Clip Art Crafts Ideas and Projects

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How to Design Your Own Unique Crafts and Printables with Free Clip Art

It's easy and fun to design your own clip art crafts - you can make unique gifts, greeting cards, home decor and crafts for friends and family with graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures. The projects you design with clip art don't necessarily need to be printed paper crafts. You can use clip art images to make many types of creative arts and crafts, no just paper crafts.


cupcake clip artSometimes the biggest challenge is finding the right clip art for your craft project. This Squidoo lens will make it easier to find and use the best free clip art crafts and crafters graphics.


Clip Art Crafts is full of tips, paper craft projects and links to ready-to-craft printables and clip art (including free graphics) for your crafting fun. I designed a pin the eye patch on the pirate game sheet from free clip art - you can too!

Finding the Best Clip Art for Your Craft Projects

Clip art is everywhere - and lots of the graphics your find are free for personal use

Pastiche Family Portal offers a rich collection of free clip art for personal crafts

Click the banner graphic above to visit my family-friend,y web site and find thousands of free clip art images for personal and classroom use.

Free clip art is readily available on the Internet. If you're using it for your own clip art crafts projects - not to sell or collect and repackage - you can pick and choose from millions of delightful graphics in easy-to-view online collections.


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Some sites prohibit use of images without payment, permission or a license. Others may require registration or a link back to the site for you to use their images. Always read and be sure you understand the terms of service regarding any clip art or photos you find online.

Check out my Clip Art and Graphics Collections lens to find hundreds of free clip art web sites with high quality graphics  you can download to use for crafts, desktop publishing and web pages or blogs. You'll also find resources and suggested reading to learn more about copyright.

How to Use Your Own Clip Art in MS Word Documents

Cool Type and Picture Tricks - Tutorials

If you experiment a bit with word processing features you can learn how to use clip art creatively. For example, you can control placement of an image by putting it into a text box or table cell in MS Word.

How to Insert Graphics Into MS Word Documents
Download Video: Posted by bunchuck at TeacherTube.com.

PhotoShop Facelifts - learn to do amazing and amusing PhotoShop alterations to photos and clip art.

Word Art with Photo Fill - Fill in the outlines of any font letters with a pattern or texture of your choice. You can even use a photograph as the fill pattern.

Free Clip Art for Crafters

Blogs, Lenses and Directories with Collections of Clip Art for Crafting

Here are my favorite sites offering free clip art. Each link features excellent free clip art images for making crafts, paper crafts, scrapbooking and designing clip art crafts.
Christmas Clip Art Blog
Christmas holiday graphics and borders blog with new clip art for the holiday season added every week, year round.
Pastiche Craft Printables
Crafts blog updates weekly with seasonal clip art to download for crafts and paper craft projects to print, cut and paste.
Free Easter Clip Art
Free clip art for Easter and Spring. This blog features links to direct free clip art downloads and craft projects made with spring clip art, Easter borders and Mardi Gras graphics.
Valentine Clip Art and Romantic Graphics
Romantic clip art for clip art crafts: design your own wedding, shower and Valentine's Day crafts.
Free Easter Clip Art - Spring Graphics and Borders
Easter graphics, spring borders and spring clip art to print or download free for personal clip art craft designs.
Halloween Clip Art Blog
Blog devoted to featuring Halloween graphics, Halloween clipart, Harvest borders and mask art.
Clip Art Crafts Network
Free clip art collections, free coloring pages, free print and cut craft pages, and free scrapbook borders and frames.
Computer Art for Crafters-Crafty Tips Arts & Crafts Directory
Computer clip art, vector images, and photography made specifically for crafters.
Clip Art Of.com :: Royalty-free Animal Clipart Illustrations, Posters & Art Prints
Small samples of professional commercial clip art you can purchase in larger format or to use for ideas to design your own clip art crafts.

Vintage Crafts Clip Art Projects

Click-N-Craft Vintage Workshop-Chic Bag Boutique

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Creativity has never been so easy. Vintage artwork and project instructions. Artwork on CD-ROM from postcards, books and advertisements. Perfect for pillows, clothing, journals, scrapbooks, calendars, cards, invitations, magnets, gift and name tags, ornaments and decorative crafts.

Clip Art Crafts Project: Quick Mini Cards

Design a Set of Place Cards or Mini Gift Tags

It's easy to make your own small cards using any word processor like MS Word with free clip art. Simply create a 2-column table with row heights the size of your finished card. I usually make a table that covers most of a single page, then divide it into 2 rows. This gives me 4 place cards or mini gift cards that will fold in the middle to make a tent card or small folder.

Next, add clip art pictures to the lower half of each cell. (This is the front of the folded card.) You can create borders for each card using basic table properties, or import a pre-designed graphic frame and size it to fit inside the table cell. Be sure to leave a bit of space around the edge of each cell to cut the cards apart after printing.

If you want to add blocks of color, create those to size of just less than half the height of the cell and place them as a background to the area you want to color, then add text or graphics on top of the color block. Or, simply choose a background color for the table or cell to use. (In my sample, I used different color blocks to define the front and back of each card and two different colors for the cards on the sheet.)

You can copy the same design into all 4 cells, or design 4 different cards on a single sheet.

In the lower half section of each card, add a guest name, or leave a space blank to write the name in later by hand.

Print, cut apart and enjoy your custom table cards!

Click here to view and print a template page of mini cards featuring this cute Easter egg / jelly bean design. Use as is, or as a guide to making your own designs!

How to Insert Pictures into Microsoft Word Documents

Microsoft Word #02: Using Pictures and Clip Art
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Clip Art Crafts - Printable Projects and Paper Crafts

Clip art craft Ideas, samples and printables for you to download free

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Clip Art Crafts Patterns and Paper Craft Templates

Basic blanks to design your own clip art crafts, labels, and printables

Blank Templates - Alenka's Printables
Free printable templates for computer clip art crafting.
Free Templates Collection for Printing and Graphic Design
Free graphic design templates for greeting cards, wedding invitations, holiday cards, brochures, flyers and more.
Free Printable Calendar Templates
Download free printable calendars for the year 2004 and up. Each printable calendar is a professional-looking Microsoft Word document.
Scrapbooking Tags Templates
Scrapbooking Tags Templates, Printable Shapes for Scrapbook Page Tags
Blank Favor Bag Template - Free, Printable Crafts
Print out this free template and make your own personalized party favor bags.
Printable invitations and invitation templates
Free templates to make your own invitations for your party or event.
Gift Labels & Tags for Kitchen Gifts
Free Printable labels for gifts in a jar & Kitchen mixes
Collage Cubies: Innovative 3D Paper Art Sculpture by Chris Dunmire
Collage Cubies Project Introduction: Chris Dunmire's inspiration for innovative cubed collage art.
Photoshop Circular Frame Examples
How to design a circle-shaped frame using PhotoShop or other graphic tools

Clip Art Mega-Collections

No download required - thousands of images on CDROM

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Picture This - Free Graphics Blog

New original featured clip art every week. Free clip art graphics for crafters.
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Click n Craft Clip Art Crafts Kit

Click-N-Craft Vintage Workshop-Cute As A Button

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Clip art craft CDs with numerous projects and instructions printing project images to a variety of inkjet papers and fabrics. 40 printable images in three sizes in PDF and JPG formats at high 300dpi resolution.

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Clip Art Crafts: How to Make and Print Party Treat Bags

Print paper lunch bags with clip art and text to make goody sacks

It's easy to make your own party treat sacks using free clip art (or a favorite photograph) and inexpensive paper lunch bags. Easy how-to directions and free clip art for crafts: Easy Clip Art Craft - Party Treat Bags

Clip Art Crafts: How to Make Bookmarks with Word Processing Software

Useful as gift tags, too

It's easy to make a set of artistic bookmarks with free clip art. You can use your trusty word processor and clip art, or create a cut and paste collage of favorite clips and craft embellishments (perhaps from scrapbook leftovers) on a nice piece of card stock.

WORD PROCESSOR METHOD: Create a landscape page (wider rather than longer for the larger dimension) then create a table with 4 equally sized columns to fill up the page - each column will become one bookmark. Next, add interesting borders around the cells and any background color you wish.

Insert clip art images or pictures from your computer, digital camera or graphics collections into the columns.

Sample bookmark sheets made with MS Word

Size the graphics to fit within the table columns or use a text box or frame to crop out what you don't want to print. Alternatively, you can edit your art or photo in a graphics program to make it the exact size you need.

Using the same technique (using a frame or text box) add words that will print on top the pictures or add boxes of text with white or colored backgrounds that print on the graphics or around them. For example, make the graphic you add to each bookmark smaller, so it's a decoration at the top, middle or bottom of the bookmark, then add a bit of poetry or a special quote to the rest of the table column blank space areas.

Duplicate your design on the rest of the table cells/templates, or make 3 different designs for the rest of the page, then print and cut apart your 4 bookmarks.

COLLAGE METHOD: Use the bookmark template or measure off 4 sections on your card stock and cut apart to make blank bookmarks. Decorate each blank with clip art cutouts, magazine clips, headlines, bits of ribbon and what not, then seal the entire thing with laminating film or clear acrylic coating to preserve and protect your creation.

Punch a hole at the top and thread with yarn, ribbon or string. Attach a bead, craft button or tassel and enjoy your new art bookmarks.

Sample Bookmarks

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Clip Art Bargains at Auction Prices

If you need to buy graphics, you can find some great deals on clip art at eBay.

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Clip Art Crafts: Easy Napkin Ring Wrappers

Easy to MakeThanksgiving Napkin Bands

It's easy to make your own custom napkin bands from clip art. I made my own Thanksgiving napkin bands this year, and made matching place cards to go with them.

Here's how easy it is to design napkin ring wrappers with clip art.

Use your word processor to create a table that's about 7 inches wide and as tall as your sheet of paper. Add a border to each row to use as a guide line for cutting.

Divide the table into rows (4 to 6 depending on how tall you'd like your napkin bands to measure).

Place a clip art image in each row, centered between the top and bottom and both sides of the row. Add text or word art text to each row.

Print the page and cut out the bands along the guide lines; fasten a band around each napkin with a bit of tape.

Printable Happy Thanksgiving napkin band sheet - use this paper craft printable as a sample to go with these directions, or to print 4 napking rings for your Thanksgiving holiday table.

Microsoft Publisher Templates for Clip Art Crafts

Free Microsoft Publisher Templates for desktop publishing projects
Free Microsoft Publisher templates for desktop publishing projects. Plus free clipart, free desktop publishing software, free fonts, free web design tips, and much more
Free DTP Templates
Microsoft free desktop publishing templates

Hints and Tips - Clip Art Crafts How-to

Creating crafts from digital graphics is easy - here's how to do it

Graphic Tool Lessons - free Tutorials from Celestial Star
Linkware layouts, tutorials, brushes, avatars, textures, inspiration and a lot more to help you succeed with your website
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorials for the most basic PhotoShop tricks
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Pop-up cards - how to cut and fold your own pop-up cards. You can add clip art pictures to the design or print, cut and glue them on after you get the cut out working.
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Clip Art and Graphics Collections for Crafts, Blogs, Designers
This lens features hundreds of clip art collections free or low cost for personal use plus tips for designing your crafts for paper, fabric and other media.
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How to use the Ink Jet Transparency Method to transfer clip art images to rigid materials like mat board.
How to Print Fabric from Clip Art
Follow this easy tutorial to learn how to make your own custom fabric patches and pieces using muslin and free clip art - the trick is in learning to prepare the fabric so you can print it in your inkjet and how to set up the document.

Clip Art Craft Quotes - Words With Meaning

Unique Quotes, Titles, Phrases, Hip Sayings and Witty Headlines you can use to design clip art crafts, greeting cards, word art and bumper stickers.

The Perfect Title
Find just the right words for scrapbook pages, blog headers, cards, posters, buttons even tee shirt design. Clever words, waiting for your design touches.
The Quote Garden - Quotes, Sayings, Quotations, Verses
Large, searchable compilation of quotations arranged by topic. Inspirational, thought-provoking, humorous, literary, and special occasion quotes.

Print Your Own Craft Fabrics

Print Your Own Fabric: Create Unique Designs Using an Inkjet Printer

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Book filled with easy-to-follow instructions and technique-building tips for using clip art images to create unique fabrics. Bonus CD-ROM packed with 20 ready-to-print designs for a variety of projects including:pillows, quilts,bags,,journals and more.

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Printer Fabric Sheets

Dritz Printed Treasures 5-Pack Sew-on Ink Jet Fabric Sheets, White

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Sew-in fabric for printing your clip art, photos, patterns, images or designs of any type. Sew into quilts, pillows, scrapbooks, and clothing. Paper-like print quality on cotton fabric sheets, soft and pliable for easy sewing. Retains clarity and color after washing. -100% pima cotton -200 thread count

Clip Art Crafts - Illustrate, Decorate, Design With Clip Art

Crafts & other projects that use clipart as an element of the design

Free Clip Art is not just for paper crafts! Here are samples of crafts patterns and projects inspired by free clip art. You can illustrate your blog, lens or web page with clip art. You can make iron ons to add to fabric crafts made with clip art.

French Soap Label Heart Pillow

Tee Shirt Transfers Make tee shirts, tote bags, banners, flags or pillows

Make a Teacher Gift - Class Picture Tote Bag with Apples Decoration (apple clip art)

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Cool Tools to Make Your Own Graphics

Free and easy software and online tools that let you create your own clip art crafts!
Free Downloads, Free Fonts, Free Web Sites, Free Animation SW
Free downloads, free web site hosting, fonts, MySpace widgets, text and glitter makers, and fun graphic tools to use online or download free.
Yipes! Stripes! DIY Pattern Maker
A stripe generating program for knitters that creates a graphic you can print to use as craft paper! You choose the colors, size of the stripes, and the length of the sheet.
Free Online Digital Scrapbook Maker
Easy to Use - Make digital scrapbooks online for free! No software, no money, no scrapping tools-all scrapbook pages done with your web browser. (These will not print out 8x10 pages in good quality, but will make decent smaller prints.)
MagMyPic - Fake Magazine Covers with your Photo
Fake magazine covers with your picture. Upload any picture to create your own cover. Choose from 18 different magazines, 2 sizes. Free.
Smashing Textures for PhotoShop
A variety of interesting, exotic or creative textures from all around the globe. Wood, stone, metal, nature, ice, sand, fabric, paper, glass, fire, food and plastic textures. A large number of daily routine things observed from a completely new perspective.
Photoshop Lady Tutorials
Best Photoshop Tutorials Around the World
Photoshop How-tos for Beginners and Pros
Tutorials for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, plus dozens of fonts, clip art, photos and plug-ins you can download free.

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