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Spooky Fun With Halloween Cards

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Let's Step Back In Time To The "Golden Age" of Halloween

Fun, food and frolic were the mandates during the "Golden Age" of Halloween (1875 - 1935). What was originally a pagan ritual celebration had turned into a fun, spooky holiday filled with fortune telling rituals and amusing party events. This is when a showcase of stylistic graphic designs appeared on Halloween greeting cards, post cards, invitations, and decorations.

The Halloween cards enticed curiosity and excitement, while creating an atmosphere of spooky, mysterious, secrecy. Join me as we explore more of these Vintage designs, as well as discovering resources for printable cards and templates (both modern and vintage) that you can use.

Viintage Halloween Post Cards From Amazon

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Free Printable Halloween Card Templates

These are great for greeting cards, invitations, and favor tags.

Halloween Craft Projects Templates
These feature scary or fun pumpkin faces, ghosts, goblins, or ghouls. You can print your own Halloween party decorations and get templates to carve a pumpkin. Download free templates a variety of Halloween craft projects.

Mint Printables
Free printable Halloween cards featuring pumpkins, Victorian images, and a decorated front door.

Halloween Internet Family Fun
Download and print out these free halloween party invitations. Halloween invitations are in Adobe Acrobat file format.

Halloween Cards 101 From Printfree.com
Very nice cards that you can customize online before printing.

Sayings and Greetings To Use On Your Cards

Try out these verses and ryhmes when you're not sure what to say.

A Halloween party there's going to be,
And we want you there as sure as can be;
There'll be joy and laughter by the ton
Please say you will come and join the fun!

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Come to the haunted house
Where even the moon is shy
There'll be goblins there to greet you
When you hear the black cat cry

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When stars shoot and owls hoot
And bats fly in and out,
When fire's blue and candles too,
Then witches are about!

More vintage Halloween verses can be found here.

Halloween Greeting Cards at Cafepress!

These beautiful greeting card images are also available on tote bags, mugs, magnets, journals, and postcards.
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Video Halloween Card

Who says cards need to be on paper... or emailed?

This is a really good video. The animation and effects are very cool.
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Ebay Sends You Halloween Greetings

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Add Halloween Stickers and Graphics To Your Creations!

Jazz up your homemade or printed cards with some extra embellishments.

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Create Homemade Halloween Invitations

Are you ready to make your own invitations and cards? These might help spark some ideas.

When it comes to Halloween party invitations you have three options: a) you can buy invitations at the store; b) you can craft them by hand being as creative and elaborate as you like; 3) you can create some very cool invites using a computer graphics program and printing them out yourself. These links should provide you with some ideas on the types of invitations you can make (or buy) that fit with your chosen Halloween party theme.

Ideas For Making Your Own Spider Party Invitations
Thinking of having a creepy, crawly party that involves spiders? Then you'll love making these great spider party invitations. There's 3 designs to choose from.

Friendly Fiendish Invites: Making Monster Party Invitations
Invite your favorite monsters to your Halloween shindig this year. There's even an invitation inviting themselves to a monster movie night!

Look Into Your Future: Fortune Teller Party Invitations
Fortune telling and Halloween just naturally compliment each other. Here are a couple of invites that are easy to create by hand or on a computer for that gyspy-style fortune telling party.

Pumpkin Invitations For Your Halloween Party
Whether you're having a pumpkin patch party for the little ones... or a get-together with a bunch of evil-grinning jack-o-lanterns, these invitations are the perfect choice.

Card Making Software

Do it the easy way - on your computer!

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Halloween Quotes

Eat, drink and be scary.
~Author Unknown

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October's days.
~Author Unknown

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."
~Linus Van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Learn What's In Store For Your Future

Here are some different types of Halloween cards...

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Check Out Some of These Halloween Card Ideas

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More Halloween Verses For Cards

A gypsy fire is on the hearth,
Sign of the carnival of mirth;
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade,
For this is Hallowe'en!
~Author Unknown

When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
'tis near Halloween.
~Author Unknown

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween.
~Author Unknown

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright
Of soft and golden hue
Pierce through the future's veil and show
What fate now holds for you.
~Author Unknown

On Hallowe'en the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you
And if somethin' scares you and you want to run
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.
~Author Unknown

Halloween on Squidoo

These are a few more of my Halloween Lenses. Enjoy!

Halloween Treats and Recipes
Witches, vampires, ghosts and goblins - feed all your little (and big) monsters some tasty Halloween treats.

Halloween Superstitions
How superstitious are you? Discover some interesting folklore and odd superstions related to Halloween.

Leave a Halloween Greeting!

  • rms Aug 27, 2008 @ 8:53 am | delete
    So glad to welcome you to my Vintage Postcards group!
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