Birthday Season = Baby Season
As September ushers in peak birthday season, chances are you have some birthdays and perhaps even new births to commemorate—we've got you fully covered on both fronts!
Explore our delightful collection of New Baby Greeting Cards, designed to be as sweet and sincere as a newborn.
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...
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
A card so chic, we can forgive the smoking! This cool Jazz Age lady originates from a unique piece of paper ephemera: a 1920s or '30s bridge tally card made by Gibson and Co. These meticulously designed cards served as both place cards for the game and scorekeepers during spirited rounds of bridge, while also doubling as charming keepsakes from the gathering!
This is just one of a handful from our Art Deco Ladies Collection that we've adapted into truly unique cards, all with blank interiors. We’ve reproduced them as they were made: die-cut and embellished with gold foil. Each comes with a dark card featuring a deco pattern, an ideal background for framing or displaying the image, along with a decorative envelope that's a delight to send and receive.
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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.
