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Just Dropping In Valentine Spiral Note Book by FirstNightDesign
Just dropping in to suggest a few more ideas for Valentine’s Day from FirstNightDesign, yesterdays girl, quipology, fat_fa_tin, blunt card, ellesgreetings, haveuhurd and golden_oldies.
A Night to Remember Valentine Pillow by FirstNightDesign
I can’t speak for my colleagues on Zazzle but FirstNight Designs have matching products available.
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Dame Ellen Terry by John Singer Sargent Greeting Card by FirstNightVintage
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Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson Greeting Card by FirstNightVintage
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For You A Rose Greeting Card by FirstNightVintage
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Flowers and Bird by Hsiao Yung Postcard by FirstNightVintage
Make your own postcards custom at Zazzle
Le Déjeuner dans l’atelier by Edouard Manet Posters by FirstNightVintage
Find more Luncheon Posters at Zazzle
Dr Paul Gachet (2nd version) by Vincent van Gogh Cards by FirstNightVintage
Design your own card at Zazzle
Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of her sisters Greeting Card by FirstNightVintage
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Portrait of a Woman in Black by Sir John Lavery Cards by FirstNightVintage
Create personalized cards online at Zazzle.
American Gothic by Grant Wood Print by FirstNightVintage
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Woman Combing her Hair by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Posters by FirstNightVintage
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Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by August Macke Card by FirstNightVintage
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Sleeping Beauty Gift Wrapping Paper
Having just sold some of my Sleeping Beauty wrapping paper, I decided Princess Aurora, as she has been known since the animated Disney film in 1959, deserved a post of her own.
The original story, The Beauty sleeping in the wood, or La Belle au bois dormant, was published by Charles Perrault in 1697 as part of his Histoires ou contes du temps passé, before being taken up by the Brothers Grimm.
According to ListVerse, the original story has unpleasant overtones in that ‘the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And […] the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids’. Macabre, mais oui!
Sleeping Beauty Spiral Note Books
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And here’s the second in the series using black & white clip art from The Graphics Fairy. In fact, Karen only added this fashion plate lady to her blog today!
Linking to Brag Monday.
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- The Walking Bicycle or The Dandy Horse (firstnightdesign.wordpress.com)
I’ll admit it: I’m very taken with this latest piece of mine and you might see a whole series in the next week or so. The background is that of a vintage postcard from my collection, while the man and his walking bicycle from the 1850s is courtesy of the ever-bountiful Karen Watson of The Graphics Fairy.
The reason I have called this post The Walking Bicycle or The Dandy Horse is because the original clip art is captioned ‘The Dandy Horse’. You can now tell your friends that you know all about dandy horses. It’s not a mode of transport, I suspect, that ever went into production. If you can prove me wrong, let me know at once! It might be a greeting card your father or grandfather would enjoy receiving on Father’s Day but don’t suggest he might remember such a contraption.
One of the reasons I like the design so much is that it’s in black & white. Sometimes you hanker for a break from colour and need the deep, deep peace of monochrome. So there you have it.
You will not be surprised to learn that I have a tab open on my browser with a search for all Karen’s black & white clip art.
STOP PRESS: I’m completely wrong! Click here. Karen and I may be completely out with the date of the 1850s for Wikipedia mentions the ‘dandy horse being particularly popular in the summer of 1819. Yer learn summat everyday.
Linking to Brag Monday.
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This new design is dedicated to you, yes, you!
A day I was looking forward to and rather dreading has arrived and that’s because you have followed and liked First Night Design on this blog, on Facebook and on Twitter to the extent that I can’t keep up. I’m delighted, of course, but….
It galls me that I don’t have the time or the stamina to thank you all individually and explore your blogs and Facebook pages and websites. Forgive me.
Saying or writing ‘thank you’ was a big thing in my family. Even now it seems wrong to say ‘thank you’ by email so even if no one else does, I shall be buying not a few of the above greeting cards!
Bless you all for your support and encouragement and comments.
Oh, by the way, the woman in the photograph is the Hollywood actress Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) and is from The Library of Congress.
Director Clarence Brown once called her “the greatest pantomimist that ever drew breath. She was a natural-born comic; you could turn on a scene with her and she’d go on for five minutes without stopping or repeating herself”.*
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I was so charmed by this vintage silhouette from The Graphics Fairy that I had no desire to tinker and we all know how I like a bit of tinkering!
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New greeting card for Easter created with a vintage Easter card from The Graphics Fairy and myriad textures added to create the look of a Victorian oil painting that needs a little cleaning!
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The Lion and the Unicorn Cards by FirstNightDesign
This beautiful illustration of the lion and the unicorn as in Lewis Carroll‘s Alice Through the Looking Glass is not, I have to confess, my work. I have to thank Mr FND for the use thereof! It is now available on my Zazzle store as a greeting card (above) and a postcard (below), with more products to come. Coming soon will be t-shirts featuring the illustration—perfect Christmas and other holiday presents for your kids.
Each includes one verse from Carroll’s ditty of The Lion and the Unicorn:
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town.
Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown:
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.
The Lion and the Unicorn by FirstNightDesign
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Sugar-Dusted Christmas Fruit Cards by FirstNightDesign
Time to buy your Thanksgiving and Christmas cards, methinks or, perhaps, next year’s Halloween invitations!
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There Must Be A Way To Love You from First Night Vintage
This cover girl image is one that I find very endearing and I love the colour palette. Does it appeal to you? It’s the latest image uploaded to First Night Vintage
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This is from my new gallery at Zazzle, First Night Vintage, which focuses on every kind of vintage image from theatre to the Masters and much else in between. This particular image is an archive sheet music cover from the 1920s and is actually one of my favourites. The colours, the tone and the typeface enthrall me!
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![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/photorehabcovermakeoveraugust.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "#photorehabcovermakeoverAugust")
![Artful Pumpkins © Sarah Vernon [Redbubble]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/hl008blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Artful Pumpkins © Sarah Vernon [Redbubble]")
![Photo Unsplash Texture - 2LO Haunting 14 & 2LO Haunting 23 - “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/e285blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Night Landings © Sarah Vernon")
![Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea: “Biodiversity Library”:http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45490916 Texture: “Kerstin Frank”:https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/9181048645/in/photostream/ Flowers: “Rijksmuseum”:https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/150967--sarah-vernon/mijn-eerste-verzameling/objecten#/SK-A-3899,0 Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/e309blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "‘Happiness is a Butterfly’")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Green-painted fence https://unsplash.com/photos/FxeeNx_yMpw Lake Annecy by Mindy Sommers Celestial Eruption by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/NvesrDbsrL4](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/v057fb.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Valentine Blush")
![Gabrielle d'Estrees and one of her sisters [unknown]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ma015frame.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "ma015frame")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/e221blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Bring up the Curtain")
![Yacht: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zakhark/572331622/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Texture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/19581317079/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/e303blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Sailing to the Moon")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Advert from The Graphics Fairy](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/e286blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Vintage Pettit’s Eye Salve")
![Butterfly Cascade © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/e250blog1.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Butterfly Cascade © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ma077blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (")
![The Boat House Tote Bag © Sarah Vernon [Fine Art England]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/totebagfae.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "totebagfae")
![Photograph from the ex-Mrs FND Photograph from Unsplash Texture 2LO Ancient times 2 Clock created for Behind Time Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/e353blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Beating the Blues")
![Bird on the Beam © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/e254blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Bird on the Beam © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Photograph by “Nicolai Bernsten”:DJ;KGH; at “Unsplash”:http://unsplash.com Textures “2LO Confetti 17 and 2LO Distressed 12 from”:http://2lilowls.com](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/e289blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "The Boat House")
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Vintage Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing from The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514042/ The background is a blend of the interior of The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851 from an old encyclopaedia — the venue was originally built in Hyde Park and the exhibition was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole — and textures from “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/great-exhibition/](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/e284blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Beatrice and Benedick")
![Romance in Stone [framed] © Sarah Vernon](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/romanceinstoneframed.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "romanceinstoneframed")
![Venetian Rose Water © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/e257blog1.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Venetian Rose Water © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
