday is all about: romantic couples in various stages of Valentine’s Day love. There’s a gorgeous illustration of a couple in a paper moon, which is an image that used to be very popular but you hardly ever see today. There are also a few cartoon couples using nursery rhymes to deliver their Valentine messages. And there are quite a few that feature kissing, hugging, dancing and other chaste vintage acts of love, many among the flowers and hearts that are so iconic for Valentine’s Day. But you don’t have to restrict the use of these vintage cards to Valentine’s Day. Because of their romantic nature, some of these cards would even be useful for vintage wedding or bridal shower cards or favors.

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Free Vintage Angels and Cherubs Clip Art

Holiday Crafts — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:57:43 +0000

Who doesn’t love angels and cherubs? These adorable vintage angels and cherubs are perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, weddings, or any time you want to convey sweetness. They also go well with our vintage roses clip art.

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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!

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Free Vintage Flowers Clip Art

Holiday Crafts — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:13:51 +0000

Flowers were a common theme in Victorian art and they’re still popular. The following images hail from Victorian times through the mid-twentieth-century and have myriad uses: as clipart, logos, avatars, in advertising and just about anything else you can think of.

If you love flowers (and who doesn’t?), you’ll enjoy our newly added giant collections of vintage flowers and antique seed packets. We also have beautiful vintage roses, and vintage angels and cherubs too!

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