Go on the Internet When You Want No Cost Scrapbooking Supplies
Because there are so many Web-savvy scrapbook image designers today, the Web is full of free digital scrapbooking designs that can be downloaded free. That means all you need to know is how to do an online search and download files and you can have an almost endless supply of graphics to create professional-looking scrapbooks. That’s why popular artist Mary Englebreit recently remarked that the Internet is a great source of scrapbooking designs that will yield nearly anything you might need. And she should know about good images; products carrying her graphics sell like mad!
The following are samples of some of the types of free scrapbook images I’ve found on the Internet:
Vintage
More and more people seem to be searching for antique scrapbook materials. Maybe that’s because vintage 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 clip art. And when you can find digital scrapbooking papers made from compilations of vintage images, you’ll experience digital meeting traditional in a beautiful and useful way. Antique art also covers a range of subjects, which means you can find images as diverse as vintage airline posters, vintage flower scrapbook embellishments, tall sailing ships, magician posters and Victorian fashion illustrations. So whatever subject you’re trying to cover in your scrapbook, you can probably find antique art to match.
Holidays
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 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.
Flowers and Butterflies
I’ve definitely noticed that people who scrapbook love flowers, and who can blame them? 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 an abundance of them can be found as both illustrations and photos, and in modern and vintage styles. You can even find butterfly scrapbook papers that have coordinating modern and vintage designs available in the same collections.
Weddings
Scrapbooks and weddings are a natural combination, because it’s always been a tradition to have a wedding photo album. But a wedding scrapbook can offer an even more creative way to preserve your precious memories. There is a surprisingly good selection of wedding scrapbooking images on the Web that will allow you to create a lasting memento for little or no cost. And if for some reason you don’t find any specifically for weddings that appeal to you, flower scrapbook images will often do just as well.
Babies
Like weddings, the birth and growth years of a little one often generate a lot of pictures. 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 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, but these days there are many bold color choices too.
So the next time you go looking for scrapbooking designs, check out what’s available on the Internet. You might find some amazing free things.