Family Heritage Papers

About this freebie

The Family Heritage Papers pack brings a classic look to your genealogy and ancestry projects. This free download includes 8 digital papers in a palette of parchment, sepia, faded teal, dusty red, old gold, and umber. You receive versatile patterns like plaid, pinstripe, tiny dots, and a dark floral, along with textured linen, kraft, and solid backgrounds. These 12 x 12 inch JPG files are perfect for framing old black and white photographs or creating elegant family albums.

Ideas for using it

1. Build a title page for your ancestry album using the dark floral paper as a rich background for old gold lettering.
2. Layer the linen and kraft papers to create a neutral base for scanned black and white portraits of your grandparents.
3. Use the plaid and pinstripe patterns to make masculine birthday cards for the men in your family.
4. Combine the solid faded teal and solid sepia papers to mat your vintage photos and make them stand out.

How to use it

• Each paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels at 300 dpi. You can read about page sizes and printing to ensure your physical albums look sharp.
• The 10.1 MB ZIP file contains standard JPG images. You must extract the folder first to open the backgrounds in your photo editing software.
• You can use these free files for personal layouts and for cards you sell or give away. Just remember the files themselves cannot be shared.
• Use the papers as page backgrounds, or cut blocks and strips by clipping them to shapes.
• The papers are 3600 x 3600 pixels, so they can be scaled down for 8 x 8 inch albums without losing quality.

What is inside the ZIP

One folder named family-heritage-papers with the files below (file names start with family-heritage-papers-), plus README.txt and LICENSE.txt.