Word Art Graphics and Clip Art Quotations

Word art graphics and clip art banners are popular for scrapbooking, journaling, collage and card making. Word art quote graphics are also handy for making flyers and posters. Word art typography graphics are visually appealing - an artistic quote enhances the words. Journaling with clip art quotes and word art is purely expressive. Grab and use these free word art sentiments and clip art phrases for your papercrafts, scrapbooks or collage art, or use them as digital stamps.

I love meaningful quotations and decorative fonts. Word art combines them to create art from inspirational text and beautiful alphabets This lens features my favorite collections of word art and clip art quotes.

Quotation graphics offer insight and inspiration for a wide variety of crafts and they're wonderful journaling prompts. Inspirational quotes arranged artistically become beautiful clip art to use for all sorts of paper crafts or to frame as artwork. I like to use word art and clip art quotations for collage and scrapbook layouts.

Word Art Defined ... and Expanded

Word art is a term originally given to stylized text used in Microsoft products. On a more general note, word art refers to a technique for making unique graphics from text using fonts and various graphic filters, warps, shadows, textures or outlines. Word art is also used as the description of any text that has been arranged by a designer to create an appealing pattern or layout that enhances its meaning. Word art banners or headers are popular digital design elements in scrapbooking, cardmaking and desktop publishing programs.

Word art is artistically manipulated text or fonts with special effects added. Designers, graphic artists, sign makers and artists love to create visual elements that convey a message as powerful as the words themselves. Sometimes a special font can do the trick, other times a phrase needs some artistic manipulation to illustrate a mood or make a statement. Word art takes fonts to new levels ... artful arrangement of the text in a quote creates a beautiful word picture. Word art can be powerful or subtle - when you have the right font combined with special effects and colors your words become a work of art - Word Art.

I love to design word art graphics. I use several different software tools to create my logos and quote graphics including Photoshop, but Photoshop can be hard to learn and tough on the pocketbook. Photoshop Elements is far easier to learn than Photoshop, and you can use it to make your own very cool word art and clip art. Photoshop Elements costs far less than other graphic editing programs with similar features.

Photoshop Elements is available as a download or media product.

From newbie to advanced, there's always more to learn about Photoshop. Choose your instruction level to features and special effects from this list of expert guides.

Word Art Selections From My Drawing Board

I play with fonts and design every time I use my computer. Many of my favorite graphics are built around a pun or play on words combined with type. Here are several samples of free scrapbook graphics I created that use words, shapes and color to create word art and thought pictures.

These free scrapbooking resources feature word art plus coordinated papers, patterns, fonts, clip art borders and embellishments for making word art, quotation graphics and gorgeous cards or journal pages.

Use these free word art graphics for desktop publishing, paper crafts: flyers, blogs, collages, scrapbook pages, card making, altered books, decorations/ornaments, party favors and other crafts.

Design your own inspirational quote digital stamps, clip art and word art with fonts you choose and customize yourself.

These free online resources offer all types of tools for making your own clever or insightful word art and quotes into posters, signs, banners or blog headers.

Free Clip Art, Fonts and Borders
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Cats Rule Dogs Drool word art graphics I designed for my Zazzle store, Image Factory.

These quote sites will give you plenty of ideas for creating word art and quotation clip art of your own design.

If you leave a particularly clever or inspiring message, I just might make it into original word art and post it on this page. If I choose to create a quote graphic from your comment or suggestion, you'll be credited and I'll link your quote to your profile or web site. If you quote someone, please let us know the author.