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Because there are so many Web-savvy scrapbook paper and embellishment designers today, the Web is full of free digital scrapbooking supplies. That means all you need to know is how to do an Internet search and download files and you can find all the designs you need to create professional-looking scrapbooks. That caused famous artist Mary Englebreit to remark recently that the Web is so overflowing with terrific free scrapbook supplies, it can provide virtually any type of images you might need. And she’s an authority on good images; products with her graphics on them fly off the shelves as soon as they’re released!

Here are some of the types of free scrapbook materials available:

Vintage
More and more people seem to be searching for vintage scrapbook images. Maybe that’s because antique art is so timeless and doesn’t date the final product to any particular modern era. Greeting cards from times long gone make wonderful vintage scrapbook embellishments, as do clipart images from years gone by. And if you’re fortunate enough to find vintage designs on digital scrapbook papers, you’ll have the best of both worlds. Antique graphics also cover a wide variety of subjects, which means you can find images as diverse as Victorian fashion illustrations, magic show posters, vintage flowers, vintage cats and vintage advertising posters. So whatever subject you’re trying to cover in your scrapbook, you can probably find antique art to match.

Holiday
The holidays just naturally invite scrapbooking, since those are the occasions when many of us create some of our most lasting memories. And it’s not just the “showier” holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day and Halloween that inspire scrapbooks; it’s the minor holidays too. There are all kinds of patriotic scrapbooking papers and embellishments on the Internet for holidays such as Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Fourth of July 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 why not? They work for nearly any occasion. Butterflies, too, have a large audience, because they represent summertime, freedom, happiness and other cheerful things. Butterfly and flower images 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 scrapbook embellishments that have coordinating modern and vintage designs available in the same collections.

Weddings
Weddings and scrapbooks were naturally made to go together, because wedding photo albums have always been traditional anyway. But if you can make it a wedding scrapbook instead, you can preserve your memories in an even more creative way. There are many good free wedding scrapbooking images online that will allow you to create one of these very special mementos with no or little cost. And if for some reason you don’t find any specifically for weddings that appeal to you, flower images can also give you a timeless look.

Baby
Like weddings, little ones invite the taking of photos. And what scrapbooker wouldn’t want to pass down a distinctive baby scrapbook to her child as he or she gets older? Fortunately, you can find a huge selection of scrapbook graphics for babies. If you’re not up on baby images, however, you might be surprised to learn that the colors are less traditional than they used to be. 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.

So the next time you go looking for scrapbooking graphics, check out what’s available on the Web. You might find some amazing free things.