Miss Mary's Victorian and Vintage Image Archive » In Good Season

A Fancy Victorian Valentine’s Day Card

Miss Mary — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:39:19 +0000

Are you in a pinch for a Valentine’s Day card? This beauty is printable as-is, or download and incorporate it into your own new creation.

Fancy Victorian Valentine's Day Card

This is a lovely dimensional Victorian card. The background was die-cut, and then layered with different lacy papers atop a colorful chromolithographic insert.

When Love Grows Cold

Miss Mary — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:51:08 +0000

A comical vintage Victorian postcard, the title of which is “When Love Grows Cold.” This version is tinted, in my postcard hunting travels I’ve seen the same image as a monotone image.

This scene depicts snow. I haven’t seen much of the real thing in the Philadelphia area, so I may need to print this out and keep it by my desk as a reminder.

When Love Grows Cold

Victorian Cupid Postcard

Miss Mary — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:44 +0000

A charming vintage Victorian cupid postcard for your clip art crafting needs. A blond cupid, bow and arrows in hand, giving you a longing look from within a heart surrounded by little blue forget-me-nots and hearts. It reads:

I Love you dearly as you can see

But the question is–do you love me?

To My Valentine.

Antique Victorian Post Card Clip Art

Click on the image above for the larger clip art file.

Romantic Vintage Couple

Miss Mary — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:17:50 +0000

Here is a charming old-fashioned couple in this vintage 19th century trade card. Perfect free Valentine clip art image to get a head-start on crafting those Valentine’s.

Click on the image above to download the larger file. Colors restored so this is one beautiful printable as it is.

New Sketchbook Jack

Miss Mary — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:49:06 +0000

Crayola Love Jack

Miss Mary — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:35:36 +0000

Clifton Jack

Miss Mary — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:13:13 +0000

I roughed out this idea earlier today. I attended a screening of the Quay Brothers new Mutter Museum documentary at, where else, the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia this evening and knew that I would get in too late to create.

This sketch captures my feelings about an incident that took place in Clifton Heights, my home town, last night. I plan on picking this idea back up tomorrow, but for now I must retire–so tired!!!!

Ultra-Bright Jack

Miss Mary — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:23:21 +0000

Joy!

After forgetting to pick up dry cat food for ma kittehs, I was forced to trudge down to the local Kmart. And having been fortunate enough to have avoided the place for a month or so, I wandered around a little to confirm my suspicion that I hadn’t been missing much.

But I was wrong–there, in the lame excuse for a stationary section, I found a Crayola product I had not seen before: Extreme Colors Ultra-Bright colored pencils! Very vibrant colors, but would they glow under black light? At $3.99 for a box of eight, it was a risk I was willing to take. And I’m happy to report that all of the colors glow fabulously, much better than the iPhone photographs on this page can convey.

Under the black light, the pencil marks are not as apparent and the color glows brightly, even the blue (wish I could say the same for the blue Copic fluorescent marker–a dud!). The illustration above was first sketched out with the Copic fluorescent orange marker the mouth is Copic fluorescent pink. The rest is the Crayola.

Wonder how they would work on nice black paper? Must investigate!