Elvery joined Sarah Purser's stained glass studio An Túr Gloine as a designer in 1903, and continued to paint and illustrate books, including K. F. Purdon's Candle and Crib (1914), Violet Russell's Heroes of the Dawn (1914) and Patrick Pearse's Íosagán (1907). She died in Sandycove, Dublin, in 1970.