Get Organized in Vintage Style!

Elevate your 2025 note-taking game with our stunning vintage notebooks and notepads!

Whether you're drawn to floral motifs, psychedelic posters, Art Deco designs, mischievous cats, or pocket-sized options for jotting on the go, we have a nostalgic notebook design to delight every note-taker!

The Art of Letter Writing is Here to Stay!

Writing a message on our New Stationery from Laughing Elephant will add a personal touch and a bit of visual beauty to your words.

We offer 12 letter sheets, with six matching envelopes.

Adorn Your Life with Butterfly Stickers

Twenty-eight beautiful butterflies wait for your use in our Butterfly Box! We selected this offering of die-cut butterfly stickers from our treasured collection of Victorian scraps.

come out of hibernation

Card of the Week!

This bear is quite the enthusiastic celebrator! This amusing image captures the bear's festive spirit, created by Franz Laskoff in 1922 for a Campari Cordial advertisement. Interestingly, polar bears were prominently featured in advertising during this era due to their popularity in circuses. Trained polar bears in Wilhelm Hagenbeck's troupe, were especially famous for their antics, including drinking from bottles. It's possible that Laskoff drew inspiration from such performances when crafting this delightful illustration!See our entire Birthday Card Collection!

Connecting people through vintage illustration

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.