Two ornate holiday cards with Victorian-style illustrations of a family around a Christmas tree. One card features a monochromatic design, and the other a gold design on a transparent overlay. Both cards are topped with a red ribbon reading "THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRANSPARENT OVERLAY.
Black and white vintage Christmas illustration with three people around a decorated tree, framed by festive and elaborate holly and wreath designs. Text at the bottom reads "THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRANSPARENT OVERLAY" on a red ribbon adorned with a bow.
A vintage-style Christmas card featuring an ornate illustration of people decorating a Christmas tree, a historical newspaper clipping about a Christmas tree at Windsor Castle, and a decorative red ribbon at the bottom with the text "THE CHRISTMAS TREE TRANSPARENT OVERLAY.
Christmas Scenes,  Victorian

The Christmas Tree Digital Stamp

The London Illustrated News created quite a stir in the run up to Christmas 1848 when it published an engraving drawn by J.L Williams of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their children gathered around their spectacular Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. Being quite the ‘influencer’ of her time Victoria is credited with sparking the trend of having a decorated Christmas inside the home as we know it today (although technically it was the Prince who was largely responsible for the tree tradition as the Germanic people had been doing it for centuries!)

I fell in love with this image the moment I saw it and knew I wanted to do something with it……the essence of a Victorian Christmas! Getting a copy of the newspaper to make a decent scan to work with is tricky these days so I have composited the best parts out of a few I had available to ensure the image appears in it’s entirety. I have created a transparent PNG file which can be used as a digital stamp for colouring, or as a transfer overlay for laying on top of another image. I have also included a few different flattened JPG versions of the image. I’ve thrown in the original article from the newspaper -it’s an interesting read and would make a great addition to a Christmas junk journal!

The Christmas Tree Engraved Illustration digital stamp/transfer transparent PNG overlay.

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