Happy Halloween You Crazy Witches!

I saved my absolutely most favorite of all Halloween postcards for today!! Happy Halloween everyone, hope you have lots of spooky fun!

This is a Florence Bamberger card, and I love the crazy witches flying in front of the pumpkin moon!

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Vintage Halloween Invitation Card

Happy Halloween Eve! Just in case you need a last minute invitation for some spooky shenanigans at your house I have you covered

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Heinmuller

I think the thing I love most about this Halloween postcard is the poem! This is another by the artist Heinmuller.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Ghost Stories

I think the lesson here is, read ghost stories in the dark on Halloween at your own risk. Another amazing Ellen Clapsaddle postcard!

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Vintage Halloween - Pumpkin Rider 2

This postcard from 1913 features another pumpkin rider who is out to slay the Halloween ghouls and ghosts

This is signed Heinmuller, who produced quite a few holiday postcards around the turn of the century. I've tried to find more information about him (or her) but haven't turned up anything yet.

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Halloween Postcard - Taking a Ride

This little girl is taking a ride on a Halloween pumpkin! This looks like an early Ellen Clapsaddle postcard, but if I'm wrong please correct me.

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Vintage Halloween Pull a Root Postcard

This Halloween postcard has always intrigued me, so I tried to find exactly what this pull a root thing was. I was able to find out that in Ireland there was an obscure tradition where unmarried women would go out into the garden blindfolded to find a cabbage to pull up. If the cabbage had lots of dirt around the roots, the man they will marry will be rich. They'd then go cook the cabbage and if it was sweet the marriage would be successful, but if it was bitter...well, you know.

Sounds a little complicated to me, and I'd probably settle for a Magic 8 Ball.

The image quality is iffy, but it will print well, This is the only copy of this weird little card that I have.

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Whitney Halloween Postcard - Orange Kids

There is a series of postcards featuring these orange green haired kids. Not sure if they are supposed to be pumpkins or cute aliens? I love them though. They were published by Whitney. I really like the frame on this card.

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Halloween Witch Portrait

Portraits of Salem's latest witch photograph - Ada Ravenwhistle, proprietor of Ada's Magick Emporium on the High Street. Open midnight to six.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Pumpkin Poker

What happens at midnight in the pumpkin patch! Another Ellen Clapsaddle classic - I love this one!

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Vintage Fortune Teller Postcard

This fortune teller postcard will give you a special message if you hold it up to a mirror! It's part of a pretty big set. I have some of them but I'm always looking for the rest!

Spoiler Alert: She says "I think of nothing but you"

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Veggie Man

Mr. Veggie Pumpkin Man is ready for the big day! This is a Sander's postcard from the early 1910's. Veggie people were really popular subjects for Halloween postcards. I love them all!

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Free Halloween Junk Journal Paper

I haven't been here for a few days, I apologize.  Life kind of got crazy for a bit.  

I made a spooky spidery paper this morning. It kind of reminds me of some old wallpaper that someone forgot to dust. I hope that you can use this!

This is 8" x 8" and I'm not sure you'll get the full sized download from Facebook so you can get it from my Dropbox:

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Drunk on Halloween Wine

There's so much going on in this postcard; pumpkin men, owls, witches, dancing, devils, and what is likely a cat but looks like a frog in the lower right. I think they are all drunk on Halloween wine!

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Halloween Postcard - Boy and Cornstalk

Ok, this is my favorite too! Ellen Clapsaddle is my hero, she was so talented. I'm in love with this sweet little boy hiding behind a corn stalk on Halloween!

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Vintage Pumpkin Label

This little vintage pumpkin can label would make a great tag or scrapbook piece. It's about 3". When I get some time later I'm going to try to vector it in Illustrator so I can get the image larger. If it works I'll post it later.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Keyhole Witch

This great halloween postcard is part of a series of keyhole themed cards. I'm not sure of the artist, but I have several of them. The images are embossed and have a metallic ink border.

This one has a bit of a story to it. The witch in the image is playing an old party game where you put flour in a bowl and pack it down as hard as you can. You tip it out onto a plate and put a ring, or something else fun on top of the pile. Players use a knife to slice away the flour, and the one who makes the ring fall has to either do a stunt, or "won't get married that year", or something else. It's fun, I used to do this with my kids (we used gummy bears).

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Little Clown

This little boy looks like he's having so much fun in his Halloween costume! Another of my Ellen Clapsaddle favorites!

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Halloween Postcard - Scrying for Husbands

I was going to say that this was my favorite postcard, but I'd be lying because I love them all!!

In this one two pretty ladies are scrying on Halloween night, no doubt trying to find out who they will marry.

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Witchy Halloween Postcard

Sending you some witchy Halloween Greetings today! I love this Whitney postcard

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Halloween Greetings Postcard

This is one of my favorite Clapsaddle postcards. I love the big eyed kid and the smiling pumpkin. I think the antique and vintage Halloween images are so much better than todays.

Around the 50s and 60s the imagery started changing to cutesy, and then later on to horror. Don't get me wrong, I love a good haunted horror house (and we have some great ones around here), but the old Halloween stuff makes me nostalgic.

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Halloween Postcard - Beware of Cats!

This is from Miller Art and was published in the very early 1910s. I love the look on this trick or treater's face!

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Witch Apothecary Potion Labels - Edit Yourself

I just finished a set of Halloween potion labels that you can edit yourself using MS Word, Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, or any online editor.  These are in my Etsy shop.  They come in 3 different finishes and sizes per sheet.

Price includes a limited one crafter commercial use license, for use with craft projects that you sell.

Instructions for editing with iPiccy and MS Word included.

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Free Halloween Potion Label

Just finished a simple blank potion label - you can fill in your own deadly concoctions! I'm putting this blank Witch Apothecary label in my shop, but I wanted you all to have a copy.

This is personal use only, but if you'd like a one crafter commercial use license you can buy the file in my etsy shop. I'll have it listed a bit later on today and will leave a link here this afternoon.

*Personal use only please.

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Antique Halloween Postcard - Four Witches

Four witches (witchies!) startle a poor pumpkin man in this circa 1900 Halloween postcard.

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Free Shabby Floral Background

I made this journal page using some old wallpaper and a piece of vintage notebook paper. I think it would make a great background for a card, or a junk journal page!

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Vintage Halloween Witch Postcard

Not sure if I posted this one before, if so oops! I don't think I did though. I really like this little fortune teller witch. Not sure who the disembodied head is supposed to be. Maybe one of the Fates?

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Free Halloween Pumpkin Tags

I made some grungy pumpkin tags this morning.  I think they would look great in a fall junk journal, or scrapbook.  I hope you can use them!

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