Free downloadable ephemra from delygirl

You can find yourself spending hours searching on Google, Flickr or Bing, just to find a good quality image and then to find out that the terms of use TOU limits you solely to your own personal DIY crafts or the image can not be used for commercial purposes at all which includes, using the image online or on your web page or blog designs.

To some degree, I can understand the blog owner's restrictions, too often unscrupulous blog visitors will download images and then repackage them as downloadable images, post them for resale on CDs, on their own websites, or sell them as digital collage sheets sold on Etsy or other online sites. This is the dark side of having access to free authentic , vintage downloadable images. For the most part, what these visitors fail to understand is that there are copyright laws that protect blog site owners and their scanned photos or images.

So there usually is a generous, kind community that develops around these blogs and sites. I just wanted to let you know about some of the better, free high quality vintage image resources that are available and I have found online. By high quality images, I mean either downloadable images saved as.

Very often you might find free images but either the download sites are filled with computer bugs or excessive ads or the images are low resolution quality and require a lot of digital cleanup work.

So I compiled these sites as sites that provide great images and have generous terms of use. At least a couple of these sites are owned by professional graphic designers, and they provide high resolution images in zipped files and downloadable sites that are safe and bug free. Graphics Fairy — this site has numerous , high-quality vintage images, digital papers, textures, and other embellishments often saved as either. Hey fellow crafter, do you like this printable enough to use as tags for your small crafting business, church social or journal meetup?

You can purchase my micro-business commercial license in my Etsy Shop. Most of my elements are made from Commercial use or public domain sources. However, if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and will no longer be available. Designers vary in their restrictions for their terms of use even for CU items , so although I try to be scrupulous, I may miss some.

Oh, Dru! My interest in scrapbooking has recently morphed into making junk journals and these tabs are fabulous!! Thanks so much! I love these! Thank you for sharing these! Going to look through your other vintage ephemera. I KNOW there are a bunch of free vintage images out there, but but I like mine to be a bit more edgy! I used a variety of sources for the bees in these tags including Graphics Fairy pictures in the public domain and Big Stock Photo.

All images were purchased and the designs are my own. You can use these for any of your own personal artwork or for finished products that you sell on Etsy or any other online store.

The bee tags are part of my resource library which has LOTS of free printables and worksheets to use in your crafting! I would like to make a bee journal for my daughter, she has honey bees on her farm. You can read more in my privacy and disclosure policy. Creative Market is probably my favorite resource out there for creating my own junk journal graphics, or just finding backgrounds and vintage ephemera.

Not to mention gorgeous historic fonts. I mean, look at this one:. Each Monday, they release 6 of their collections for free! Completely free, and there are a new 6 each week. All you have to do is sign up for an account and download them. Best of all, you can use them in personal projects and projects to sell. So no worrying about the details like you sometimes have to with Etsy.

Powered by Creative Market. The site has tons of free vintage images and ephemera. Much of it is completely free to use, and the site has definitely embraced junk journalers as they regularly put out junk journal content, and even feature junk journalers on their site.

They also have a membership upgrade that gets you access to their entire library of vintage bundles, textures, and laces. All for use in your projects, journals and more. The quality here is hit or miss as the graphics are free and generally designed for use on the web rather than for high quality printables.

Make sure you read more on it before incorporating them into your designs though. The NYPL has been fantastic enough to not only make large portions of their collection digital , but have also been kind enough to flag portions that are part of the public domain.

Honestly, I just get lost for what seems like hours paging through the collections and saving things I think I might use. Best of all since these resources are scanned to archival standards, they are available in a variety of sizes including high resolution tiffs which makes them perfect for printing.