Free Clip Art Sourcebook
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. I assumed other people had the same problem.
But now I’ve developed a new problem: I have a lot of free contemporary and vintage clip art. My solution was to compile it into the Free Clip Art Sourcebook, which links to free clip art 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; 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.
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November 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Great source! Thanks so much for sharing.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Thanks, Anika. I hope you find it useful.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Free Clip Art Sourcebook | Vintage Holiday Crafts and Clip Art…
This clip art source has links to many free vintage and contemporary clip art sources. It’s free to download and requires no registration….
December 29th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
This is awesome - it has really fancied up my wedding invitations. Thanks for a great site.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Hi, Christy. Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad you were able to find some useful images.
I wish you the best on your wedding day!
January 12th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Thank you!
January 12th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Thanks so much for making these images available. They will be very useful for china painting designs and ideas
January 14th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
These are fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing them. I now have new ideas and inspiration for my cardmaking.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:29 am
What a great idea a free Clipart Bible.Yipee! Designers like yourself make it possible to create craft projects without it costing a small fortune. Thanks
January 27th, 2009 at 8:38 am
You’re welcome, pixabella! I’m so glad you like the idea of the Sourcebook.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
I’m so glad to have this! I love your pictures and want to thank you for all your hard work! I’m going to use your pictures for my scrap and craft projects.
Thanks so much from me to you!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 am
You’re welcome, Annemiek. I hope you create lots of beautiful things with the artwork.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I’ve linked your wonderful site to my blog.
Thanks for sharing these beautiful cards !!
They are delightful !
I printed some of the vintage childrens Valentines for my 4 grandchildren: ages 5 months to 10 years, and the loved them !
Thank you for preserving these wonderful treasures.
February 13th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Thanks so much for your kind words, Kathy. Your blog is lovely and I’m honored that you linked to us.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
March 24th, 2009 at 3:05 am
This site is remarkable…thank you so much! Just can’t believe how wonderful it is…just hope it never goes away…
I loved this art as a child…too bad we do not have the likes of it now…but you have gone to a lot of trouble, so that people like me, who found this accidentely, can enjoy it.
THANK YOU…THANK YOU…THANK YOU!
March 24th, 2009 at 7:09 am
You’re welcome, Anne. I’m so glad you enjoy the art. And don’t worry, we’re going to be around for a long while.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Thank you for the beautiful vintage art. I used an Easter card on my church’s newsletter. I just love your site!
Thank you!
March 27th, 2009 at 7:37 am
You’re welcome, Eva. I’m so glad you’re finding the art useful.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:33 am
This is the most beautiful website on the entire internet!!!
May 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Thank you, Marcia! That’s so kind of you to say.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Wow, you’re amazing!! Thank you so much!
May 24th, 2009 at 9:48 am
You’re welcome, Charmaine. Thanks for your kind words.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Hello! I jut wanted to add my Thanks to all these others for your awesome site and generousity. I am most definitely going to be coming back reularly for I hope many years to come! What a nice thing you are doing here by giving all of us vintage art fanatics such valuable resource…and for free is almost unheard of these days. So Thanks!
I will be posting a link from my site. (whenever I eventualy get it done(!) I will email to let you know.many Thanks and well wishes.
~Danae
June 12th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Thanks, Danae. I appreciate the kind words and the link!
June 14th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I love your images! And I totally understand how frustrating it used to be (and sometimes still is) to find quality FREE clip art online. Oh - for the days of cutting and pasting down onto a paste up board and digging through the clipart book. ::sigh:: Sometimes I would get lucky and find something, sometimes not.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:07 am
E. Sheppard @ I’m so glad you like the images. Long live good, free clip art!