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Crafty Topics
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Great Digital Art for Crafters Websites
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A digital word art website, featuring positive, inspirational sayings in a contemporary design style, perfect as a finishing touch to those special projects!
Each image is available as a high-res, 300 dpi file, available for immediate download. Our design themes are: love, peace, grace, faith, truth and ‘life is a journey’.
We started a better world because we believe that positive words can change lives. We invite you stop by and find just the right image to enhance your project.
http://home.comcast.net/~abwdesigns
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
Layering design elements can bring an added sense of dimension to two-dimensional surfaces. Using our designs as an example: First, start by importing your primary image (a digital photo for instance) into a graphics program. Using word art with a transparent background, import it onto your palette as a top layer. Place a portion of the word art over a lighter part of your primary image, allowing the balance of the image to extend beyond the boundary of your primary image.
Once you have it just the way you like it, print it out on your best printer setting, and apply!
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Adorable Primitive & Country Graphics at affordable prices, as well as a selection of art prints by Trina Clark, rubber stamps, printables, digital scrapbook kits, and more. YES! You can use the graphics you purchase to create crafts intended for profit! YES! You can use the graphics to create web sets, auction templates, digital scrapbook kits, digital embroidery patterns, sewing patterns, and so much more. No commercial license required. EASY terms of use with the crafter in mind!
http://designsbytrina.com
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
Use clear contact paper as a protective cover for handpainted tiles.
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Whimsical clipart for embroidery, scrapbooking, printing, painting and more. High quality vector graphics. Thousands of designs to choose from! Huge variety. Exclusive and semi exclusive sets. Freebies and more!
http://www.diddybag.com
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
When buying clipart, insist on vector art. Why? Because a jpeg can only be sized 100% larger than it is. Vector art can be sized as large as a billboard and never loose resolution!
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A site honoring the works of old and breathing new life into drawings, paintings and other images that have since gone out of copyright and are in the public domain. We select pictures and drawings that we think have the most potential for scrapbookers, collage makers, mixed media artists, stationary makers, ATC enthusiasts, and other crafters.
We have an ever-growing collection of categorized images that include animals, fancy letters, people and cartoons. We also have sets of images that would be perfect to create a story or theme in your next crafting project.
http://www.reusableart.com
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
If you plan on creating items to sell from free images you have found on the Internet, make sure that they are copyright and royalty free. Copyright free means that the original owner no longer controls who can use their image and what can be done with it. Royalty free means the person who created an image still enjoys copyright protection and typically sells the picture to others, but does not require additional charges for using their image. If you are looking for free images to use with your crafts, look for terms like copyright free and public domain to ensure that the images are truly free to use and simply not "borrowed" from their original owner.
Copyright laws vary from country to country and what may be no longer under copyright in one country may still be protected in another.
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Heaven Country Graphics specializes in primitive country graphics, digital scrapbooking supplies, printable graphics, web clipart, backgrounds, personalized banners, and merchant websets. Visit our free country graphics pages for page backgrounds, scrapbook papers, desktops, and more.
http://www.heavengraphics.com/free-graphic.htm
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
Using free online printables to create scrapbook papers, small gift wrap or photo mattes is so easy. A simple way to make darling craft tags or labels for your product is to use a downloadable background or scrapbook paper and use it as a background with a tag template in a graphics program to add your own text. Then just print and add to your product!
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Original whimsical and country themed clipart, websets, digi scrap, printables, myspace graphics and a free clipart club.
http://www.primsydoodledesigns.com
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
In order to succeed in an online craft business you must be sure to network with others selling similar items. You need as many relevant (similar) inbound links as possible.
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Wonderful blog by the talented artist Mandie Lancaster. You might know Mandi for the beautiful vinyl decals she sells in her Etsy shop, but her blog is where she shares a large variety of digital banners, buttons, backgrounds and just about anything else you could think of to adorn your sites and blogs. Best of all they're all free to use and come in a variety of colors, themes and even holidays. Most have a decidedly primitive look but all only require a credit link to use.
http://lifeinthecraftlanewithmandie.blogspot.com
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Digital Art for Crafters Crafty Tip
Explore your creativity by utilizing clip art for embroidery, quilting and just about any crafting medium to create something truly unique. Just taking a piece of clip art and embroidering the outline will turn an ordinary item into something unique and memorable.
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