The Web is Full of Free Scrapbook Supplies
Because there are so many Web-savvy scrapbooking image designers today, you can find plenty of free digital scrapbooking designs online. That means all you need to know is how to do a Web search and download files and you can have an almost endless supply of designs to create professional-looking scrapbooks. That’s why famous artist Mary Englebreit recently remarked that the Web is so overflowing with terrific free digital scrapbooking materials, it can provide almost any type of images you might need. And she should know about good images; products carrying her graphics sell like crazy!
The following are samples of some of the types of free scrapbooking graphics I’ve found on the Internet:
Vintage
There seems to be an upsurge in the number of people looking for antique scrapbooking images. Maybe that’s because antique art is so timeless and doesn’t date the final product to any particular modern era. Antique cards make wonderful vintage scrapbook embellishments, as does antique clipart. And if you’re lucky enough to find vintage designs on digital scrapbook papers, you’ll experience digital meeting traditional in a beautiful and useful way. Vintage graphics also cover a wide variety of subjects, including images as diverse as vintage airline posters, vintage flower embellishments, tall sailing ships, magician posters and Victorian fashion illustrations. So whatever subject you’re trying to cover in your scrapbook, there’s probably vintage art to match.
Holidays
Holidays are great subjects for scrapbooks, 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 Web 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 silly or off-beat ones.
Butterflies and Flowers
I’ve definitely noticed that scrapbookers love flowers, and why not? They’re appropriate for almost any occasion. Butterflies, too, have a large audience, because they bring to mind so many things we love: freedom, summertime and other happy things. Butterfly and flower images are also diverse, because an abundance of them can be found as both illustrations and photos, and in modern and vintage styles. There are even butterfly scrapbook embellishments that have coordinating modern and vintage designs available in the same collections.
Weddings
Scrapbooks and weddings are a natural combination, because wedding photo albums have always been traditional anyway. But a wedding scrapbook can preserve your memories in an even more creative way. There are many good free wedding scrapbooking 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 images would also be a great choice.
Babies
Like weddings, tiny tots invite photography. 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 scrapbooking designs for babies. If you haven’t looked at baby images for a while, though, 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 materials, check out what’s available on the Internet. You might be pleasantly surprised at the free images you’ll find.
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