Looking for that perfect splash of vintage charm and color to jazz up your journal or collage art? These Colorful Vintage Collage Backgrounds are totally free to download and absolutely bursting with character! From celestial smiles to moody moths, elegant teacups, and dreamy florals—these pages are ready to inspire your next creative session!
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All Free Printables in One Place
This free printable set includes five full-page collage backgrounds, each layered with vintage ephemera, bold color palettes, and beautifully detailed illustrations. They're designed to be used as full journal pages or torn up for tags, clusters, envelopes, or backgrounds in your mixed media art!
Here’s what’s included:
- A golden yellow celestial collage with vintage moons and butterflies
- A grungy brown-gold gothic background with moths and music sheets
- A dreamy mint and seafoam green collage with luna moths
- A romantic rose-pink floral background with vintage ticket ephemera
- A delicate blue tea-time collage featuring vintage teacups and stamps
Why Did I Make These?
I love making collages. There's something magical about pulling together bits and pieces from the past and layering them into something totally new. These backgrounds came together because I wanted something fast, colorful, and ready-to-go—a way to jumpstart creativity without overthinking layout or design!
Whether you're into junk journals, vision boards, art journaling, or just love to snip and glue pretty paper, these backgrounds are a time-saving joy. Just plop them into your journal and get creating!
For this set I used a combination of my creativity and images from the Graphics Fairy!
Why Are They Free?
I believe beautiful things should be accessible. There’s so much joy in sharing what I make, and I love giving fellow crafters and journalers tools to create with freedom. These are totally free for personal use—because creativity should never be behind a paywall.
If you enjoy them, I hope you’ll share them with a crafty friend or tag me when you use them!
How to Print Them Out
Here’s how to get the best print quality for these collage pages:
- 📄 Paper suggestions: Matte presentation paper or bright white cardstock works beautifully. Regular printer paper is totally fine too.
- 🖨️ Settings: Choose “high quality” or “best” in your print settings for crisp detail.
- ✂️ Ideas for use: Print as is, cut into pieces, or even resize to mini journals or planner inserts!
Commercial License for Printing
Creative Commons License for Printed Printables
This license grants you broad rights to use and modify the provided free printables for any commercial purpose, with the primary requirement being that they are used in a printed, physical format. You are free to:
- Adapt, remix, and transform the Printables to create new works like journals to sell on Etsy or your own site, as long as they are printed.
- Redistribute printed copies of the Printables, meaning you can sell the whole sheets or cut them up and sell the parts.
- Use the Printables in any way that generates commercial value.
There is no license to distribute these digitally. If you want to share them with a friend, please just send her a link to this page and she can download them herself!
How to Download the Free Printable
You can get all of these awesome printables in the freebie library! Just click here or the image below to get your password (if you don’t have it already). If you already have the password, you can enter the freebie library and download hundreds of printables for free!
Colorful Collage Background Pages Wrap-Up
I hope these backgrounds spark a fresh wave of inspiration for your journal or next craft project. Whether you cut them into elements or paste them down whole, they’re designed to make creativity effortless and fun!
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