This beautiful vintage birthday postcard features a pink rose facing downward. The tips of the rose are immersed in water. The message on the postcard is: Birthday Greetings. For additional creative options, here is a version of the postcard without the birthday message. Click on images to enlarge.
Flowers
Marsh Marigold and Daisy
Here is a beautiful vintage botanical illustration of dark yellow marsh marigolds and white daisies. The image is from Familiar Wild Flowers by F. Edward Hulme, circa 1890. Click on image to enlarge.
June Rose ~ Vintage Postcard Image
This beautiful vintage postcard features an illustration of roses intertwined in a golden design on a blue background. The message on the card is: JuneRoseTo crownit all theybring herhealthPEARLSfor the girlof Junemeans wealth. Click on image to enlarge.
Blue Forget-Me-Nots ~ Vintage Postcard Image
This vintage birthday postcard features a square vase that is filled with beautiful blue Forget-Me-Nots. The message on the postcard is: Birthday Best Wishes. Click on image to enlarge.
Hollyhock Flower Child
Here is a shabby vintage storybook page that includes an illustration of a lovely Hollyhock flower child. The page also includes the following short poem: STATELY Lady Hollyhock,In a lovely colored frock,Taught her children every dayPrecisely what to do and say. Here is a cleaner version of the hollyhock flower child. The page is from…
Pink Flowers in Blue Vase
This beautiful vintage postcard features an illustration of pink flowers in a blue vase on a turquoise and beige background. Click on image to enlarge.
Victorian Calling Cards
Here are two beautiful Victorian calling cards. The first one features an illustration of two white birds sitting on a green basket that is filled with blue forget-me-nots and pink roses. A hand is reaching toward the basket and there is a note with the message: Sweet remembrance! tucked between the birds. The second calling…
Peony Clip Art
Here are beautiful vintage clip art illustrations of three varieties of peonies.Fig. 2 represents a flowering branch of Peony Albiflora; Fig. 5. represents a flowering branch of Peony Tenuifolia Flore-Pleno;and Fig. 6. represents a flowering branch of Peony Wittmanniana. The images are from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited…
Roses Clip Art
This vintage page includes advertising for reproductions of Lida Clarkson’s Colored Studies and Ingall’s Home Magazine. The page features a black and white engraving of Lida Clarkson’s beautiful Study of Roses. Here is a black and white clip art version of the illustration of roses from the page. My original scan is from the January…
Chrysanthemum Flower Child ~ Storybook Page
Here is a shabby vintage storybook page that includes an illustration of a beautiful Chrysanthemum flower child. The page also includes the following short poem: CHRYSANTHEMUM is Japanese,She’s a fine lady, if you please;She comes to see us once a year,About the time Thanksgiving’s here. Here is a cleaner version of the chrysanthemum flower child….
Purple Flowers in Square Vase
This vintage birthday postcard features a square white vase that is filled with beautiful purple flowers. The message on the postcard is: Birthday Greetings. Click on image to enlarge.
Shabby Victorian Calling Cards
Here are two beautifully aged and shabby Victorian calling cards. Each card includes a floral design on the left and a name written in a fancy calligraphy font. The name on the first card is Regina Hofer. Here is a version of the card without the name. The name on the second card is Clemens…
