Free Vintage Illustrated Holiday Templates: Christmas Reindeer and Victorian Santa's Parade Decorative Borders for Cardmaking or Gift Tags

Well, we were supposed to go out today and get Christmas cards to accompany our gifts but a winter storm has descended with a vengeance on southern Ontario so I stayed home and prepared these Victorian Christmas cards instead. If you're housebound like me, print these on your printer for last-minute card and gift exchanges or go paperless and email them to relatives and friends!

The first card above has a Christmas reindeer decorative border on the upper part of the card and stylized Christmas trees on the bottom part of the card. To download the high-res 6" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark, please click here.

The second card shows a decorative border illustrated with images from a Victorian Santa Claus Parade with Santa himself, fabulous gifts and magical beings galore. To download this whimsical card without any words, please click here.


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Free Vintage Illustrated Holiday Card and Template: Whimsical Christmas Menu, 1889

A black and white illustration for a whimsical Christmas "menu" from December 1889 with the following items:
Snowy Streets, Starry Skies
Holidays; with Source of Joy
*** -- ***
Forefathers; pickled in Praise
*** -- ***
Shopping; en Masse
Cards and Banners with Greetings
*** -- ***
Stockings á la Santa Claus
Festivals; merry with Fir-trees and Mistletoe
Gifts; flavored with Love
*** -- ***
Back-Logs, served whole
*** -- ***
Peace and Good-will; dressed
with Charity
*** -- ***
Carols; Sweet :: :: Chiming Bells
I have included both the original card with the full menu, and one where I have removed the menu items in case you want to use it as a template for other projects. Can be used for recipe cards, gift tags, as a menu at a festive dinner or in scrapbooking.

To download the high-res 5" x 4" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark, please click here for the menu card with words and here for the blank Christmas card template.


Vintage ephemera is from my personal collection. All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.

Free Printable Victorian Fashion History Illustration: When We Were Young, 1886

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.
Memories need to be shared.
― Lois Lowry, The Giver
An antique black and white illustration from 1886 that shows three Victorian ladies sharing a memory of their childhood. An image of the three ladies as girls is shown in the drawing below the portraits of the ladies wearing their fancy hats. Both the drawings of the ladies and of the girls are enclosed within a frame of curving leaves and grasses. From my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée.

You can download the free ready-to-print 4" x 5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without any watermark here. Great for cardmaking, crafts or image transfers, as well as junk journaling and scrapbooking projects.


All digitized work by Victorian Trends.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Free for personal use only. Please link back to VictorianTrends.com as your source when sharing or publishing.