Vintage Holiday Crafts and Free Printable Greeting Cards

When it comes to honoring a birthday, you can’t beat these vintage free printable birthday cards. (Scroll down to see the eight designs.) Not that there’s anything wrong with modern birthday card designs; they’re great. But sometimes it’s just nice to summon up the feeling of yesteryear.

These cards convey both an elegance and a sense of whimsy, which I’m sure will be appreciated by the recipients. And to make them even more special, try adding just a touch of glitter glue to embellish them. But don’t use a lot or the card stock might warp and the colors might run. You don’t need much to achieve a nice effect anyway. Just small dabs on highlighted areas can make a big difference. For example, you could put a little silver, white or clear iridescent glitter on the highlighted areas of the flowers or on the sails on the boat. You might also want to put clear or lightly colored glitter in little streaks on the clouds on the Flyer card or on the highlighted areas of the oranges in the Crown Jewel card. (I think you might want to leave Babe Ruth just as he is, though!)

However you embellish them, or even if you don’t, I hope you enjoy these free printable birthday cards!

Just click a vintage birthday card image below to view and download the larger version:

Images used in these free vintage card designs © copyright Dover Publications

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