Illustrated Announcement Template: Birds of Winter Illustrated Border

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?
And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt;
and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Late 19th century illustrated border showing a flock of birds on the snowy branches of a tree.From my personal collection. Can be used for announcements or invitations. High-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any words/watermark can be found here.


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Free Vintage Garden-Themed Birthday Greeting Card: Nature's Fair Picture

HAPPY RETURNS
May the fair and glowing pictures
Nature paints o'er all the land,
Be the symbol of the beauty
Life shall paint with skilled hand.

Very pretty vintage birthday card from the early 20th century featuring a young woman with a bouquet of pink flowers surrounded by a floral border of cream and gold. You can download the high-res 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Illustrated Template for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Junk Journaling or Scrapbooking: Calling the Flowers

Calling the Flowers illustrated template on lightly textured, painted paper.
High-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any words/watermark can be found here.
Template featuring vintage garden poem by Mary A. Lathbury here.


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Illustrated Template for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Junk Journaling or Scrapbooking: Vintage Poppies Border with Old Paper Texture

Vintage Poppies Border on Aged Vintage Paper with Painted Texture
High-res 12" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.

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Illustrated Template for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Junk Journaling or Scrapbooking: A Rainy Day 1

The rain is falling all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
Lightly distressed ilustrated template showing a girl walking in the rain with a large umbrella. Surrounding her portrait are two birds on a branch, a butterfly on a leaf, a hen and her chicks, and a flock of ducks heading into a pond.

Download and print for altered art, junk journaling or scrapbooking, or to use in various other design projects with a vintage nature theme. High-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG available to monthly subscribers here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Graphic Design, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Blackberries and Marauding Bunnies in the Garden!

When the enemy presents an opportunity,
speedily take advantage of it.
Anticipate him in seizing something he values
and move in accordance with a date secretly fixed.
The doctrine of war is to follow the enemy situation
in order to decide on battle.
Therefore at first be shy as a maiden.
When the enemy gives you an opening be swift as a hare
and he will be unable to withstand you.
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Ilustrated template showing a fluffle of bunnies running away from a group of children in the garden. There is a branch of ripening blackberries drawn across a small blank rectangle on the left side of the page.

Download and print for announcements, invitations, journaling, scrapbooking or other design projects with a vintage nature theme.You can download the high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Graphic Design, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Free to Fly

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.
Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.
And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices,
but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Ilustrated template featuring antique paper and a Victorian lady allowing a bird to fly free from its cage. Download and print for announcements, invitations, journaling, scrapbooking or other design projects with a vintage nature theme.You can download the high-res 12" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Aged Paper Background for Graphic Design, Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Bees in the Meadow Poem and English Meadow Landscape Illustration

BEES IN THE MEADOW
by MRS. SANGSTER
Bees in the meadow,
Birds on the bough,
Bloom on the hill-side ―
Play-time is now.

Stones in the pasture,
Weeds in the bed;
Haying and harvest,
Hard work ahead.

Loud sings the robin,
"If you'd be gay,
Take the work, lad
The heart of the play."

Aged paper background with a combination of different vintage scraps, including a nature poem from 1881 and an illustration of an English meadow from 1887. You can download the free high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here for graphic design, journaling, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.


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Free Illustrated Templates for Graphic Design, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Recipe Cards with Vintage Illustrations of Kale

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems.
Nothing is worth diminishing your health.
Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

If you feel like making something healthy this weekend, here are a couple of recipe card templates to help you jot down your cooking notes and thoughts. The cards feature two vintage botabical illustrations of kale from c1900. The first variety of borecole is a dwarf green curled Scotch kale. Borecole has very frizzy curled deep green leaves held on sturdy plants which need no staking.The older larger leaves will be more bitter so best to use only young leaves. You can find a simple borecole and potato salad recipe here.

The second recipe card features a variety of borecole known as "brown curled kale." I still see seeds for brown varieties of lettuce but I have never come across seeds for a brown kale. This may be an heirloom variety that has died out as it became unpopular? If anyone knows of a supplier, please feel free to leave a note in the comments. Here is a delicious-sounding recipe for kale with browned butter, garlic and pan-fried walnuts.

You could print the cards for recipes but you might also use them for gift tags, invitations, journaling or scrapbooking.You can find the free high-res 7" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark here and here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Graphic Design, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Kids in the Garden 1

However many years she lived,
Mary always felt that she should never forget
that first morning when her garden began to grow.
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Two-page illustrated template featuring Victorian children in the garden. Download and print for announcements, invitations, journaling, scrapbooking or other design projects with a vintage garden theme.You can find the high-res 11" x 8.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Vintage Garden-Themed Greeting Card: A Happy Thought 2

A HAPPY THOUGHT
The World is so full
of a number of things
I'm sure we should all
be as happy as kings.

A vintage greeting card from the early 20th century (1925). The card is decorated with an illustration of two vibrant daffodils on their leafy stems.

Can be used as a postcard or gift tag but also lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Vintage Garden-Themed Greeting Card: Like Flowers Bright on Easter Day

BEST EASTER WISHES
May happiness adorn your way
Like flowers bright on Easter Day

A vintage greeting postcard from 1930 showing a little girl holding a basket of flowers running through a garden path lined with tulips, clasping the paw of the Easter bunny. Can be used as a postcard or gift tag but also lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

I've also included the back of the original vintage postcard in case you want to use it as a background for a creative project. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Free Vintage Garden-Themed Greeting Card: A Happy Thought

A HAPPY THOUGHT
Happiness and friends most true
Surely they are your just due
May I wish for you today
A gladness that will come and stay

A vintage greeting card from the early 20th century (c1920). The decorative border at the top of the card shows a house surrounded by a lovely garden. Can be used as a postcard or gift tag but also lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Graphic Design, Poetry Writing or Scrapbooking: Victorian Walled Garden with Fuchsia, Primroses and Morning Glories

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well
in the hardest hours of grief.
But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window,
or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed,
or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
― Colette
A gorgeously illustrated floral border from a Victorian magazine published on April 21, 1883. The drawing shows a profusion of blooming flowers (fuchsias, primroses, morning glories) around an opening in an ancient brick wall, like those found in traditional English gardens.

Download and print for announcements, invitations, journaling, poetry writing, scrapbooking or other design and literary projects with a vintage garden theme.You can find the high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Spring-Inspired Graphic Design or Scrapbooking Projects: Art Nouveau Daffodils in Vintage Planter (Paper Whites, Narcissus, Spring Flowers)

Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within,
as on the state of things without and around us.
― Charlotte Brontë
An antique illustrated floral border that shows stylized art nouveau white daffodils (narcissus) with red centres in a pot-bellied planter. Lovely for spring-inspired journaling, scrapbooking or graphic design projects with a vintage feel. You can download the high-res 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Garden and Nature Journals, Scrapbook Page or Spring Graphic Design Projects: Cheery Robin Decorative Border

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Lovely antique border showing a cheerful robin perched on still-bare branches singing a song to welcome in the spring. You can use this to decorate a journal or scrapbook page but it is also useful for spring-themed announcements such as for baby and wedding showers, yard sales and community get-togethers.

You can find the high-res 8.5" x 11" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Free Illustrated Template for Cardmaking, Collage, Graphic Design or Junk Journaling: A Little Happier Verse with Poppy Field Decorative Border

This image was extracted from an art nouveau style vintage postcard in my personal collection. The decorative border shows an L-shaped row of stylized red poppies with a lush summer meadow and billowy clouds in the background. On the upper right side of the page is a little verse that says:

“A little happier, a few more friends,
A little richer, In the blessings Heaven sends...”
I think this would make a wonderful background for a journal or scrapbooking page but you could also use it in a greeting card project. You can download the high-res 12" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG here.

Here is a New Year card I made with it:

Happy New Year of the Rabbit 2023!


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Free Vintage Tags for Cardmaking, Journaling or Scrapbooking: Victorian Girls in the Garden (Set #2)

I did nothing but comfort my plants, till now their small green cheeks are covered with smiles.
― Emily Dickinson
A second set of antique gift tags that feature girls in the garden. Tag one shows a girl with a little yellow bird perched on her finger with pink flowers growing bhind her and little pots of red flowers in front of her. Tag two features a girl sitting under a clump of magnificent orange-red lilies, chin propped on the backs of her hands, staring out at you with a solemn intensity.

These vintage illustrations make great as gift tags but you could also use them as bookmarks, greeting cards, plant markers (if you laminate them) or to decorate scrapbook pages. You can download the high-res 3" x 4.5" @ 300 ppi JPEGs here and here. If you are looking for the first set of girls in the garden tags, you can find that set here.


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Free Vintage Illustrated Template for Cardmaking or Scrapbooking: Blue Campanulas on Aged Paper

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you,
and to give thanks continuously.
And because all things have contributed to your advancement,
you should include all things in your gratitude.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Campanulas, a popular flower in traditional cottage gardens, are often associated with gratitude. They are also given as symbols of affection, as they represent constancy and everlasting love. Here is a pre-made template that merges a botanical illustration of a violet-blue campanula on a distressed old paper texture.

You can download the free high-res 12" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. This vintage template can be used as a background for cardmaking or junk journaling but can also be used for announcements and other graphic design projects.


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Free Vintage Illustrated Template: Thanksgiving Invitation or Harvest Menu Template with Stylized Grapevine Border

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?
― Lailah Gifty Akita
A pait of illustrated borders, originally published in a printer's manual circa 1900, that features stylized bunches of grapes nestled in thick masses of grapevines and leaves. Great for decorating invitations to Thanksgiving dinner but could also be used to display menus, as place cards, to feature recipes or as decorative frames for a journal page?

Download this free high-resolution 11" x 8.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. You can insert words by opening the file in any graphic or text editing app. I recommend printing on heavy card stock.


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