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Old Fashioned Love Quotes and Sayings features a Creepy Victorian Cupid Image

Creating a d.i.y Valentine’s Day card? Here is a charming assortment of old-fashioned romantic love quotes and sayings sure to make any Valentine perfect. From Uncle Herbert’s Speaker and Autograph-Album Verses, 1887 Love Love is a subject to himself alone, And knows no other empire than his own. Look how the blue-eyed violets Glance love [...]

Victorian Queen of Hearts Valentine Postcard

Here is a second in the Queen of Hearts Victorian Valentine postcard series. I’ve seen others, and with all the ephemera and postcards I have here I may already have them. Sigh. I really need to organize my collection! Here is a lovely postcard that would make a great gift tag on a bouquet of [...]

Queen of my Heart Victorian Valentine Postcard Clip Art

This vintage Valentine image is part of a series of “Queen of Heart” postcards. This is the Queen of Hearts, with a spread of playing cards behind her and lovely gold embossed decorative elements, she is one of my favorites. I have one more Queen in this series that I will post here shortly, and [...]

Not sure how I would feel to be presented with such a poem… Illustrated with a vintage Valentine graphic, a Victorian postcard that you may use as royalty-free clip art. Enjoy! The Best of Reasons Why Love, my love, I love you, Not that you are sweet, Though in you all graces, All perfections meet. [...]

A Victorian poem of regret and failed romance originally published in Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine. With a vintage clip art illustration for your amusement. The Desolated By Hattie Boomer Barber, Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, November 1859 Too late I learned to prize thy worth, Too late thy faithful heart did prove; And now through [...]

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