Digital Stamps Clip Art - Digi Stamps for Paper Crafters
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Unique paper crafts: digital stamps, digistamps, special clip art for paper crafts
I've been a visual artist and clip art designer for decades. I draw digital art every week for my web site graphics and coloring page collections, and I've used digital stamp techniques in my own arts and crafts. I had no idea digital stamping was such a popular paper craft technique or that it even had an official name, but I'm glad I know about digital stamping now. It gives me a new way to share thousands of free coloring page pictures.
This lens shares the best of what I've learned about digital stamp art and paper crafts. Welcome to my collection of digital stamp freebies, downloads, tutorials, projects and tips for digital stamp lovers.
Hawaiian hibiscus flower digital stamp art available for noncommercial use - copyright LeeHansen.com
Getting Started with Digital Stamps
Greeting Card Tutorial - Digital Stamp Flower Card Craft
Clip Art Borders and Frames Illustrations
Copyright Free Retro Graphics
Ready-to-Use Art Nouveau Small Frames and Borders (Dover Clip Art Ready-to-Use)
Amazon Price: $4.95 (as of 02/22/2012)
Scan your favorite vintage images in 600 or 300 dpi to create resizeable TIFF or PNG graphics to use as digital stamps, or anke a black and white copy of the graphics you need for your digistamp project.
All About Digital Stamps
What is a Digital Stamp? How Do I Craft with DigiStamps?
Traditional rubber stamps cost more than digital stamps, and they take up more space in your craft room or crop basket. Digital stamps are very easy to transport - all you need to carry is your computer with the digital stamps on your drive or a portable drive when you travel with digistamps. You do need a printer, however, to produce your finished digistamp creations.
Here are my favorite links to pages that explain all about digital stamps and offer free projects you can create with your digistamp collection.
- Digi Stamps - Learn About Digital Stamps
- Learn about digital stamps from the user community at About! Digital stamping is becoming increasingly popular as more crafters combine traditional and computer art to make paper crafts. Learn more about digital or digi stamps in this basic article, and also find resources related to digital stamp techniques. You'lll also find a series of comments by digital stamp users and clip art fans.
- Digi Stamps
- All about digital stamps, hosted by Digi Darla.
Digital Graphics in Black and White
Clip art collections and digital stamp graphics
Magic and Mystical Symbols CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Amazon Price: $9.07 (as of 02/22/2012)
Dover clip art images are famous for quality and clarity. Dover has been producing clip art and image design books since before the age of digital graphics - in other words, since "clip art" really was cut from the pages of a book and pasted into place.
Digital Stamp Craft Techniques
Artistic digital stamp graphic effects, alterations, digistamp creative DIY
- Toucan Scraps Tutorials: Colouring a Digital Stamped Flower
- How to add unique shaded colouring techniques to a flower digital stamp using alcohol based markers.
- Make your own digital stamps
- How to make Photoshop brushes and use them as stamps for your art, by Gillian Allen
- Paper Piecing with Digital Stamps :: Amy Heller - Crate Paper
- Hi there everyone! Amy Heller here today with a fun tutorial on paper-piecing with digital stamps. This technique is great for cards, but can also be used for scrapbooking as well. Digital stamps are fantastic in that way, because you...
- YorkieMom's Creative Corner: I LOVE this little frog image!!!
- How to make a digital stamp from a dingbat font character.
- Squigglefly.com Digital Stamps Tutorials
- Video tutorials for a variety of digital stamping and paper crafting techniques.
Working with PNG images in Adobe Photoshop
PNG Digital Stamps with Transparent Backgrounds
Digital Stamps - Similar to Clip Art or Photoshop Brushes
True Digital Stamps Are Black and White
Digital stamps are a relatively new genre of electronic art for crafters. Some critics consider digital stamps nothing more than clip art with a different name. Stamp designers and craft artist who use digital stamps disagree. Digital stamps in their purest form are only produced in black and white and are available in good quality as JPG, PNG and (sometimes TIFF) graphic file formats.Digital stamps are designed to be manipulated using a graphic program or specialty software designed for paper crafting. You can also resize and print a digital stamp image using Microsoft Word or Paint. Simply open your digital stamp graphic, resize it to the dimensions you need for your paper craft project, then print it, cut it out and embellish it however you like.
Digital stamp images are usually produced in a fairly large size that you can easily make smaller with no loss of quality. You can alter digital stamps with your computer to add textures, flip them over, add color or patterns and use them in layers for greeting cards, scrapbook pages or creative paper crafts such as collages, artist trading cards, tags and posters.
Old Fashioned Design Images
Black and White Clip Art to Make Your Own Digital Stamps
Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Illustrations of Books, Reading and Writing (Dover Clip Art Ready-to-Use)
Amazon Price: $3.98 (as of 02/22/2012)
Before computer art, clip art came in books to cut out and paste into place on your artwork. If you scan these vintage and retro clip art images you'll have a huge collection of digital stamps.
Scan Images to Create Your Own Digital Stamps
Scan at 300 or 600 dpi to create larger graphics
Canon CanoScan 9000F Color Image Scanner
Amazon Price: (as of 02/22/2012)
List Price: $249.99
A good quality scanner makes image capture and cleanup easier and will give you years of high resolution scans. Many scanners can also create PDF files on the fly.
Learning About Digital Stamping
Digitized Line Art in Black and White - Coloring Page Graphics for Crafters
Before I started creating digital stamps, though, I did plenty of research to learn about about digi stamps - how they're used, what topics are popular, different methods of creating/sharing/using digistamps, and what formats and sizes are the most preferred by digital stamp artists. I gathered and reviewed dozens of free digital stamp resources while conducting research about these popular graphic files.
Digital Stamps for Paper Crafts, Stitching, Custom Clip Art
Black and White Digital Stamp Art Images - Art Outlinees for Crafters
Digital stamps by their nature are line drawings and so are sometimes converted for use in paper cutting, cake decorating and digitized embroidery machines. The equipment for these unique crafts requires special graphics files, but if you're a fan of these new forms of digital art crafts you've probably learned how to create your own cutting or digital embroidery masters from clip art or digital stamps.
Digital stamps work well with most traditional stamp art techniques for paper or card - in fact, they work nicely for almost any medium you can run through a printer. They aren't intended for extended stamp art crafts that involved dimensional prints or impression art techniques such as clay imprinting and fabric stamping.
Medieval Clip Art Designs
Traditional clip art ready for digitizing
Ready-to-Use Medieval Illustrations: 424 Different Copyright-Free Designs (Dover Clip Art Ready-to-Use)
Amazon Price: $4.09 (as of 02/22/2012)
Heraldry designs you can use as paper clip art or convert to digital media for digistamp crafts.
Free Digital Stamp Collections and Downloads
Most digistamp freebies are for personal use only
Note that most line art drawings, for example coloring pages, can be used for digistamp crafts. I've included selected links to coloring page art that can be used as digistamps in this section.
- Freebies - MY GRAFICO - DIGITAL ARTS AND CRAFTS STORE
- MYGRAFICO is a leading Digital Online store with Hand selected Designers. Our unique designs come with affordable prices. We offer Commercial Use high quality Designer cliparts, digital stamps, Photoshop brushes, creative paper sets, scrapbooking designs, SVG cutting templates, premade party printables and more.
- Free Coloring Pages, Line Drawings and Outlines - Printable Pictures to Color
- Free coloring pages, drawing outlines and line art pictures to print and color or use to make digital stamps.
- Free Digital Stamps
- This is a huge sharing site for digital stamps - download or upload your favorite free digistamps and papers from this blog.
- Top 100 Digital Stamping Sites
- This is a directory of digital stamp sites with linked banner listings ordered by popularity.
- Stamping Freebies at Craft Gossip
- The very best stamping craft ideas and freebie downloads for digital stamping and traditional stamping paper crafts.
- Squigglefly.com Digital Stamps - Digital Stamp Downloads
- Join the digital stamp revolution in stamping, cardmaking and scrapbooking! Check out our 100% digital stamps perfect for all your projects with these free digital stamps.!
- Free Digital Stamps
- Totally free digital stamps created for download by a team of talented graphic artists.
- Free Digital Images & Digi Stamps - Splitcoaststampers
- Digital Images - Post and download free digital images and/or backgrounds
- Links to Free Digital Stamps
- I thought I would start a new thread for links to free digital stamps. We started a list that was kind of buried so I think this will be easier to
- Layers of Color Art Digital Stamps
- Layers of Color is an art stamp manufacturer and boutique where stampers can find unique stamp products and be inspired by fresh out-of-the-box ideas.
- Public Domain Images, Digital Stamps
- Public domain images from my personal collection for you to use in your art work.
- Get FREE Digi Stamps fromn DigiDarla
- Sign up to receive access to free digital stamps and participate in monthly challenges and digistamp giveaways.
- my sugar paper: Freebies - Digital Stamps to Download
- Free line art in digital form for digital stamping and crafts.
DIY Digital Stamps - Dingbat Fonts
Use character fonts to create digistamps
You can create your own clever digital stamps from special fonts that have pictures and symbols in place of letters. These symbol fonts are known as dingbat fonts. There are many free dingbat and character fonts available for free download. Check out some of these great resources to find fun and free fonts you can use to make your own digital stamp art.
Free Dingbat Fonts - download free fonts by Divide by Zero at Clip Art 'n Crafts.
Fonts for Free - free fonts, type tools, dingbat fonts
Free Fonts at DaFont - Dingbat fonts in more than a dozen categories.
Wedding Clip Art for Digital Stamping
DIY Digital Stamps
Ready-to-Use Wedding Illustrations (Dover Clip Art Series)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 02/22/2012)
These ready to use cut out wedding clip art images are easy to scan, or you can copy them with a photocopy machine.
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My special page with freebies for all types of paper crafts
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School and Education Clip Art
Copyright Free Graphics
Ready-to-Use School and Education Illustrations (Dover Clip-Art Series)
Amazon Price: $4.40 (as of 02/22/2012)
This high quality low cost black and white art is ready for you to scan and convert to custom digital stamps.
Photoshop Brushes are Fancy Digital Stamps
Digital Stamps for Photoshop
- Free Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials
- Free Photoshop brushes digital stamp tools to download and how to use them.
- The Best FREE Photoshop Brushes
- Free Photoshop brushes to use for digistamp and graphic design or scrapbook layouts.
- Adobe Photoshop Brushes
- Long list of Photoshop brush resources. Check WOT ratings on links.
Charming Butterflies Stamps
Traditional "Rubber" Stamps Designs
Butterfly Rubber Stamp Set By Cavallini & Co.
Amazon Price: $22.26 (as of 02/22/2012)
Stampers create all types of fancy art and 3 dimensional designs from simple ink pad stamped images made with traditional rubber stamps. With digital stamps you can create many of the same effects as you can make with traditional stamps but you need to adjust your techniques. Many stamping crafters combine both traditional stamp pad art and digital stamps in their paper craft works.
Digital Stamp Freebies
Japanese Cherry Blossoms
Download this free digital stamp art at Clip Art 'n Crafts ... free for non-commercial use. Please credit site if you use this image for your crafts.
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Leave a comment or a suggestion for a unique digitial stamp resource or project here.
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JziE
Dec 13, 2011 @ 9:50 am | delete
- great stuff
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Jewelsofawe
Nov 2, 2011 @ 3:37 pm | delete
- Cool lens!
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Serenity30
Oct 23, 2011 @ 9:39 am | delete
- Stamped!
Nice collection of resources
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Koupie Sep 20, 2011 @ 3:21 pm | delete
- I love them, use a lot of brushes in Photoshop too.
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- A stamp of approval for all the great resources and videos which I watched and links I followed. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
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- I give you my stamp of approval. Great digital stamp lens and informative.
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- Wonderful! You have my stamp of approval.
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