Vintage cherubs for DIY Valentine's Day cards

Cute cherub with watering  can gardening hearts - vintage clipart for Valentine's Day card 

Two little cherubs on the sofa - vintage clipart for Valentine's Day card

Cherubs under the pigeon house - vintage clipart for Valentine's Day card

Those illustrations with cute vintage cherubs and angels are ready to be on your Valentine's Day DIY card. All there left to do is to add your love message. Valentine's Day cards may look more interesting, if you colorize this vintage illustrations or add old paper background, like I did.

Cherub sowing the seeds of love - vintage Valentine's Day card

Enjoy and have a happy Valentine's day full of LOVE!

Valentine's Day Cherubs - free vintage clipart

There are couple of weeks before Valentine's Day and it's time to prepare gifts for your loved ones. This cute vintage cherubs can look great both on cards and gift tags.

Vintage angel clipart

Vintage cherub clipart

Antique cherub free clipart

Free calligraphic ornaments

One of this two vintage calligraphic ornaments can be perfect for your personal stationary or wedding invitation. Both files are saved as JPEG with white background, so you can easily use it in your DIY projects or scrapbooking. If you are looking for vector file, you can find it here with some more decorative elements.

How to download: click on image you want to download, it will be opened in a new window, right click on it to save on your computer.

Free printable wedding invitation template

Poinsettia vintage free clip art

Poinsettia is one of the most associated plants with Christmas in North America. It's Christmas history began in Mexico in 16 century. According to the legend, one poor girl had nothing else to bring to a church as a gift to celebrate Jesus birthday, except wild weeds. But miracle happened and crimson flower sprouted from the weeds. In Mexico Poinsettia is called "La Flor de la Nochebuena", which means Flower of the Christmas Eve or Flower of the Holy Night. But common english name "Poinsettia" came from the name of the the first United States Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett. In 1825 he was the first who brought this plant into the United States.

And here I have some lovely Poinsettia vintage clip art ready for your Christmas DIY or scrapbooking projects.

Poinsettia - Christmas vintage clipart

Poinsettia - Christmas vintage clipart

Cute little girl holding Poinsettia flower - Christmas vintage clipart

Vintage Santa Claus clipart

There is no Christmas without Santa. Here you have 3 different Santas from vintage Christmas postcards and they are ready to be part of you modern Christmas cards.

Vintage Santa Claus clipart

Santa in the car - vintage Christmas clipart

Vintage Santa with presents and Christmas tree

Vacuum flask (Thermos) free vintage clip art

I think that in many countries have already become cold (but not in Israel, I still enjoy sun and sea :-) ), so I hope this vintage Thermos clip art would warm up your soul.

Vintage vacuum flask (Termos) free clip art

More than 100 years ago Thermos used to be called a Dewar flask or Dewar bottle after its inventor  Scottish physicist and chemist Sir James Dewar. He invented it in 1892, but in 1904 lost a court case in claiming the rights to the invention to German company, Thermos GmbH, who started commertial production of vacuum flasks by the brand name "Thermos".

Retro photo camera clip art

One more of my vintage illustrations: this time shabby-looking old fashioned retro photo camera. Illustration is based on my father's old Fujifilm finepix x100 camera. I had never used  this camera, I prefer instant digital photos. I can't imaging paying on each and every photo, just to see it. But I like vintage things and vintage clip art and I enjoy to share my finds. 

So, be my guest, download and feel free to use it in any of your craft projects. If you prefer vector, this retro camera vector clip art can be found here.

retro photo camera clip art

Vintage cutlery clip art: spoon, fork and knife

Vintage cutlery clip art: royal silver spoon, fork and knife with big gems at the handles. The earliest English reference about silver cutlery appears to be in a will of 1259. Brass, pewter, and latten spoons appear to have been common in about the 15th century, before this, domestic medieval spoons were made of cow horn or wood.

I see this antique cutlery clip art on a thank you card or dinner invitation. It may look even more interesting if you place vintage plate clip art between them. 

How to download: click on image you want to download, it will be opened in a new window, right click on it to save on your computer.

Vintage custard tin box clip art

Vintage custard tin box clip art

Vintage tin box clip art: Harvest custard powder. Sole manufacturers W& D. Harvest, London, E.C.

Vintage candelabrum clip art

Antique candelabrum clip art

This absolutely beautiful antique two-branched brass candelabrum (candle holder) without candles may look great in any of your scrapbooking, DIY or collage designs. 

Free antique clip art frames

You can use this beautiful vintage clip art frames in your wedding invitation, thank you or congratulation card designs. They can be easily colorized and scaled in Photoshop or even in Word. Original size is 17'X22', 72 DPI, you can resize it in Photoshop or any other graphic program.

How to download: right click on the image you want to download --> from the drop down menu choose "Open link in new tab/window" --> it will be opened in a new tab/window --> right click on image to save on your computer.

Free congratulations clip art frame

Free congratulations clip art frame

Free wedding clip art frame

Vintage candlesticks clip art

Vintage candlesticks clip art

Vintage candlesticks clip art

Two vintage candlesticks clip art images for your scrapbooking, DIY or other design projects. 

Blue Gillette Blades Vintage Ad

Blue Gillette Blades vintage advertisement from 1951.

"All over the world good morning begin with Gillette". Seems like even then Gillette blades were the best: "Because the sharpest edge in the world is set to exactly the wright shaving angle in a Gillette Razor".

The design of blades box looks so vintage, I can't believe it's from 1951.

Vintage cup and saucer clip art

Seems like this vintage cup and saucer used to belong to some royal family. You can place your monogram instead of royal and invite friends to your tea party with a great style.

Vintage cup and saucer

Austin Motor vintage ad

This vintage Austin car ad comes from my "The Countryman" magazine, autumn 1951 edition. The illustration featuring street and Austin car is absolutely beautiful. I have only one problem with this ad: why there is no model name. I'm not a big  expert in vintage cars, but according to wikipedia Austin models list, this one looks like post World War Two Austin A120 Princess and was produced from 1947 to 1956. 

The ad says "Austins are ahead". What an irony, back in 1951 they had no idea that marque Austin will be used only until 1987. After 1987 the Austin cars continued to be manufactured, but under the model name and without Austin badge.

Austin car vintage ad  

Vintage Austin car clip art   

I believe you can use this images only for personal or educational purposes, they are not in public domain. All rights belong to their respective owners.

Carters Invalid Furniture Advertisement

This Carters Invalid Furniture Advertisement comes prom The Countrymen, autumn 1951, page 28 and features different types of invalid chairs: wheel carrying chair, folding chair, electric carriage, self-propelling chair and hand tricycle.

Free vintage pumpkin clip art

Halloween is coming up and it's time to prepare cards and invitations. Most of the Halloween cards are in black and orange colors,  but it doesn't mean you can't use this vintage pumpkin clip art in your Halloween designs.

Vintage pumpkin clip art

The Countryman magazine, autumn 1951

In our everyday life we are sick and tired of excessive quantity of advertisements, but this magazine I bought because of ads. The Countryman, Autumn 1951 is just a treasury of vintage ads: from 224 pages 67 of advertisements. Although 62 years isn't a big gap of time,  but a lot of things have changed dramatically. In 1951 imperial portable typewriters were worth waiting for, not iPads. Flat tobacco pouches and home canning machines were bestsellers.

Some of them I'm going to post:
Austin Motor Car vintage ad
Carters Invalid Furniture Advertisement

Vintage Halloween Greeting Cards

All this vintage Halloween greeting cards signed by one illustrator E.C.Banks and were “Made in Saxony”. Actual manufacture is unknown, but all greeting cards manufactured in Germany from the mid 19th century down to the 1920’s were under “Made in Saxony”. At that time Germany was best known place for early tinted and embossed postcards and greeting cards. 

Vintage Halloween greeting card featuring a witch with broom seating near the boiling pot  

Vintage Halloween greeting card

Vintage Halloween greeting card featuring two boys with Jack O'Lanterns frightened by the ghost

Vintage Halloween greeting card featuring woman frightened by the ghosts

Image courtesy of www.postcardroundup.com and PendragonFarm

Old antique clock free clip art

Time ia money and today I'm going to save you both of them if you looking for free antique clock clip art. This is my new vintage illustration and it's available in two options: one is flat black and white clock silhouette and second is the same clock, but with vintage brush strokes. 

Vector file can be found here