This is a gorgeous butterfly from an old vintage postcard! This one has the most wonderful vibrant bright colors. I hope you can find a use for this pretty insect in your art!
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This is such an adorable vintage postcard! This one is not from my private collection but it is in the public domain and I thought it was worth sharing. This little girl has such a dear face, she's holding a parasol and appears to be digging through her pockets to pay for her basket of goodies!
This is a sweet piece of Victoriana! This little card shows a cozy cottage all covered in snow. Along the edge are the prettiest Morning Glories in bloom. This one reminds me that Spring is just around the corner!
This is a wonderful fragment from an old French newspaper circa 1882. I'm not sure what this chart was for but I love that it says Paris on it, and I think the numbers are fun!
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I believe this was an old advertising piece, it appears to have been part of an old scrap album as it has lots of glue residue on the back. This lovely piece features a stunning Victorian woman holding a fan. The colors are just so vibrant and gorgeous on this one!
I'm such a sucker for these old children's readers! This one is a Second Reader and date's back to the year 1871. This page shows a little boy swimming with his dog (St Bernard I think). It has wonderful typography and is aged to perfection!
This is a very pretty antique photo of a bride in her wedding gown, veil and gloves! This one is not from my personal collection, it's from a public domain archive, but I thought I would share it with you as it is such a lovely piece.
This is a nice Victorian print of a pretty woman! I love the soft aqua's and creamy tones in this one.
This is a pretty vintage French postcard featuring a woman in a lovely pink dress, attending to a basket of Roses that has the craziest looking dove on top of it!
This is a fun old Post Office envelope. I love the great old aged patina on this one, I left the rips and the little stain intact for added interest.
Here's a sweet vintage postcard with an adorable little girl. Her dress is so pretty with the all the beautiful eyelet on it!
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This is a wonderful antique invoice from 1912. I love the aged patina on this one!
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This is an interesting piece of ephemera that I found not too long ago. This piece came to me as a little booklet sewn up with thread and had a number of these little prints inside of it. The prints seem to be from early French plays, this one is dated 1820 and features a man wearing Harlequin type pants, a soldier and a woman wearing a veil. Quite a curious little piece!
This is a fabulous vintage postcard featuring a young romantic couple along the beach. I think this would work very well in a Valentine's Day project or card!
This is a cute old German Valentine. This is the kind that pops out, which is why you see the funny little paper tag at the bottom of this piece. I think the young colonial style couple look so sweet on this piece!
I've made a new button! If you enjoy using the hundreds (nearly 600 at this time) of free vintage clip art images available here for to you use in your art, collage, mixed media projects, scrapbooks etc., it would be so lovely if you would like to add my button to your blog sidebar.
Easy instructions for adding my button to your blog:
1)First Right click on my button and Click "Save as" to save it onto your computer. (Remember where you put it, you will need this later)
2)Next when you are on your blog's main page click "Customize" in the upper right hand corner. (This will take you to the "Layout" page.)
3)You should see the words "Add and Arrange Elements" in bold. Simply look for "Add A Gadget" (in blue letters) and click on it.
4)Next Scroll down until you see "Picture" (it has a green tree next to it) and click on it.
5)Click the "Browse" button and go to the folder where you saved the image and select it.
6)In the link box add my address. You can use www.thegraphicsfairy.com or www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com
7)Untick the "Shrink to fit" box (We don't want that!). And then hit the "Save" button.
8)That's it, your done! Thank you so much for adding my button!!
Oh my, how cute is this one! This little girl looks so adorable in her check patterned dress. She's ready to play tennis and has her racket in hand. A few months ago, I remember seeing some collages on a blog (sorry can't remember where) that were done with old photos. The photos were of people but they had animal heads collaged onto them. As cute as her dear little face is, I can totally see a little bunny head collaged onto her body!
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This is a fun vintage valentine with two cute children. It appears as though they have collected a basket of hearts!
This is a darling Victorian graphic featuring two cute children sitting on a tree branch. On the branch there is a bird's nest filled with eggs.
This is a beautiful old label from France done in cream and gold tones with a Phoenix featured in the center.
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This is an address in Paris from an early French book. A fun one to use in your French mixed media projects!
This is a fun piece of old Ephemera, an old envelope with fabulous red lettering!
This is a wonderful page from an antique ledger book. This page dates back to the year 1870 and is fabulously yellowed with age for that perfect sepia tone patina! Be sure to click on the image to bring it up in the largest size.
