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Free Clip Art Sourcebook

Holiday Crafts — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:50:52 +0000

Announcing the Free Clip Art Sourcebook: links to thousands of categorized free images, all in one place!

When I was a magazine art director about 100 years ago, we didn’t have electronic free clip art. That might seem incomprehensible to younger people, but we had to jump through all kinds of hoops just to get images onto the pages of a magazine. It involved X-Acto knives and sticky wax, which always seemed to be stuck to parts of me, instead of just to the back of the clip art.

I used to design a lot of small ads every month, many of which required some kind of artwork to make them stand out. That was when my love affair with clip art began. Many years later I created Vintage Holiday Crafts and started designing my own clip art because I couldn’t find the quality and type of clip art I wanted unless I paid for it. The same was true for scrapbook papers, which can cost a bundle if you buy them by the sheet at the craft store. I assumed other people had the same issues.

But now I’ve developed a new problem: I have a lot of free contemporary and vintage clip art and scrapbook images. My solution was to compile it into the Free Clip Art Sourcebook, which links to free clip art and scrapbooking image resources squirreled away all over my little online world. The images are categorized alphabetically by subject and located in one document, so everything is easy to find.

The Free Clip Art Sourcebook doesn’t just link to free clip art and scrapbook images; it’s free to download too. So help yourself and have fun! Just click the blue button above.

You need the free Adobe Reader to view the Free Clip Art Sourcebook. You probably already have this software on your computer but if you need to download it, click here.

Please note that the images are subject to the Vintage Holiday Crafts terms of use.Â Some vary in their restrictions, so please honor the terms on the page where you find art you want to use.

Free Christmas Coloring Pages and Greeting Cards

Holiday Crafts — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:16:01 +0000

Here’s a little something to keep the kids out from underfoot while you prepare for the holidays. These full-page coloring pages have Christmas themes and will keep the little ones busy for hours.

Each coloring page has a holiday message on it, so your children can give them as greeting cards to friends and relatives. Glitter glue can be used on top of crayons, markers or paint to make the pages sparkle, but keep in mind that the results will be better if the pages are printed on card stock instead of paper.

Click each free Christmas coloring page to see a larger version you can download.

These coloring pages were created in Picnik, the free online graphics application. To learn how to make your own free coloring pages or clip art, read my Picnik tutorial.

Christmas pages:

Free 4th of July Coloring Pages

Holiday Crafts — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:55:43 +0000

Like our horse coloring pages, these 4th of July coloring pages are unusual. They were originally color vintage July fourth images that I transformed in Picnik. As a result, they don’t have the usual thick lines and white backgrounds of traditional coloring pages. But they do have something ordinary patriotic coloring pages don’t: a genuine sense of history. This would make them lovely to use for crafts, too, such as decoupage, card-making or scrapbooking. If these aren’t your cup of tea, though, see the more traditional patriotic coloring books available from Amazon at the bottom of this page.

Read our terms of use, then click one of the vintage July 4th coloring pages below to see the larger version (enlarged sizes vary).

Other patriotic images you might enjoy:

NOTE: Please follow our terms of use when posting these images to any blog, Web site or forum, either commercial or non-commercial.

Free Vintage Horse Coloring Pages

Holiday Crafts — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:42:57 +0000

Admittedly, like our 4th of July coloring sheets, these are not your usual horse coloring pages. But I thought I’d try something new by taking vintage horse images and altering them in Picnik. The result is the pages you see below. They vary in size, because the original vintage horse images varied. But they should be fun to color anyway. They might also make nice clip art for layering and decoupage when you want to feature vintage-looking horses. If these aren’t your cup of tea, though, you might be interested in the animal coloring books from Amazon featured at the bottom of the page.

Click one of the vintage horse coloring pages below to see the larger version (enlarged sizes vary).

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