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I wish I had saved the Christmas cards my family received when I was a child. At that time they were brand new, naturally. But if I
had them today they would come under the free vintage Christmas images category and would probably be
worth quite a bit in aggregate. People sell online digital collections of Christmas cards
like that today for big bucks. Not so in the old days though. They were quite cheap at the time.
People use these Christmas images for so many reasons now. Itâ??s fun to see
all the different ways that crafters use them to express themselves.
Although some use the images offline to create scrapbooks, you can
also find vintage Christmas card images as part of “blog wear,” and blog post and Web site
designs. Itâ??s totally ironic that modern graphics programs are used to
resurrect these antique images, some of which hail from the 1800s or even earlier.