Free printable vintage birthday postcards are perfect for creating handmade DIY birthday cards, gift tags, and other customized birthday greetings for family and friends.
In truly cliched fashion, I’m bringing you a birthday-themed post on my birthday for the second year in a row. Last year I posted 10 simple DIY birthday cards. This year I’m bringing you a collection of 14 free printable vintage birthday postcards.
Vintage postcards have a unique aesthetic unlike anything you find today. It’s no secret that I love this look. I’ve already shared collections of vintage postcards for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. Vintage birthday postcards are ideal for handmade greeting cards and other personalized birthday messages. In addition to greeting cards, the postcard images are great for gift tags, magnets, scrapbook pages, framed pieces, and more.
Printable vintage birthday postcard sizes
I’ve made the printable postcards available in the following sizes.
- Original size. Downloading the postcards in their original size gives you maximum creative control to crop and format them as you like for birthday cards, gift tags, and other DIY birthday greetings.
- 4×6. I’ve formatted all of the postcards in original size with white borders, enabling easy printing in 4×6 format. Through personal experience, I’ve found that this is the simplest way to have them printed in original size via print services (as opposed to at home). You can trim the borders to retain the original size or leave the borders for simple 4×6 framing.
- 8×10. I’ve also formatted all of the postcards to 8×10 format. If you’re interested in framing the postcards and don’t want 4×6 format, most likely you want 8×10 format. Again, the 8×10 formats have white borders. Adding white borders is the simplest way to keep the original ratio of the postcards and find frames with or without mattes that work well.
Following the individual postcard downloads, I also have the following downloads available.
- A set of 8.5″ x 11″ pages with multiple original-size postcards per page. For your convenience for greeting cards and other DIY projects, I’ve made a set of seven 8.5″ x 11″ pages with two postcards per page. These pages make it straightforward to print your postcards at home or via your favorite printing service without printing every postcard individually.
- A set of ATC-size digital collage sheets. ATC-sized crops (2.5″ x 3.5″) are ideal for artist trading cards as well as endless other craft projects where you’d like more detailed smaller images, as opposed to full postcards, such as gift tags and magnets.
The 8.5″ x 11″ pages and the ATC-size digital collage sheets are 300 dpi to ensure the highest print quality possible.
Are you in need of other formats or digital collage sheets? Please don’t hesitate to contact me! I’m happy to make more resources tailored to your specific DIY birthday projects.
About the free printable vintage birthday postcards
You may download and print the vintage postcards and digital collage sheets as many times as you like for personal use, including classroom use. You may use both the postcards and collage sheets for limited runs (5,000 items or less) of physical commercial items (aka NOT made to order sites, such as Society6 and Zazzle). The sale of the download files themselves, as well as digital items using these images, is not allowed.
Additionally, please don’t send the download files directly. If family, friends, or co-workers are interested in their own postcards or collage sheets, please provide a link to this post, so they can download their own files. Thank you!
Please note: The low-resolution previews in the post are purely for preview purposes. They aren’t suitable for printing. They also may not be the size you need. Click on the links to download the high-resolution versions of the postcards and collage sheets.
Free printable vintage birthday postcards
#1
The postcard features a house scene with pansies on either side. It reads “greetings on your birthday” in the lower lefthand corner and “All choicest birthday blessings be your lot, prays one whose constant heart forgets you not.” in the lower righthand corner.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#2
The postcard features a bouquet of pink and orange flowers in a green vase with the following “for your birthday” message: “I’d like to send a birthday gift to show you my regard. But it could bring no greater love than this small postal card.”
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#3
The postcard features three women in long dresses and bonnets in a canoe. The woman facing backward in the front of the canoe is rowing. There is a barn and cows grazing in the background. The image has a blue and gold border. The postcard is red with a gold border and the message “birthday greetings” in gold letters along the bottom.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#4
The postcard features the following happy birthday message: “Because you have the happy knack of making others glad. I hope your birthday makes this day the best you ever had.” There is a girl with short blonde hair and a hair bow holding a bouquet to the right of the poem and birds in flight directly over the poem.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#5
The postcard features an open book with the following Shakespeare quote: “I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” There are pink daisies above the book with “a birthday wish” message in the upper lefthand corner. The postcard has a gold border.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#6
The postcard features pink roses in the upper lefthand corner and a snowy house scene in the bottom righthand corner. It has the message “birthday greetings” in blue letters in the bottom lefthand corner.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#7
The postcard features a large painting palette with a scene of a mother and daughter at the water’s edge. The palette has paintbrushes sticking out of the hole in the upper righthand corner. It has the message “birthday wishes” in the upper lefthand corner and then along the bottom: “My love attend you dear where e’er you roam / And bring you back to home sweet home.” The postcard has a green border with white floral detail.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#8
The postcard features a large gold and white bell decorated with pink roses and topped with a mint green and gold bow. It has the message “birthday greeting” in small gold letters in the bottom righthand corner.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#9
The postcard features two large dark pink-orange roses and smaller pink flowers with the message “best wishes for a happy birthday.”
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#10
The postcard features large roses in red, pink, and orange and a simple “birthday greetings” message. The postcard has a brown background and a pink border.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#11
The postcard features brightly colored pansies in red, yellow, and purple spilling out of a wicker basket. It has the message “A birthday prayer for you” in larger letters and then in smaller letters underneath: “This birthday greeting brings you / A warm and friendly thought / With a prayer for all the blessings / A birthday ever brought.” Then in tiny letters underneath, it has the passage “Grace be with you…and peace, from God the Father.” -11 John 3.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#12
The postcard features the message “My best wishes to you on your birthday” in large letters and then in smaller letters underneath: “Life is onward; prize it, in sunshine and in storm. / Oh! do not despite it in its humblest form.” Above the message is a small house scene with a gold border and purple flowers and green leaves in the upper righthand corner.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#13
The postcard features the following message: “May all good things that life can know / Around your birthday center / May heaven all gracious gifts bestow / Upon the year you enter.” The message is surrounded by pink flowers with green leaves.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
#14
The postcard features three sparrows and a wreath of shamrocks with buildings in the distance. It has a “birthday congratulations” message.
Original size | 4×6 | 8×10
8.5″ x 11″ pages
Download the complete set of original-size postcards in a ZIP file containing seven 8.5″ x 11″ pages with two postcards per page.
[Birthday Vintage Postcards – 8.5″ x 11″ Pages]
ATC-Size Digital Collage Sheets
Download four 8.5″ x 11″ pages containing ATC-size images from the vintage birthday postcards collection. Great for artist trading cards and DIY projects!
[Birthday Vintage Postcards – ATC Digital Collage Sheets]
I explain how to extract and download the ZIP folders in my vintage dictionary pages post. This link takes you right to the directions you need.
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