Jewel Tone Watercolor Papers

About this freebie

Add rich color to your layouts with this free pack of 8 digital papers. The Jewel Tone Watercolor Papers feature deep emerald, sapphire, and ruby washes alongside pearl, amber, and midnight accents. You get a mix of textures and patterns, including a dark floral, an argyle, a pinstripe, and solid backgrounds. These 12x12 inch JPG files are perfect for everyday scrapbook pages and handmade cards.

Ideas for using it

1. Create a bold background for black and white family portraits using the dark floral paper and a few pearl accents.
2. Print the solid emerald, sapphire, and ruby papers to cut out bright shapes and frames for your handmade greeting cards.
3. Use the argyle and pinstripe patterns to design masculine layouts for birthdays or everyday family moments.
4. Layer the soft wash and watercolor wash papers behind your photos to add a gentle painted effect to your pages.

How to use it

• These papers are 12x12 inches at 300 dpi. Read our guide on page sizes and printing if you need to print them on smaller paper.
• The 8.6 MB ZIP file contains standard JPG images. You can open these files in any basic photo viewer or digital scrapbooking software.
• You are free to use these papers for personal layouts and for cards you sell. The original files themselves may not be shared or sold.
• Adjust the opacity of the solid papers in your software to create custom vellum overlays for your photographs.
• 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 jewel-tone-watercolor-papers with the files below (file names start with jewel-tone-watercolor-papers-), plus README.txt and LICENSE.txt.