Too Early for Halloween? Never!
Many of our customers live the Halloween life all year round! For those folks, our collection of vintage Halloween illustrations offers an array of wonderfully weird art that will keep you in the spooky spirit all 12 months of the year!
Explore our postcards, greeting cards, art prints, stickers, and the ever-popular Halloween Garland...
Happy Birthday, Alexandra Day!
Join us in celebrating the birthday of our friend and founder! The creator of the beloved babysitting Rottweiler, Carl, works alongside us, curating and crafting all our modern vintage products. In honor of her upcoming birthday (September 7th), we're putting all our Alexandra Day-designed items on sale this week!
Save 25% on our entire Alexandra Day Collection with Promo Code: ADAYBDAY24
Sale ends Tuesday, September 10th, at 11:59 PM PST
Head Back to School in Vintage Style!
For those of you gearing up to start a new school year this month, we have plenty of stylish vintage notebooks, greeting cards, and art prints featuring school day scenes and the ABCs in various fun forms!
If you're not a student, our fun notepads and notebooks will add a delightful touch of nostalgic flair to your daily jottings!
Card of the Week
As the Marketing Manager at Laughing Elephant, I (Allison) have the enjoyable task of selecting products and art to feature. With my birthday approaching, it feels fitting to highlight one of my favorite birthday cards, which I believe deserves more recognition.
I would be delighted to receive this charming card, featuring a sweet birthday kiss by Frederick Sands Brunner! I adore the happiness of the birthday girl and her cute little outfit. Plus, like many of my favorite cards, it’s blank inside, making it perfect for any sweet occasion.
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If you have a September birthday, you're in fantastic company with many talented artists! These September-born creatives include the Rottweiler-loving co-founder of our business and icons of the Golden Age of Illustration.
Happy birthday to the magazine legend and one of our all-time favorite artists, Jessie Willcox Smith. Joining her is fellow Virgo Alexandra Day, aka Sandra Darling, the creator of Good Dog, Carl and our beloved colleague! And let's not forget the classic storybook imagery of Michael Hague, Arthur Rackham, Miska Petersham, and L. Leslie Brooke—among many others, including some familiar names and others we're delighted to introduce you to.
Celebrate your September birthday with these talented illustrators—click the link to discover more of our favorite authors and artists born this month who continue to inspire us!
Nice to Meet You!
We are Laughing Elephant, a greeting card and gift company founded in 1969. Our warehouse and retail store are located in Seattle, Washington, and we are the keepers of one of the largest libraries of illustrated books and ephemera in the United States. From this library, we draw inspiration and images that become the source material for all our offerings. We curate our collections with the goal of sharing beautiful images with the world.
We celebrate the golden age of design, when artists and illustrators were an integral part of advertisements and merchandising. Their beautiful, hand drawn images inspire us to make gifts and cards you will love.