Because there are so many Web-savvy scrapbooking paper and embellishment designers today, there’s an abundance of free digital scrapbook supplies. That means all you need to know is how to do a Web search and download files and you can find all the designs you need to create beautiful scrapbooks. That caused famous artist Mary Englebreit to remark recently that the Web is so overflowing with terrific free scrapbook graphics, it can provide virtually any type of images you might need. And she should know about quality images; products carrying her designs sell like mad!

Here are some of the types of free scrapbooking supplies available:

Babies and Kids

Like weddings, the birth and growth years of a little one often generate a lot of pictures. And, of course, scrapbookers love to use those photos to create family heirlooms. Fortunately, this can be done for next to nothing using just scrapbooking designs from the Internet. If you haven’t looked at baby images for a while, though, you might find the color schemes a little surprising these days. Chocolate brown, burnt orange and red are popular, as are various shades of green. Of course, you can still find lots of blue and pink, it’s just that you can find a lot of bolder color choices too. And for older kids, there is quite a lot of free clip art that reflects special interests, like ballet images, football clip art and baseball images.

Antique

More and more people seem to be searching for vintage scrapbook images. That could be because antique art is so timeless and creates such beautiful results. Greeting cards from times long gone make wonderful vintage scrapbooking embellishments, as do clipart images from years gone by. And if you’re lucky enough to find vintage designs on digital scrapbooking papers, you’ll have the best of both worlds. Antique art also covers a range of subjects, which means you can find images as diverse as vintage flowers, magician posters, Victorian fashion illustrations, nautical images and vintage travel posters. So whatever the topic of your scrapbook, you can probably find vintage art to match.

Holiday

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. You can find lots of patriotic scrapbooking papers and embellishments on the Internet for holidays such as Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Flag Day. There are also many images out there for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Earth Day and any other holiday you can think of; even the off-beat and downright bizarre ones.

Floral and Butterfly

People who scrapbook seem to love flowers of all kinds, and who can blame them? They’re appropriate for almost any occasion. Butterflies attract a large audience too, because they bring to mind so many things we love: freedom, summertime and other happy things. Flowers and butterflies are also diverse, because you can find them in both illustration and photographic form, and in modern and vintage forms. You can even find butterfly scrapbook embellishments 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 if you can make it a wedding scrapbook instead, you can preserve your memories in an even more creative way. There are many good free wedding scrapbooking images online that will allow you to create one of these very special mementos with no or little cost. And if for some reason you don’t find any specifically for weddings that appeal to you, flower images can also give you a gorgeous look.

So the next time you go looking for scrapbook graphics, check out what’s available on the Web. You might be pleasantly surprised at the free images you’ll find.