Nothing expresses the beauty of romance better than vintage illustrations. The Graphics Fairy offers many of these images for free and I want to thank Karen for collaborating with me on this Valentine Ephemera clip art set.
We selected 4 images from her library and I then created a few silhouettes and extracted flowers, lovebirds, hearts, and leaves from their backgrounds so that the images are ready to use in your web design or digital scrapbooking projects. You will notice that I left a margin of color on several of the images because I felt they look better that way.
Here’s an example. I used some of the Valentine Ephemera to embellish these stationery textures and I love how they turned out. They’re cute homemade Valentine cards:
You’ll find many other beautiful and free graphics at The Graphics Fairy — please visit her blog. If you’re new to The Graphics Fairy, you are in for a treat!
wood frame from fuzzimo.com
stationery textures
linen texture from SKC Photography
faraco hand – dafont
apple pixel font – dafont
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Love what you’ve made with the stationery paper! It’s a mix of vintage and the new, cool! Thanks for extracting the pieces for us and making them a whole lot easier for those of us who aren’t as savvy with Photoshop. Can’t wait to see what else you’ve in store for Valentines! xo
oh hooray!
I love free graphics.
thank you katrina!
thanks again :) you’re the best !
These are awesome!! And I love how you paired them with your texture stationary! Great combo!
I feel like it’s my birthday every time I visit your blog! Thank you!
oh katrina, how lovely! I am learning to make clip-art, too, inspired by you and the graphics fairy, including a valentine (coming up soon)
These are wonderful! Thank you both for inspiring us with your clever talents.
wow katrina. They are great. Like Nakesha said..
I feel like it’s my birthday every time I visit your blog!
And it is soooooo true.
Have a great weekend. =)
all I can say is : love it, love it, love it!!!! and then double on top of it!
How nice of you to offer these! I’m sure I’ll have fun with them!
Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing these!
Wow ! It is fabulous, an incredible image, a master piece ! For sure I will use it for my FIRST virtual Party, hosted in my blog on the next February 14th. I woul like you to participate… you only have to visit my blog{www.encasadetiagretel.blogspot.com}, link your post, related to Valentine’s, and That’s all, folks ! Will you? I’d be very pleased…
Wish you a happy Sunday ;O)
Besos from Spain !
thank you, thank you :)
Absolutely beautiful! So generous, thank you.
Gorgeous, thank you so much!
Just lovely!!! I found you via The Graphics Fairy…so glad to have found you both! : )
Thanks so much! LOVELY!
Very cool article, I appreciate this.
Perfect for homemade Valentines! I just need to get started on them!
Awesome! I’ll definitely use these ones! Thank you so much for sharing! :D
Miki.
These are beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
Lovely! Thanks so much!
Just lovely; thank you!
Thank you so much! I love the separated images from Karen and use them as often as I can! You both rock! I used the Valentine images to make a sale banner for my Etsy store. Thank you!