Victorian christmas cards

At Christmas, what better use of the internet is there than to share some hilariously creepy Christmas card art? Terrify your children with these classics.

I have always had a fascination for antique postcards ~ any holiday...but the Christmas ones are quite strange indeed. From their morbidity, to the just plain strange! here are a few that have made me say... "....Hmmmm...." I mean, creepy walking root-vegetable men? or how about a kidnapping santa? this one cracks me up - just look at their little legs! a little too much eggnog perhaps? and doesn't a cat-fight outside a tenement window just scream Happy Christmastide? or would you prefer a…

Today, you will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You know what, scratch that. We’re experiencing the present, and the future is too unpredictable. Let’s just focus on the past!

New Year's greetings from a...turnip? Potato? With...riding boots and an umbrella? Something to consider as you select holiday cards this year: in a hundred years, will someone be really perplexed by what you've picked out?

Victorian Christmas cards and trade cards

Who needs Jolly Old Saint Nick when you have evil Krampus kidnapping your children and frogs committing murder! It's all part of a Victorian Christmas. More

This item is an **Instant Digital Download** No physical item will be shipped. *Each image in my shop is unique and one-of-a-kind. These images are not available anywhere else.* This kit has 25 images of nostalgic Victorian Christmas images for you to use in your journals, card making, scrap booking, or crafting. AI generated images. What you will receive: 5 zip folders Each folder has multiple printable pages with one image on each page. 8.5 inch x 11 inch NOTE: No papers are mailed to you…

Just in time for New Years comes the cap wearing bat riding baby jockeys to help you have a brighter year...or something like that. I have a feeling there's a story behind this postcard from the 1890's. Let me know if you find out. Uh, don't forget to close the windows before you go to bed on New Years...

Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards but in Victorian times it was all par for the course.