The Seasons brings together five charming mini collections of vintage illustrations celebrating the changing year.
Children gather spring flowers, wander through summer meadows, harvest autumn grapes, play in the snow, skip rope on a January day, and enjoy all sorts of small adventures throughout the seasons.
Carefully restored and newly gathered into one generous collection, these illustrations retain the wonderful color, printing texture, irregularities and character of the original antique ephemera. Use them on their own or combine them with your own photographs, papers, typography and other elements for collage, journaling, snail mail, paper crafts, digital design and more.
38 unique vintage illustrations & design elements + 18 alternate text-free versions — 56 files in all.
4 Girls 4 Seasons
Four delightful vintage girls representing Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, each surrounded by beautiful seasonal flowers, foliage and details.
4 JPEG illustrations
The 4 Seasons
Four charming seasonal scenes of children enjoying the changing year, from gathering flowers and wading in the water to autumn outings and snowy winter days.
Also included are four coordinatingBlendable PNGs—artistic compositions combining the illustrations with layered vintage textures, handwriting, maps and painterly details. Their transparent, softly blended edges make them especially fun for layering into your own designs.
4 JPEG illustrations + 4 PNG Blendables
Les Mois
A wonderful series of 12 vintage French trade cards—one for each month of the year—featuring boys and girls engaged in seasonal outdoor activities.
The original cards retain the charmingLes Mois title and French month names. You'll also receive12 additional versions with the text removed, giving you greater flexibility for your own designs. The irregular card edges have been preserved against transparent backgrounds so they can be layered naturally over other papers and imagery.
12 original PNGs + 12 text-free PNG versions
Girl Seasonal
Four vintage girls enjoying seasonal outdoor activities, each surrounded by its own decorative frame.
Thefour decorative frames are also included separately, ready to use with your own photographs, artwork and other design elements.
4 illustrated PNGs + 4 separate frame PNGs
Victorian Seasonals
Six delightful Victorian trade cards featuring children in outdoor scenes throughout the seasons. The original cards retain their period advertising text for theHome Insurance Company, New York.
You'll also receivesix text-free versions for more versatile creative use.
6 original JPEGs + 6 text-free JPEG versions
56 files total
38 unique illustrations & design elements
18 alternate text-free versions
Files are supplied ashigh-quality PNGs and JPEGs, depending on the original artwork and intended use.
Image sizes vary from approximately2250 to 3800 pixels. Individual dimensions and file formats are shown in the product previews.
Transparent PNGs are used where transparency adds useful creative flexibility, includingLes Mois, the seasonal frames and the Blendables.
These illustrations are lovely simply printed and enjoyed as little pieces of vintage art, but they're also wonderful ingredients for creative projects. Try them in digital or paper collage, junk journals and altered books, scrapbook and pocket-style pages, greeting cards, seasonal correspondence and snail mail, tags, bookmarks, invitations, stationery, mixed-media artwork and your own layered designs.
Print aLes Mois card as a little enclosure for a handwritten letter. Add your own photograph to one of the decorative seasonal frames. Tuck a Victorian child into a collage or journal page. Or simply let one beautiful illustration be the focus of a card or small print.
Vintage Delights brings some of my favorite imagery from my vintage archive together in thoughtfully curated collections. These are illustrations I've collected, restored and prepared over many years—chosen because they still delight me and deserve a life beyond the original ephemeral paper on which they were printed.
A note for longtime customers: The five mini collections included in The Seasons were previously published separately. They have now been gathered together and newly packaged as one Vintage Delights collection, with selected artwork refreshed and additional versions included where noted.
