Vintage Halloween Postcard - Witch's Dance

The Witches dance, the hoot owl screams, they bid you joy on Halloween! Hope you like this bright card with dancing pumpkin people and a pretty witch!

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Vintage French Soap Label

French soap labels were commonly printed by lithography that was popular from the early 1900s to 1950. I love framing them for bathroom decor. Hope you like this one!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Merry Halloween!

I'm really not sure what this little witch is doing. I think she's bathing in a pumpkin tureen full of soup! Whatever, she's cute!! Hope you like this one.

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Victorian Scrap - Ladies and Roses

I made a little collage sheet for you today with some late 1800 ladies, and roses. Scrapbooks were popular in the late Victorian era into the early 1900s. Germany was a huge supplier of beautifully printed, embossed scrap pages that were sold in stationery shops. The pieces were attached by thin strips of paper to make them easy to cut out. The bits were glued into large books. There are lots of old scrapbooks for sale on Ebay if you'd ever like to see what they looked like!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Husband Conjuring

A beautiful lady wistfully gazes at her future husband's face on Halloween. Hope he's a nice guy!

I love the traces of glitter left on the card. The old glitter used to be silver and tarnished easily. If you look closely there is one area of glitter that isn't tarnished and might be what the original used to look like!

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Ellen Clapsaddle Halloween Girl

I'm in full Halloween mode. I'm sorry!!! The end of August comes around and I become fully obsessed. This little Halloween girl is one of the more rare Ellen Clapsaddle postcards. She shows up, but not as often her other Halloween kids. I love the apples on strings, and the pumpkin face!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Flying Pumpkins!

Ghosty jack o lanterns on flying black cats, watch out!?! This bright, embossed postcard was published by Barton and Spooner in the early 1900s. I didn't know anything about this company, but I found out:

The company was established in 1892 by the craftsman, Harry L. Barton who manufactured wooden souvenirs. After the turn of the 20th century he took on Ralph Spooner as a partner in order to expand into commercial and art printing. They opened a factory together at 1133 Broadway in New York City. Though they printed calendars, maps and other goods there, most of their postcards were printed in Germany.

They published mostly monotone regional postcards but ventured out into some cool Halloween images as well.
(source: http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersb1.html)

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Victorian Perfume Trade Card

This is a very cool trade card in the form of a silk purse (or let's get Victorian and call it a reticule!). I always wonder what the perfumes smelled like. I'm not a big perfume person, and some scents give me a headache, but maybe this one was light and pretty!

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Halloween Dont's Vintage Postcard

Morning everybody! I think I'm sort of recovered from the college move yesterday, but I think it's going to take a bit of caffeine!

This is one of my favorite series of vintage Halloween postcards, the Halloween Dont's. Make sure you don't do any of these things on Halloween or else! The series was published around 1911 by M.L.Jackson. I'm not sure if he was the publisher or the artist. All of his postcards are vividly printed with embossing. Hope you like this one!

Here's what it says: Don't go to sleep on Halloween, but watch the way the Witches fly, If it's to the west it's all for the best, Your lover is true then go to rest. (Hmm...)

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Vintage Chocolate Trade Card

So sorry this is late today! I had to drop kids off at college and just got home. I miss them already.

Chocolate usually helps in situations like this! Hope you like this Chocolat Suchard trade card. I think the little chefs are cute!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard Witchy Cats

Another sweet Whitney postcard of Halloween cats cooking up a mousy stew!

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Vintage Fairy Queen Postcard

I love this fairy postcard! It is part of a six card Raphael Tuck set called Happy Land. If you can find one in really good condition they are worth a lot of money! I don't know the artist, but the illustration style is typical of the early 1930s.

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Clapsaddle Halloween Postcard

Ellen Clapsaddle was an amazing artist and entrepreneur, and is famous for painting adorable children. She spent time in Germany learning the illustration trade, then came home in 1901 to start her own publishing company, Wolf Publishing. It was a very successful business! Her style is widely recognized and loved.

This little girl is using an old Halloween charm.  Peel an apple, keeping the peel in one piece.  Throw it over your shoulder, and the peel will form the initial of the man you will marry.

This is one of my favorites.

Shabby Floral Tags

Sorry I'm late with this today. Had some Saturday morning errands. Hope you like the faded floral tags! I think they are pretty sweet (in a disheveled) sort of way.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard - Good Luck

I love this adorable Whitney Halloween postcard. The witch doesn't look scary at all 🧙‍♀️

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Vintage Paper Doll Postcard

Raphael Tuck published a series of cat paper doll postcards portraying children's stories. In this one, the heroic tabby dresses as Alladin! The artist was Louis Wain, who was famous for his beautiful cat paintings. This was published in the 1930s.

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Halloween Postcard - Girl and Candle

Halloween used to be the time to conjure up who you were going to marry. There are lots of ways to do this involving apple peels, chestnuts, and mirrors. In this case, at midnight you would stand facing away from a mirror, light a candle, take 3 steps backward, say something witchy, then look over your shoulder into the mirror. You would then see your future husband.

I can just picture this, the girl looks over her shoulder, sees Mr. Pumpkin man saying "Hi Babe" and faints!!!

This postcard was painted by Frances Brundage (one of my favorite illustrators) and published by Raphael Tuck.

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Shabby Rose Card

Got my shabby on this morning. I really adore roses, pink, and old paper. This was fun to make, and I promise in the future I'll do a photoshop tutorial to show you how to do this. Hope you have fun with the card! I think it would look great as a journal card in a scrapbook.

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Vintage Halloween Postcard

I hope you don't mind all of the Halloween stuff. It's my favorite time of the year, and when I find something spooky cool, I have to share it 🎃

This was published by Whitney. You can tell by the illustration style.  Still not sure who the artist was. Hope you like it! I removed the text also, so you can add your own or use it for a Halloween journal card.

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Handmade Halloween Ornaments

I finished making some cute Halloween ornaments from pipe cleaners and my own clipart.  I sell these in my other Etsy shop.     Buy handmade Halloween ornaments here!

Winsch Halloween Postcard 1911

John Winsch was a postcard publisher in business between about 1907 to 1915. He used various artists, including Samuel Schmucker, for his cards. I think this card is Schmucker's, it looks like his work. I love this one!

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Vintage Sewing Trade Card

I bet this little girl always uses Goff's Silko braid! I removed the lettering so you could add your own :-) Hope you like this one!

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Vintage Halloween Witch Postcard - Red Lantern

I have a lot of favorite Halloween postcards, but this is near the top of the list. Published by Landsdorf in early 1900's, this is part of a series of lantern witches. Each postcard has a witch with a different color lantern, and what your fate will be if you happen to see her.

These postcards are really hard to find in good condition. They were embossed I believe, and there's usually lots of chipping. Most of the ones I've found are too damaged for me to restore properly, but this one was in great shape.

They also had glitter, and you can see remnants around the witch and the moon. I'm always on the hunt for the other lantern colors!

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Vintage Halloween Postcard

There are several versions of this Taggart postcard, the most common one I've seen has a witch inside the pumpkin. This one features two rather surprised kids who will probably end up kissing unexpectedly! This was published in 1908.

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Free Shabby Journal Card

I almost forgot to post this today! Sorry about that!  

I made another journal card by photoshopping vintage postcard, then added an aged background and a dot overlay.  This is a very different style than what I sell in my Etsy shop, and I like doing these because it gets me thinking.  I love shabby graphics so I'm like, what am I going to make today and how do I get it looking vintage.

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Vintage Shabby Rose Card

This was an old Christmas postcard that I shabbied up for you.  This would make a really pretty greeting card, a background for a collage, or even a journal card.

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Halloween Pumpkin Witch Postcard Free Download

This is one of the slightly less common pumpkin girl postcards that Whitney published. I have no idea what the black hoodoo is, maybe the magic she's cooking up in the cauldron? Anyway, hope you like it!!

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Vintage Shabby Journal Card with Baby Birds

This postcard features a pair of vintage angry birds! I think they're really cute. I added a background and thought it would make a pretty journal card.

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Vintage Butterfly Card

We've had so many pretty butterflies in the backyard this summer. Big Monarchs, and Swallowtails. I was really happy to find this postcard full of flutterbys! I added an aged background. Hope you like it!!

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Vintage Busy Bees ABC Children's Book

This is one of the many children's books that were published by Raphael Tuck in the early part of the 1900s. One of my favorite things about this illustration is the way Busy Bees is drawn. Hope you like it!

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Vintage Halloween Precautions Postcard

The elusive E. Nash was a postcard publisher around the early 1910s and is famous for his series of Halloween postcards, both the Halloween Don'ts, and Halloween Precautions. This is one of the 6 Precautions postcards. He also published many other holiday cards.

The Don'ts and Precautions are all really quirky. This one says: Avoid grinning black cats on a full green moon, If your lover is true he'll come back soon, It breaks the charm, the witches scream, and never return till next Halloween.

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Vintage Rose Frame Free Download

Happy August!  I can't believe the summer is half way over.  Makes me sad, but I love fall too!

I have a vintage postcard that has the prettiest rose frame. Here is the original (I recolored it, the background was a really dull grey) and the frame with the center removed. Hope you can use this!

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