Make your own printed crafts and paper printables from free clip art and graphics.
It's easy and fun to design your own clipart crafts for friends and family with free graphics, borders and clip art photos or pictures.
Sometimes the biggest challenge is finding the right graphic ... this Squidoo lens will make it easier to find and use the best free clip art and craft graphics.
Plus, this Clip Art Crafts lens will feature tips, paper craft projects and links to ready-to-craft printables and clip art (free graphics) for your crafting fun. Check the links section below, and if you know of a great free clip art or craft link (blog, lens or web page) - please suggest it as a new link for this lens!
Free clip art is readily available on the Internet. If you're using it for your own projects - not to sell or collect and repackage - you can pick and choose from millions of delightful graphics in free web collections.
For example, many sites offer free clip art in large sizes, available without registration. Check out my Clip Art and Graphics - Free for All lens to find hundreds of sites with free high quality clip art to use for crafts, desktop publishing and web pages or blogs.
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- Computer clip art, vector images, and photography made specifically for crafters.
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- Small samples of professional commercial clipart you can purchase in larger format or to use for ideas.
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!
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Basic blanks for making your own crafts, labels, and printables
- Blank Templates - Alenka's Printables
- Free printable templates for computer clip art crafting.
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- Free graphic design templates for greeting cards, wedding invitations, holiday cards, brochures, flyers and more.
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- Print out this free template and make your own personalized party favor bags.
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- Free templates to make your own invitations for your party or event.
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How to Make Bookmarks with Free Clip Art and 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.
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WrinkleCreamSpecialist
Wow, a lot to learn here! I liked it a lot! 5 to you! Posted May 10, 2008 |
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adez7
THis is a very nice lens with great information and tips. :) Posted May 10, 2008 |
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beeobrien
Terrific ideas here. My kids and I love this kind of thing. I'll be visiting your website soon. Posted May 10, 2008 |
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marieave
Crafts are one of my sons habbits so i plan on coming back and using it for him! Posted March 27, 2008 |
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thomasz
Cool lens. Interesting info. Posted February 13, 2008 |
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bsilvia
Your Clip Art Crafts are also cool, and I lensrolled it to Graphics-illustrations lens! Posted January 22, 2008 |
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I'm back -- lensrolling you for my Valentine Graphics lens. Posted January 10, 2008 |
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Aika
This is a very resourceful and creative idea. Thanks for sharing you talent. Keep it up girl ^_^ Posted November 11, 2007 |
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Jimmie
Very fun! I love graphics and crafts! I lensrolled your other clip art lens on three of mine. :-) Posted October 13, 2007 |
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nightcats
Great informative lens. There is good information here for people who want to increase their computer skills with graphics and clip art. I'm giving you a lens roll for my Thanksgiving clipart lens. Posted September 21, 2007 |
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