Free Digital Elements Archives

July 10, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Free Digital Embellishments – Whimsical Flair

Here is the latest digital embellishment freebie, for your digital or hybrid crafting use. These flair were made from the digital designs I released a couple of months of ago which seem to be pretty popular. Thanks to all my visitors.

If you have visited this blog before you will know that, I really like the color scheme black, white and red. I created the original files in a pdf freebie. So, I decided to create matching flair. They are created at 300 dpi and measure approximately 1″ in diameter (300 px by 300 px). They are created for personal use only.

Just like the other embellishments I made, I got so excited that I went beyond creating the embellishments and created the packaging as well…it’s getting pretty standard.

So, here they are for your digital or hybrid scrapbooking use. Click on the image to download the full 300 dpi flair file. I hope you like them.

Flair #1

Flair #2

Flair #3

Flair #4

Bonus Flair #5

Before you download, you might want to read the following TOU.

Note About TOU:

As usual these are free for personal use, (check my full TOU if you haven’t previously.) If you have been here before, you know the drill. If not, you might want to read the quick TOU before you access the printable.

*Vintage Glam Collectibles or Vintage Glam Studio digital resources are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim them as your own.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way or use in any commercial scrapbooking kits.

*Copyright remains with Vintage Glam Studio – Dru Cortez
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Collectibles & link back to my blog.

Details About the images:

*All images are made at 300 dpi so the digital files will usually be very large.

*Most will be .png files (transparent backgrounds) so that you can layer them on to your scrapbooking backgrounds or photos. Not for S4H, S4O or CU use.

*Most elements will not include a drop shadow, as I will leave that up to you to add one if you like. They are included only in the preview images.

*I will be providing these elements with the assumption that you know how to use either Photoshop Elements, the open source photo editing program GIMP, Photoshop, or other photo editing software. While I would like to offer support for these digital files, this is currently just a hobby and not my full time business.

*Most of my elements will be made from purchased commercial use or public domain resources, however if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon due to inappropriate final use, the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be available. (I try to be scrupulous about what resources I use, but I may miss some.)

Vintage Paper Craft Buttons – Free Digital Embellishments

Do you love paper crafted items and vintage ephemera? I love the paper crafted embellishments that so many creative gals (and guys) come up with and of course, there is a gallery of ideas you can access on Pinterest. I lose time quickly on Pinterest looking at all the paper crafting pins.

If you have visited this blog before you will know that, I really like paper crafts with a vintage or retro theme and when a crafter combines sewing with paper crafting…well, that just about does it for me.

So I almost flipped when I saw these beauties in the following pin on Pinterest. They were posted on a French website, where I believe the crafter had made them herself, including the packaging.

I liked both the vintage button card, the color theme and the actual embellishments. So, my creative juices started flowing and I thought I just had to come up with a similar digital version of my own.

Voila!, this is the first of my digital embellishments on a vintage style button card. I used patterned digital paper, scanned vintage ephemera images, images of vintage buttons and a couple of other elements. I got so excited that I went beyond creating the embellishments and created the packaging as well! It was just a lot of fun working on this mini project.

And here’s where you come in…these are made available as freebies for you to use for your hybrid or digital scrapbooking use. I hope you like them. 🙂

Digital Button Embellishment #1

Digital Button Embellishment #2

Note About TOU:

As usual these are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.) If you have been here before, you know the drill. If not, you might want to read the quick TOU before you access the printable.

Some things you should know before downloading:

*Copyright remains with Vintage Glam Studio – Dru Cortez
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Collectibles & link back to my blog.

Details About the Images:

*All images are made at 300 dpi so the digital files will usually be very large. For example, these images are at 600 pixels by 600 pixels and would print out at 2” by 2”, if printing out is your goal, but they are designed as digital files for digital layouts.

*Most will be .png files (transparent backgrounds) so that you can layer them on to your scrapbooking backgrounds or photos.

*Most elements will not include a drop shadow, as I will leave that up to you to add one if you like. They are included only in the preview images.

*Most of my elements will be made from purchased commercial use or public domain resources, however if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be available. (I try to be scrupulous about what resources I use, but I may miss some.)

June 15, 2013 By Dru Cortez

Happy Father’s Day Greetings and New Freebie Category

We, are one day away from Father’s Day, so I thought I would create a scrapbooking layout that would celebrate the occasion and take the time to share a new blog freebie category!

Unfortunately, my own father passed away a month ago yesterday, and while I wanted to create a scrapbooking layout in his honor for the holiday , it was a little too emotional and raw attempting to complete it…maybe next year.

So, I scrapped that idea and decided to do something else. In any case , I picked up this awesome freebie picture of a young father protectively gazing over his sweet baby and thought that this layout would do heaps in honoring all great dads! So…Happy Father’s Day!

The funny thing is when I am not out and about sourcing vintage items. I find I am spending most of my leisure time digital scrapbooking , illustrating and creating elements, photo editing and hybrid scrapbooking as a hobby with a lot more frequency.

I have even given up any leisure television watching to spend time on all the things I am creating, which wasn’t that much in the first place, but even that has disappeared. And furthermore, with some of the new tools I have been buying (others I received as awesome birthday gifts), I will have more ideas and freebies to share in the future.

But back to my new freebie category, what I find is that as I am working on obtaining the right elements for a layout, I often find myself creating some of my own.

Why? Because I usually just want one particular element, and don’t want to purchase a whole kit online. For example, for the layout pictured above, I made three versions of the words “Dad” and obviously settled with one.

So, I thought that maybe these elements could get a new life , (instead of sitting around doing nothing on my hard drive or jump drive), and I have decided to share them as digital download freebies for your digital scrapbooking needs. Most of the elements I will provide will have vintage themed styled elements but there will be a lot of “modern” ones as well.

(Of course, I would like you to abide by my TOU. Please check it out, if you haven’t read it already. All of these elements or embellishments are created by me and I own the copyright but they will be free to use for your personal use, for posting scrapbooking layouts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media, and digital or hybrid scrapbooking uses.)

A note about the images:

*All images are made at 300 dpi so the digital files will usually be very large. For example, these images are at 1200 pixels by 1200 pixels and would print out at 4” by 4”.

*Most will be .png files (transparent backgrounds) so that you can layer them on to your backgrounds or photos.

*Most elements will not include a drop shadow, as I will leave that up to you to add one if you like. However, two of the following “Dad” files will include the drop shadow.

*Most of my elements will be 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 the freebie will no longer be available. (I try to be scrupulous about what resources I use, but I may miss some.)

So here they are:

Word Art #1

Word Art #2

Word Art #3