Free Scrapbooking Supplies
Now that so many good scrapbook paper and embellishment designers are Web savvy, there’s an abundance of free vintage scrapbook papers. That means all you need to know is how to do an Internet search and download files and you can find all the images you need to create delightful scrapbooks. That caused popular artist Mary Englebreit to remark recently that the Internet is so overflowing with terrific free digital scrapbook graphics, it can provide virtually any type of images you might need. And she’s an authority on quality images; products carrying her designs on them fly off the shelves as soon as they’re released!
Here are some of the types of free scrapbook graphics that are available:
Babies and Kids
As is the case with wedding ceremonies, the birth and growth years of a baby often generate a lot of pictures. And, of course, scrapbookers love to use those photos to create family keepsakes. Fortunately, this can be done for next to nothing using just scrapbook materials from the Web. If you’re not up on baby images, however, you might find the color schemes a little surprising these days. Chocolate brown, burnt orange and red are popular, as are various shades of green. Blue and pink are still popular, of course, it’s just that you can find a lot of bolder color choices too. And for older children, there is quite a lot of free clip art that reflects special interests, such as ballet images, football clip art and baseball images.
Antique
More and more people seem to be searching for vintage scrapbook materials. That could be because vintage art is so timeless and creates such classic-looking results. Greeting cards from times long gone make great vintage scrapbooking embellishments, as does antique clip art. And if you’re fortunate enough to find vintage designs on digital scrapbooking papers, you’ll experience digital meeting traditional in a beautiful and useful way. Vintage designs also cover a wide variety of subjects, including images as diverse as vintage flowers, magician posters, Victorian fashion illustrations, vintage cat art and free vintage posters. So whatever the topic of your scrapbook, there’s probably vintage art to match.
Holiday
The holidays are great subjects for scrapbooking, since those are the times we gather with friends and family to create special memories. And Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Valentine’s Day aren’t the only holidays that make people want to create scrapbooks; many people are interested in the minor holidays too. You can find lots of patriotic scrapbooking papers and embellishments online for holidays such as Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Flag Day. There are also images suitable for Earth Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and just about any other holiday you can think of; even the off-beat and downright bizarre ones.
Floral and Butterfly
Scrapbookers seem to love flowers of all kinds, and who can blame them? They work for nearly any occasion. Butterflies attract a large audience too, because they represent summertime, freedom, happiness and other cheerful things. Flowers and butterflies are also diverse, because you can find them in both illustration and photographic form, and in modern and vintage forms. You can even find butterfly scrapbooking papers that span both vintage and modern in the same collections.
Wedding Images
Scrapbooks and weddings are a natural combination, because wedding photo albums have always been traditional anyway. But a wedding scrapbook can offer an even more creative way to preserve your precious memories. There are many good free wedding scrapbook images on the Web that will allow you to create one of these very special mementos with no or little cost. And if you can’t find any specifically for weddings, flower scrapbook images will often do just as well.
So the next time you go looking for scrapbook images, check out what’s available on the Internet. You might find some amazing free things.