Free Victorian Flowers and Vintage Fruit Clip Art and Borders

I find vintage art irresistible in general, but I particularly like Victorian flowers and fruit. I love how colorful and romantic they look -- even the fruit! Perhaps it's the bold colors or the extensive details. Or maybe I was just born in the wrong century and therefore have a great appreciation for everything vintage. At any rate, I truly love these Victorian flower and fruit images.

Some of the clip art and border images below feature both fruit and flowers. I can think of a thousand uses for this vintage clip art. It would be perfect for vintage-themed weddings, birthday cards, blog posts, Web sites and fliers. You can also crop any of the images to create your own avatar to use for social media sites or blogs. And let's not forget all the crafting possibilities there are when you have such beautiful images to work with.

I recently made a birthday card with some Victorian flower artwork, and I must say, it came out nicely. I printed the design on photo paper (a good quality card stock would have worked just as well, if not better) and cut around the flowers with manicure scissors. I then used glitter glue to highlight some of the flowers and put Elmer's school glue gel on top of the glitter, which effectively encased the glitter in a clear, shellac-like finish. The effect was beautiful!

If you'd like to try this, I'll give you a tip: apply all the glitter glue and glue gel before you glue the final artwork to the card. If ou don't, it will be hard to keep the edges glued down because the top coat of glue has a tendency to curl a bit. Another way to avoid that is to just print the art directly onto the card, so you don't have to cut out the image. If you use this method, be sure to apply light coats of glitter glue and glue gel. If the coats are too heavy, your card could warp.

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Instructions for Downloading the Victorian Flowers and Vintage FruitClip Art and Borders

Choose a small version of any of the Victorian flower and fruit clip art and border images in the right column. When you click on one of the images, it will appear larger.

IMPORTANT: Once you've chosen an image and see it larger, double-click on the larger image, which will make the best version of the art appear. Sorry for the extra step, but this will give you the highest quality art.

If you have a PC, once you've done the steps above, just right-click and save the final version of the artwork to your hard drive. If you have a Mac, you should control-click the image until you get a pop-up menu that will give you an option to save the file.

If you like the Victorian flowers and fruit images on this page, you'll probably appreciate these vintage butterfly pictures. The page also includes some fascinating information about butterflies that you probably never knew!