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Berry Happy Birthday to lovely Miss. Orange Blossom. She is an October baby. I wish all the October Babies out there a Berry Happy Birthday ! This image is from the Berry Best Friends Club Poster that reveals the Birth Month of Each Character. 
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This adorable promotional poster was a Mail Away Premium Offer from the folks at DuCair Bioessence, Inc. The made some of the Strawberry Shortcake Shampoos , Bubble Bath's , and other Toiletries for her licensed products. If you responded to the offer they would send you this beautiful poster with a message thanking you. The poster reads "To My "Berry" Special Friend, with love, Strawberry Shortcake". It's a gift from Strawberry Shortcake herself ! I love that this included the original envelope and the message they sent to the consumer (original cardboard too). Such a sweet piece on Shortcake Ephemera History! this is from 1983 .       I was so happy to add this lovely card to my collection. This is a Rare Vintage Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Card. It features the Peculiar Purple Pie man From Porcupine Creek Rat-tat tat tat -tat tat- tat tat, LOL. It has the coolest picture of the Pie Man playing a game of cards at a table with Strawberry Shortcake and Huckleberry to his left and right. I honestly suspect he is cheating for 2 reasons. He has a card behind his ear, and because he is the Pie Man( and his berry birds can help him cheat). He can never stay a good guy for too long. The game in this card is called " The Strawberryland Card Game". Each individual card has a copy right on it except for the Pie Man card that ended up on the back of this card because apparently he didn't fit inside, poor dear Purpi. I know he's peeking at Hucks cards! Look at those googly eyes ,LOL. He looks like he is some sort of Elf in this image. In this game, the person left holding the Pie Man card in their had is the loser. Back when it was ok for a kid to lose a game, right! The good ole days for sure. Anyway, the cards are berry adorable. There are two of each character. Not all the kids are on the set, but we go 8 of the berry kids, 3 pets, and Lucky Bug, Plus Pie Man of course (the loser card hee hee). Each card has a strawberry on the back just like the ones on the front image of this card. So detailed!! Hope you enjoy this as much as I did. It's a whoot! From American Greetings Corp. 1983         Image from one of my favorite Vintage Strawberry Shortcake Calendars ....  This is another post card from The Netherlands. It has the same half scissor mark at the top left hand side in black. This means it was also a cut-out that was cut improperly. I am so curious about which magazine or advertising this may have come from. I can tell this are earlier post cards because the images on them are ones from the very early 80's when Plum Puddin' was still drawn as a boy. Also there are Greeting Cards that I own with these same designs from the early 1980's. I have one more to share berry soon...   I found a few more Vintage Post Cards from the Netherlands. I wasn't sure where they came from as far as how these were packages etc. I believe this new set I have gives us a bit of a clue. You can see at the top of this card that there is a drawing of some black scissors and a black dotted line where the person who cut it out did not cut it exactly tothe line leaving the guidelines on the post card. I think these may have been from a magazine or some sort of booklet that had cut out postcards. I have two others I will be sharing soon. They are berry cute !   This is one of the newest card in my collection. It is a Valentine's Day Card. It is also a board game with a metal spinner and 6 character game pieces you can punch out. This card is very, very big. It has 5 panels.The graphics on this card are so cute. There are images here you may have never seen before. It comes with the games instruction on the back. It is completely embossed. Front cover, game pieces and the board all embossed! I just love this card so much ❤           This is another Beautiful Strawberry Shortcake card from Mexico. It is Die-cut. The words are in Spanish and it translates to: Translation: FRONT: Por donde pasas Where you go, INSIDE: Siempre riegas el camino de alegria You always water the path of joy This is one of my favorite ones from my Mexican collection. I love the watering can so much too!!!    These are a wonderful set of Vintage Steno Pad style Notebooks from Italy. I have had these for quite some time. Took me so long to finally take the pictures and set it up the way I wanted them. I love how these look. This is my favorite style of Shortcake art personally. At the bottom I included a neato sketch of one of these notebooks from the original art of my friend Barbi Sargent the Original Creator of the Strawberry Shortcake Character. These are just wonderful ! art from around 1977 to 1979 . I know this because I have the sketch by Barbi Sargent from the example below from 1977 and the rest I have on some Vintage Greeting cards dated 1979. This is such a cute set!        This is a cute Valentine's Day card from 1984. The front has Strawberry Shortcake, Raspberry Tart, and Huckleberry hanging out. On the inside is a large Strawberry with a cute picture of Custard in front of it. This card is die-cut on a thin semi gloss double folded paper. It is not embossed. The colors are very vibrant and bright. Graphics are also very crisp and focused. There are other versions of this card out there. This is the first one I own. Hope to gather the est in my future hunts !    This beautiful Strawberry Shortcake Easter card is also a Spring Greeting Card. I was so delighted to trade with Amy my Berry Pal on Instagram for this greeting card. This gorgeous egg shaped card has 3 amazing panels. This is packed with Spring time fun. None of the images have a specifically Easter theme to them. I think the shape of the card is the only thing that you can really tell with the exception of course of the wording on the front of the card and the inside wording on the footer, lol. This card is very bright and colorful. This one is not embossed. The card is from 1983. I'm loving the strawberry vines going all around each frame. So awesome!! Thank you so much for the trade Amy !!!     I have admired this lovely card online for years. It is quite a Unicorn in it's rarity. I was so happy to have found this beauty last week, It is a Valentine;s Day card for a Niece who is cute as a doll.This little girl of course is holding the best doll ever, Strawberry Shortcake. I can't tell you for certain that it is from 1983 although it is marked 1983 on the back of the card two times. These markings look more modern and I was under the impression that this was an older vintage style drawing, but it just may be a newer card after all. Either way, it is super adorable and berry hard to find.    It took me a while to photograph this lovely calendar, but I finally finished last night. It is a 16 Month Calendar for 1985 to 1986. I have two other similar Calendars on our Vintage Calendar page that are 1983 and 1985. Those are both 12 Month Calendars. This specific one has 4 extra images on the it. It is so cute. Some of these images have been featured on Greeting Cards as well. Hope you like it.                  
This cute little vintage Strawberry Shortcake Card is to big to be a gift tag but a little too small to be a regular card. Its somewhere in between. I do believe it was intended to be a greeting card though I do not know how it was packaged. It may have come with several others in a pack. I love how simple it is yet still is as adorable as can me. It has the unique marking on the bottom back of Celebration Arts. This is AGC 1980    This is another post card I recently acquired from the Netherlands in a set of 6 different ones. This one says: Van Harte Beterschap Translation: Speedy Recovery Only three of the cards had a message on them. These cards are printed so beautifully and have a very shiny finish on the front. Just lovely !   |
