Even though the economy is bad at the moment, people still want to throw distinctive baby showers. The trick to doing this in a slow economy is to save money in areas that won’t be noticed. That can start with the shower invitations and move right on through the decorations and the scrapbooks created after the fact.

One method for doing that is to use good free baby shower clipart. Often you can find very nice free images online. Just search for “free baby shower clip art,” plus the type of image you want. For instance, if you’d like pink baby girl clip art, type those words or some variation. The same will work with virtually any theme you can think of, although the more obscure the theme, the less results a search will garner. If you’re lucky enough to find high resolution art when you search, you’ll be able to use the images in a variety of ways. That’s because that you need high-resolution images for print pieces, such as invitations or decorations. You can’t use low-resolution images because the final printed piece would be low quality. That would never do for a baby shower invitation, thank you card or decorations.

Baby shower clip art isn’t the only free resource you can find on the ‘Net. There are also many sites that present free baby scrapbook pages. Many scrapbook paper and embellishment designers give away free versions of their baby shower scrapbooking designs to promote scrapbooking designs they sell or to get people to come to pages that have advertising. Either of these models give them a financial incentive to offer scrapbook paper and embellishment freebies. Either way, you win! The themes for these are almost as numerous as there are fish in the ocean, so they can be used instead of or in addition to clip art to make shower invitations and decorations. Themes range from goofy to retro to luxurious and classy. In case you didn’t know, vintage is particularly popular right now, so you might want to try searching for free vintage baby scrapbooking embellishments. A mother-to-be who loves this kind of art would probably be so pleased to have it as her shower theme!

It goes without saying that all the clip art, scrapbook papers and embellishments can also be used to preserve baby shower memories forever in a scrapbook that can be given to the mother-to-be. This means the time you spend looking for images will pay off over and over, giving the new mom a baby shower she’ll never forget.