Now that so many good scrapbooking supply designers are Internet savvy, you can find plenty of free scrapbook designs online. So if you know how to do an Internet search and download files, you can find all the materials you need to create delightful scrapbooks. That’s why famous artist Mary Englebreit recently remarked that the Web is a great source of digital scrapbooking images that will yield virtually anything you might need. And she should know about quality images; products carrying her graphics sell like hotcakes!

The following are samples of some of the types of free scrapbook materials I’ve found on the Internet:

Antique

There seems to be an rise in the number of people looking for antique scrapbooking materials. Maybe that’s because vintage art is so timeless and doesn’t date the final product to any particular modern era. Antique greeting cards make terrific vintage scrapbooking embellishments, as does antique clipart. And when you can find digital scrapbooking papers made from compilations of vintage images, you’ll experience digital meeting traditional in a beautiful and useful way. Antique art also covers a range of subjects, which means you can find images as diverse as vintage posters, old sailing ships, Victorian fashion illustrations, magic show posters and vintage flowers. So whatever the topic of your scrapbook, you can probably find vintage art to match.

Holiday

Holidays just naturally invite the creation of scrapbooks, since those are the occasions when many of us create some of our most lasting memories. And Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Valentine’s Day aren’t the only holidays that make people want to create scrapbooks; many people are interested in the minor holidays too. You can find lots of patriotic scrapbooking papers and embellishments on the Web for holidays such as Veterans Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Flag Day. You can also find free environmental clip art suitable for Earth Day, in addition to images for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and any other holiday you can think of; even the off-beat and downright bizarre ones.

Floral- and Butterfly-themed

I’ve definitely noticed that scrapbookers love flowers, and who can blame them? They’re appropriate for almost any occasion. Butterflies, too, have a large audience, 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. There are even butterfly scrapbooking papers that have coordinating modern and vintage designs available in the same collections.

Wedding Images

Scrapbooks and weddings are a natural combination, because couples usually have at least one photo wedding album. But if you can make it a wedding scrapbook instead, you can preserve your memories in an even more creative way. There is a surprisingly good selection of wedding scrapbooking images on the Web that will allow you to create a lasting memento for little or no cost. And if you can’t find any specifically for weddings, flower images would also be a great choice.

Baby

Like weddings, tiny tots invite photography. And, of course, scrapbookers love to use those photos to create family heirlooms. Fortunately, this can be done for next to nothing using just scrapbook graphics 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. Blue and pink are still popular, of course, it’s just that you can find a lot of bolder color choices too.

So the next time you need scrapbook  designs, check the Internet. You might find some amazing free things.