Free Vintage Clip Art - Antique Playing Card

This is another fun one from the antique playing card deck! This card features a sailor dressed in a blue uniform and an anchor on the 9 of spades.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Gorgeous Roses in Basket

I bought this one a couple of months ago and then complete forgot about it, can you imagine? It's certainly time for this little beauty to come out and be adored! I just think this image of the cabbage Roses in the basket, is perfect in every way, I hope you like it too.
And if you like Victorian florals, check out the new Free background that I added to my other blog www.thebackgroundfairy.com today.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Ophelia

Today I added some antique engravings to my Etsy shop, including one of Ophelia. This isn't it, but it reminded me about the gorgeous colorful version of Ophelia that you see here. This one is not from my collection, but it is an archived image and is in the public domain. I just think she is so beautiful and ethereal, and the colors are marvelous.
I've added some fun new pieces to my Background Fairy site. Some free buttons for your blog, done in silver German glass glitter. Check them out if you get a chance!

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Free Victorian Graphic - Ephemera 1887

Isn't this the prettiest little piece of ephemera?! I love this darling little Sunday school booklet. This is quite an old piece, circa 1887, to be exact. This has such a beautiful Mulberry red color to it. So many lovely details on this one, did you notice the sweet little Noah's Arc scene up in the corner? Sweet! Make sure you click on this to bring up the largest size.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Girl with Butterfly

Here's the companion card to the one I posted yesterday. This pretty Victorian girl is riding a big beautiful Butterfly! Make sure you click on the image to bring up the largest size.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Boy Riding Dragonfly

I was off on an antiquing trip today with my husband and I found some really lovely cards to share with you! This antique postcard features a sweet Victorian boy riding the most beautiful Dragonfly!!! I really adore the subject and color of this card. If you like this one, then be sure to stop back tomorrow as I will be posting his darling sister on a Butterfly!

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Free Antique Clip Art - Glorious Angel

This is a wonderful old print of the most glorious looking angel. I love the regal looking Lion in this one as well!
If you get a chance check out my other blog backgroundfairy.com to see the Free Gardeny Green Damask Background that I just added today!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Clown Card - Pierrot

Last weekend I was so fortunate to find this wonderful antique card deck. The card shown here was one of my favorites, this one features a fabulous Pierrot type clown on the 3 of Clubs.

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Where Bloggers Create Party

Today, on my other blog Fleurish I'm taking part in the "Where Bloggers Create" Party! If you get a chance stop on over to see my blogging work space!

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1000 Followers Celebration - Free Digital Collage Sheet

Well, I've just hit the 1,000 Followers mark!!! Yipee!! My dear friend Cathe Holden from Just Something I Made, created the gorgeous graphic, from an old Marriage Certificate(you can find the original here on my site), that you see above just for my special day! Now don't tell her that I told you. Shhhh! Sweet modest Cathe did not want to take credit for this lovely gift that she gave me, but how can I keep quiet about something sooo wonderful! Thank you Cathe!


So today, in honor of this special occasion, I wanted to post something a little different as a gift to all of my readers. I am offering for free this lovely Digital Collage Sheet that I created just for you, entitled "Marie Antoinette" The Versailles Collection. I've included some of my favorite vintage clip art images of Marie A. and some pretty accessories too. Make sure you click on the image to bring up the full size of the collage sheet, it is quite large.
Please note, there is a copyright mark on the sheet, as this sheet may not be sold as a collection, however as with all of my graphics, you are free to use up to 4 images from the sheet on anyone project for resale or for fun! I hope you like it. And thank you to all of my 1,000+ followers, you are all greatly appreciated!!!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Charming Girl with Flowers

What a charming vintage postcard this is! This little girl looks like she could be Marie Antoinette's daughter!! This one has such pretty flowers on it and lovely colors.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Gorgeous Antique Sheet Music - Cherub

I've been so lucky to find many of these wonderful early sheet music pieces lately! As long as you guys like them, I'll keep posting them each week. This one has a darling cherub on it and the words "Opera". I did not remove the stain on it, as I found it rather appealing. I really like the bold black lettering on the creamy background. Make sure you click on the image to bring up the largest size!

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Free Victorian Clip Art - Early Alphabet Book

Well, many of you commented to say that you would like to see the rest of the Old Alphabet book so, here are the other pages! My favorites are the lady with the birds and the Queen!

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Free Victorian Graphic - Early Alphabet - Typography

Today's selection is an amazing page from an early children's alphabet book! I adore the typography on this antique piece. If you like this one let me know and I will share the other pages from this book, it really is amusing, just like the banner at the bottom says!
I'm still adding more items to my Etsy Shop, so check it out if you get a chance. I've added lots more sparkly rhinestone jewelry and some other intriguing items as well!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Darling Birds in Nest

Okay, I not it's not anywhere near Easter right now, but I just couldn't wait that long to share this precious vintage postcard! The card shows two darling birds perched on their nest with 3 pink eggs. I just love the pretty soft pastel colors in this card!!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Lady with Surprising Hat

I think it's ever so important to keep up with the latest styles, don't you agree? This season all of the fashionable young ladies are wearing these trimmed garbage pail hats! Too funny!!! I hope you enjoy this comical postcard.

Now that I'm back from vacation, I've been loading up my Etsy shop again. Stop by if you get a chance, I've added some cute vintage brass dog tags, rhinestone jewelry, skeleton keys and more.


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Vintage Postcard Photoshop Brush Download - From LeBlahg

Here's something new for you today! This gorgeous Free download was made by the very clever, Tristan of LeBlahg. Tristan made these fabulous Photoshop brushes using some graphics from here on The Graphics Fairy, in addition to her own photography. For those of you that may not know what Photoshop brushes are, they are very much like digital rubber stamps. I often use these for making my backgrounds on my other site, and they are just the most fun to use! You will need to Click Here to go to her site and get the Free Download. Also, stay tuned to LeBlahg as Tristan and her partner Jules are working on some exciting new projects. Apparently they are coming out with a huge set of creative tools and tutorials that will change your photographs into works of art! I know I'll be waiting for that!!

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P.S. In other news check out my other blog Fleurish, to see the photos of the Sonoma County Lavender farm that I visited on my vacation last week!

Free Vintage Clip Art - Darling Toddler with Floral Frame

I adore the turquoise blue in this one! This very pretty antique trade card features a darling toddler framed with Daisies!

I've added a new Free Blog Background to my other blog www.backgroundfairy.com . It's a lovely French grey 3 column background.

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Amazing Antique Sheet Music Graphic - Ephemera

This is another fabulous find from my antiquing trip last weekend! I was lucky to pick up a number of these amazing antique pieces of sheet music! This one has the loveliest flourishes and scrolls and the perfect sepia toned colors. I really liked the staining on this one so I left it alone. I am offering two versions for you though, the original version and one with out the center wording, that can be used as a frame. Be sure to click on it to get the largest size and see all the gorgeous details!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Palmistry Hand

Today my husband and I went to a town in Pennsylvania that has a number of Antique shops known for carrying rare and early pieces. I don't go often as the prices can be quite high, but you can find some wonderful and unusual things. I was lucky to find this amazing Palmistry hand advertising card, it was damaged so I got a fairly good price on it. I thought you might like to see the progression of taking a piece like this and fixing it up digitally. I don't have photoshop unfortunately but I have Paint Shop Pro and it works quite nicely for me. The image above is the corrected image.

The one above is the original. You can see it was stained and torn and the top layer of paper on the tip of the middle finger had peeled off. The color is also a bit faded.
This is after I have sharpened up the image and adjusted the color slightly with the auto correct button (my favorite button, it's like magic!) Next I use the "make-up" button to correct the tiny torn areas.
The image above is the final correction. I use the "make-up" button again to carefully take the stains out, making it smaller as I go to get in the tiny areas with out loosing any detail. Then I use the "Clone" tool to put the tip of the finger back on.

Above shows the results of one more step. I have take out the background using the "Magic Wand" tool (all Fairy's should have one of those, don't you think?!), and saved the image as a PNG file. Now this image is ready to be used for digital applications.
Lastly here's the back, it only needed a small amount of touch up. The whole process probably took me about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes. It can be a bit time consuming but the results are well worth it. Make sure you click on the images to get the largest size versions. I hope you enjoy this fun piece!



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