List of Scrapbooking Clip Art Online

You can never have enough scrapbooking clip art can you? Here is a list of some websites where you will find graphics and clip art on a variety of themes such as travel, nature, kids, babies, holidays, food all suitable for scrapbooking.

Scrapbookscrapbook
Free downloadable graphics for your album pages. Customisable graphics for your particular layout. Themes include: nature, holidays, school, kids, babies, food.

HP Scrapbooking
Free printable layouts, artwork, and projects for scrapbooking. Travel and general use.

Cute Colors
Free scrapbooking clip art with particular emphasis on babies and kids. Cute and lovable images such as pandas and bunnies.

Free Digital Scrapbooking Kits Online

Whether you are new to digital scrapbooking or a seasoned scrapbooker you will find some great free digital scrapbooking kits online. Many designers give away digital scrapbooking kits to encourage you to buy which is good news if you want a quality kit to play around with and enjoy.

A word of warning about downloading free digital scrapbooking kits. Only download from scrapbooking websites you trust (those below are reputable). Many scrapbooking websites require that you join their mailing list or get a free gift of digital scrapbooking kits if you become a paid member. Watch out for the free offer that isn't really free at all.

Here is a list of websites to go to online to find free digital scrapbooking kits. There is no catch with these free digital scrapbooking kits. These digital kits are absolutely FREE.

Shabby Princess
Offers free "shabby chic" scrapbooking digital kits to download and enjoy. Please note file sizes are quite large and can take a while to download.

Two Peas in a Bucket
More than 70 free sample digital scrapbooking kits to download

Free Digital Scrapbooking
Lots of free mini digital scrapbooking kits to download

Scrapbookers List of Fonts Online

There are literally thousands of true type fonts available to spice up your scrapbooking pages. Whether you are scrapbooking digitally or using traditional methods you will surely find the exact font that will do justice to your pages.

I find it useful to download fonts to my computer so I always have some basic choice of fonts on hand if I need them.

Here is a handy list for scrapbookers of good places to find collections of fonts for scrapbooking online.


dafont.com
A huge collection of fonts for general personal use. Searchable database.

1001 Free Fonts
An assortment of fonts downloadable for personal use.

Simply The Best Fonts
Browse by alphabetical font listing or by font category through a large range of fonts.

Urban Fonts
Preview and download a collection of free fonts in a range of styles

Essential Supplies for Scrapbooking Beginners

Many people think that they need a lot of equipment to scrapbook but a beginner can get by with only a few essential items. Here's a list to get you on your way at very little expense.

Essential Supplies for Beginner Scrapbooking

Scissors

Ensure that whatever scissors you buy are sharp and easy to use.  I find a small sharp pair for cutting around lettering and small shapes useful.  Also it is handy to have a larger pair for general cutting.

Not essential but kind of useful is to have some fancy scissors with unique patterns to cut out edges and make decorative frames. These can be bought in pack containing various design patterns at very low cost.

Adhesive

Choose eiither double-sided tape or photo stickers.  Photo stickers are easy use and are suitable for photographs.  They come on a runner which makes them easy to handle. Glue dots can be useful for sticking down heavy card. What ever adhesive you choose make sure it is acid free and archive safe.

Pens

Acid free permanent scrapbooking pens are readily available and relatively cheap. A fine tip and a thicker tip for journalling and decorating pages will be enough to get you started. There a range of colours available but black is probably the most useful colour.

Trimmer or Guillotine

A guillotine is useful for trimming card and cropping photographs.  You will get much straighter edges than what can be achieved with scissors.

Card and Paper

Make sure that any card you buy is acid and lignin free to prevent deterioration of your precious photographs.  If you don't you will find your photographs turning yellow and fading as the chemicals in the card and paper eat away at them.

Albums

Albums are available in different sizes.  For a beginner the standard 12x12 album size is a good choice. Scrapbooking albums are acid free, photo-safe and are usually marked archival quality. They are a bit more expensive than other kinds of photo albums but it is worth paying a little more to get an album which will protect your photographs from premature aging. Don't try to economise on this.  It really is not worth it.

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