Paper Clips and Brads

About this freebie

The Paper Clips and Brads embellishment pack includes 13 items to decorate your digital pages. You get 4 paper clips, 5 brads, 2 photo corners, and 2 sequins in neutral shades of linen, kraft, stone, cream, taupe, and espresso. These transparent PNG files are saved at 300 dpi and include a soft drop shadow for a realistic look. This versatile set is a great fit for everyday layouts, family albums, and printable greeting cards.

Ideas for using it

1. Anchor a small journaling block to your background paper using one of the metal paper clips. This adds texture without distracting from your story.
2. Place the photo corners on the edges of a vintage family portrait to give it a classic scrapbook album feel.
3. Scatter the sequins and brads around a main cluster of flowers or tags to fill empty spaces in your page design.
4. Use the espresso and taupe brads to visually attach ribbons or paper strips across the center of your layout.

How to use it

• These PNG files already include a soft drop shadow. You do not need to add your own shadow effects in your image editing software.
• If you want to match a specific paper, you can try recoloring digital elements using the hue and saturation sliders in your graphics program.
• The 0.4 MB ZIP file is small and downloads quickly. Extract the folder to your computer before trying to drag the PNG files onto your canvas.
• Make sure your software supports transparent PNG files. You can easily resize these embellishments by dragging the corner handles of the bounding box.
• Elements are transparent PNG files: drag them onto a page above your papers.
• Each element includes a soft drop shadow. Keep one light direction for the whole page.

What is inside the ZIP

One folder named paper-clips-and-brads with the files below (file names start with paper-clips-and-brads-), plus README.txt and LICENSE.txt.