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 

Old-Fashioned Halloween Cards: 24 Cards

Images from early 20th century: kids and cats, witches and bats, apple dunking, fortune-telling, ghosts, pranks, and more.

Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear Postcard Book

Romantic vintage images are featured on this lovely Halloween postcard book.

Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

Halloween Postcard Book

During the great era of postcard publishing (which dated from the 1890s until World War I) uncountable different designs for postcards were produced. We present here some of our favorites from that time.

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

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.

Old Crone Greeting Cards (Pk of 10)

Greeting Cards (Pk of 10)

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Black Cat Greeting Cards (Pk of 10)

Greeting Cards (Pk of 10)

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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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Add Halloween Stickers and Graphics To Your Creations! 

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

Old-Fashioned Halloween Stickers: 67 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs

Add a bit of Halloween magic to notes, cards, party invitations and more with this collection of charming, old-timey stickers. Select from witches on broomsticks, youngsters in costumes and carving pumpkins, black cats, and, naturally, jack-o'-lanterns with a variety of expressions.

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Old-Time Halloween Illustrations CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)

A nostalgic look back at All Hallows Eve, 178 old-fashioned images will lend spellbinding charm to a cauldron-full of Halloween projects! Delight in full-color holiday scenes starring spooky pumpkins, black cats, trick-or-treaters, flying bats, watchful owls, and other illustrations touched with an enchanting, antique air.

Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

Halloween: Vintage Holiday Graphics (Icons)

A guaranteed trip down memory lane, this book celebrates All Hallows' Eve in American graphic and print media from the early 1900s to the '60s. Featuring witches, ghouls, ghosts, and jack-o-lanterns, the scariest postcards and decorations, the silliest costumes and candid photos are collected here.

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Jolees Boutique Themed Simple Stickers, Halloween Essentials

Jolee's Boutique Dimensional stickers make your scrapbook pages and paper crafts come alive with mixed-media sticker collections!

Amazon Price: $7.26 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

Old-Time Halloween Stickers: 25 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs

Irresistible collection for anyone who delights in celebrating this fun-filled holiday. Charming turn-of-the-century illustrations include a variety of cats and pumpkin faces, black-robed witches in pointy hats, delightful youngsters in a holiday mood and more.

Amazon Price: $1.50 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

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!

Printmaster - Platinum Version 18 [OLD VERSION]

Design and make fabulous greeting cards, seasonal gifts and digital scrapbooks. Contains more than 21,000 project templates, more than 305,000 included premium images and more than 2,500 fonts.

Amazon Price: $33.49 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

Hallmark Card Studio 2005 Deluxe

Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2005 makes it easy to create your own one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards for anyone, on any occasion, within minutes! Capture life's special moments in beautiful photo frames, to commemorate any event.Enhance your cards and envelopes with dozens of exclusive images. Import your own photos and use them as artwork for your cards and projects -- it's fast, easy and fun! Browse through 5,000 exclusive Clip Art pieces to find the perfect image Work with 1,000 new designs and exclusive Hallmark fonts - it's fast, easy and fun

Amazon Price: $9.75 (as of 12/18/2009) Buy Now

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...

The Halloween Tarot Deck and Book Set

Black cats, ghosts, and jack o'lanterns offer enchantment and light-hearted perspectives in this lively tarot deck and book set. Book contains 148 pages, illustrated.

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The Halloween Tarot

Follow the black cat through the Halloween Tarot! The artwork conjures up all that's fun about Halloween. The Minor Arcana suits are Pumpkins, Imps, Ghosts, and Bats.

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Sensual Wicca Tarot Deluxe

Vivid imagery with a hint of eroticism blends with Pagan themes in this tarot deck. Heed the wisdom of the Great Goddess and the Horned God. Encounter the mysteries of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone. Let the sacred Sabbats guide you.

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Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Playing Cards

Vintage deck of 52 cards with miniature cards in the upper left corners and descriptive pictures with meanings on the remaining portions of the cards. Also suitable as a regular decd of playing cards. Includes instructions.

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Tarot of the Witches Deck/Tarot Cards

The cards depict dreamlike fantasies with bold colors and fanciful paintings. The style is similar to that of the surrealist movement. One of our most popular decks!

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Necronomicon Tarot

The Necronomicon Tarot brings the phantasmagoric desert wanderings of Alhazred to life in a stunningly visceral deck and companion book. Seventy-eight captivating illustrations by fantasy artist Anne Stokes capture the mythic and monstrous world of Tyson's Necronomicon while remaining true to the underlying structure and tradition of tarot. Prepare to enter a world where the accursed and tormented poet wanders in search of the greatest and darkest magic - divination with the dead. This kit includes 78-card tarot deck with a black organdy bag and 240-page companion tarot book.

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The Gothic Tarot

This visually stunning deck contains all 78 cards of the Major and Minor Arcana, conveying a dark and elegant gothic mood with images of vampires, gargoyles, ghosts and angels. Each card features an original illustration by acclaimed gothic fantasy artist Joseph Vargo, depicting gothic interpretations of the traditional Tarot method of divination. The enclosed booklet provides detailed definitions and offers an easy-to-use pictorial guide of Tarot spreads with instructions for readings.

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Check Out Some of These Halloween Card Ideas 

Vintage Dennison's Halloween Place Cards by riptheskull

Vintage Dennison's Halloween Place Cards by riptheskull

Happy Halloween! by Aine D

Happy Halloween! by Aine D

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Halloween Post Card by riptheskull

Vintage Raven Postcard , Artist Bernhardt Wall by riptheskull

Vintage Raven Postcard , Artist Bernhardt Wall by riptheskull

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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.

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