25 Free Printables for Craft Projects

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There is a particular moment where a handmade gift is finished and still looks unfinished, and it is almost always the label. These 25 free printables for craft projects are the fix: labels for jam jars, candles, lip balm and homemade dryer sheets, tags for the things you make and sell, and watercolor art you print and frame. Every one of them downloads free from the creator’s own post, with no account and no email address, so you print at home on ordinary paper or cardstock and the whole thing costs you ink. Some are one click. A few ask you to pick a color first. Start with the labels if you sell or gift anything you make, and with the art prints if you have a blank wall and no budget, because a frame and a printed page is the cheapest wall you will ever fill.

Free Printables for Craft Projects

1. Watercolor Vegetables Printable

Ten hand painted vegetables on one sheet, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, peas, garlic, broccoli, artichoke, zucchini and a radish, each one labelled underneath in pencil script. The maker taught herself watercolor from videos rather than classes, which is worth knowing because it is why the painting is loose rather than botanical: these look like a gardener’s notebook, not a field guide. Shown clipped to a small wooden clipboard on a marble counter, which costs a few dollars and beats a frame for something you might swap out seasonally. It suits a kitchen, a pantry door or a potting bench better than a living room.

Get the full tutorial at My Someday in May.

2. Spread Love Printable Art

“Spread love wherever you go” hand lettered inside a gold ring, on a dense floral background of pink, plum, aqua and green. It comes in two colorways, pink and gold or light pink and navy, so it can be matched to a room rather than dropped into one. The florals are licensed watercolor graphics rather than the blogger’s own painting, which she says outright. Framed plain and white it reads as a bought print, which is the test any free art printable has to pass. Good for a mantel, a gallery wall or a child’s room.

Get the full tutorial at Burlap and Blue.

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3. Food And Gift Labels

A vintage styled label set for jars and tins, offered in black, red, blue and green, and the useful part is that they are fillable PDFs rather than flat images. The text fields are editable in Adobe Reader, so “Hannah’s Homemade Lemon Curd” goes in before you print rather than being written on afterward in biro. They are laid out for a standard full page label sheet, the same size as Avery 5163, and the font type, size and color can all be changed. Jam, candles, wedding favors and kitchen storage are the uses suggested.

Get the full tutorial at Cathe Holden for the WorldLabel blog.

4. Flowers On Silver Platters Printables

Vintage floral images printed and mounted into old silver platters and oval trays, then hung as a cluster over a sofa. The gallery wall is the project; the printable is just what goes inside. It works because the frames are found objects at different sizes and metals, so the arrangement looks collected rather than bought as a set, and the soft floral prints keep a wall of silverware from reading heavy. Flea market platters cost a few dollars, the paper costs nothing, and the finished wall reads as antique.

Get the full tutorial at Jamie Lundstrom, So Much Better With Age.

5. Whimsical Free Printable

An inspirational line set above three hand painted watercolor plant pots, one blue, one woven basket, one gray jug, each stuffed with loose flowers. It comes in 8×10 and 5×7, so the same file suits a gallery wall or a shelf vignette. The maker’s own tip is the useful one: home printers flatten watercolor, so a local office supply store will run a laser copy onto card stock for under a dollar and the color holds far better. Personal use only. The pots are pretty enough to carry a plain frame in almost any room.

Get the full tutorial at Andrea, The Cottage Market.

6. Free Candle Label Printable

A cream wrap that goes around the middle of a pillar candle, with a scripted line about light printed on it, shown on a pale mint candle against dark weathered wood. A candle wrap is the printable to reach for when a gift needs to look considered and there is an hour left: a plain supermarket candle, a printed band, done. Print on a textured or laid paper rather than copy paper, because the wrap is the only surface anyone looks at. Free for personal use, and the creator asks that anyone sharing it links the post rather than the file.

Get the full tutorial at Fab N' Free.

7. Make Your Own Vintage Labels

A shelf of old bottles and jars, each wearing a plain aged label, and the technique is worth more here than any single file. Printable label shapes go onto kraft paper label sheets rather than plain copy paper, because the natural color does half the ageing for you, then the edges are distressed with ink until nothing looks freshly cut. Stick them to glass you have soaked the original labels off. Because the shapes print blank you write the contents by hand, which is what makes a whole shelf of them read as a collection rather than a matching set.

Get the full tutorial at Angie Holden, The Country Chic Cottage.

8. Soothing Chamomile Lip Balm Printable

Pale blue printable labels wrapped around lip balm tubes, sitting on old wood with fresh chamomile beside them. The balm itself is built on a chamomile infused oil, and there are three ways to make it: a jar of dried flowers covered with twice as much carrier oil then warmed in a pan of water for a few hours, the same jar left in a cabinet for four weeks, or a compromise on a sunny windowsill. Castor oil is added for a longer lasting, slightly glossy finish, and more infused oil can stand in if there is none.

Get the full tutorial at The Nerdy Farm Wife.

9. Free Printable Monogram Art

A gold initial inside a loose watercolor wreath of teal, coral, plum and mustard leaves and berries, and every letter of the alphabet is available, each as its own file. That matters more than it sounds: most free monogram sets cover a handful of letters and leave everyone whose name starts with Q out. Framed it suits a nursery or a gallery wall, and the maker also suggests printing it as a binder cover, which is the best cheap use for a monogram there is. Personal use only, not for resale.

Get the full tutorial at South Georgia Style, formerly The Happier Homemaker.

10. Freebies Vintage Music Paper

A kit of digital papers, antique sheet music and handwritten pages aged to tea browns and golds, supplied as one zip. Resolution is the whole point of this one: the file info line says 300 dpi, which means the paper prints at full size without the notation going soft, and that is where most free vintage paper downloads fall apart. Print it for junk journal pages, card backgrounds, gift wrap for something small, decoupage on a box, or as a liner for a drawer or a shelf. Print on cream rather than bright white to keep the age in it.

Get the full tutorial at Far Far Hill.

11. Wooden Background

A set of weathered wood plank backgrounds as printable digital papers, in grays, silvers and warm pale browns, with the grain and the knots left rough rather than smoothed out. These are a photography and craft prop rather than decor: print one and you have a rustic surface to shoot small handmade items on, or to use as a card background, a journal page or a backing board in a shadow box. Print at full size on matte paper, because gloss turns wood grain into a mirror and ruins it. Non-commercial use only.

Get the full tutorial at Scrap DOT.

12. Dryer Sheets Free Printable

A label for the jar that holds reusable dryer sheets, which are just cotton cloths soaked in a vinegar and essential oil mix. Half a cup of vinegar goes into an airtight jar with eight to ten drops of oil, lavender, tea tree or a blend, then rolled cloths go in and the jar gets turned over a few times to coat them. One cloth per load, wash it after, start a new batch. The label matters here because a jar of vinegar soaked rags on a laundry shelf needs to look like a system rather than a mistake.

Get the full tutorial at A Blissful Nest.

13. Beeswax Candles Printable Lables

Clean black bordered labels with the scent named across the top and the word CANDLE large underneath it, SOY AND BEESWAX below that, on frosted glass jars. Three scent recipes come with them, and the amounts are specific enough to actually follow: six ounces of soy wax and five and a half of filtered white beeswax to a batch of two, with three quarters of an ounce of espresso fragrance oil and a third of an ounce of chocolate for the chocolate espresso version. Two 7.75 ounce frosted jars, four wood wicks and a digital scale are the kit. Weigh, do not measure by eye.

Get the full tutorial at Rebecca's Soap Delicatessen, Soap Deli News.

14. Home Movie Theatre Night Free Printables

Black and white POPCORN tickets on a red gingham stripe, printed four to a strip and cut apart with a little notch at each end so they read as real tickets. They came out of a family movie night rather than a party plan, which is the right scale for them: hand one to each person at the door, use them as popcorn bag labels, or stick them on a jar of candy. The perforation shapes are printed on, so no ticket punch is needed. Personal use only, commercial by request.

Get the full tutorial at Stacey, Sweet Daisy Designs.

15. Nest Watercolor Printable

A hand painted nest holding three turquoise eggs, with the brushwork left visible and a loaded paintbrush lying across the corner of the page in the photograph. It is a spring print rather than an Easter one, which gives it a longer season on the wall. The maker also built the frame it sits in from four inch pine boards, mitred at 45 degrees with plywood glued on the back and finished with a rust activator kit, so there is a second project on the same page if a bought frame feels like a waste next to a free print.

Get the full tutorial at Finding Silver Pennies.

16. Printable Moroccan Tile Designed Labels

A quatrefoil tile pattern in eight colors, pink, teal, green, orange, navy, purple, lime and yellow, laid out across round labels, address labels and water bottle sized labels. They are editable PDFs, so the text is typed in before printing and the font, size and color can all be changed. The sheet shown is set up for sewing storage, fat quarters, bobbins, buttons and quilt batting, which is a good demonstration of the point: a bold repeating pattern is what makes a shelf of mismatched boxes read as one set.

Get the full tutorial at Erin Rippy of Inktree Press, for the WorldLabel blog.

17. Spring Bird Free Watercolor Printable

A small watercolor bird perched on a painted branch, on a white ground with plenty of space around it. The display idea is the best thing on the page: rather than framing it, the print is leaned behind a real bare twig stood in a pot, so the painted branch and the real one line up. That costs nothing and looks considered, and it suits a spring mantel or a shelf better than a frame does. A more conventional framed version is shown on the page too. Personal use only, no commercial use without permission.

Get the full tutorial at Craftberry Bush.

18. Tags For Handmade Items

Small rectangular tags reading “thank you for shopping handmade”, printed in a fine pattern with a hole punched in the corner for jute cord. These are aimed squarely at anyone selling at a craft fair or online rather than at gift givers, and the wording says so. Brown kraft card stock is the paper to use, because the natural finish matches the crocheted and knitted items they are tied to. A punched hole, a strand of jute and a small bow is the whole finishing step, and it is what makes a handmade item look like a product.

Get the full tutorial at Meg, Megmade with Love.

19. Floral Heart Free Printables

A heart built out of small painted flowers in green, aqua, plum, gold and pink, offered on two backgrounds, plain white or chalkboard black. The chalkboard version is the one worth printing, because dark backgrounds are what free printables almost never offer and what stops a wall of prints looking washed out. The maker recommends 8×10 on matte card stock or glossy photo paper rather than copy paper, and it is the right advice: a dense colored design on thin paper buckles and goes dull.

Get the full tutorial at Burlap and Blue.

20. Set of 6 Herb Printables

Six botanical herb prints, rosemary, basil, thyme, mint, lavender and dill, built from Graphics Fairy artwork and sized for ordinary 8.5 by 11 paper, which means no trimming and no odd frame sizes. The display is the lesson: all six in matching black floating frames, hung in a tight two by three grid behind a dining table. A grid is what makes six cheap prints look like one deliberate piece, and the black frames give the grid an edge that a mixed set never gets. Personal use only, not to be sold or used commercially.

Get the full tutorial at The Crafty Blog Stalker, formerly published at Cherished Bliss.

21. Pillow Spray Printable

A label reading GOOD NIGHT PILLOW SPRAY in a black bordered apothecary frame with a moon and stars, on a small cobalt glass bottle against white bedding. The recipe underneath is an essential oil sleep spray, and the reason it needs a label at all is that a blue bottle of clear liquid on a nightstand is indistinguishable from every other blue bottle of clear liquid in the house. Cobalt and amber glass protect the oils from light, so the color is functional as well as good looking. The same spray is used for children and, apparently, dogs.

Get the full tutorial at Kelly, Primally Inspired.

22. Free Printable Top Tab Dividers

Nine tab dividers plus three full page patterns to print on the reverse, so the front and the back never need lining up, which is the fiddly part of every other divider set. They measure 184 by 71 millimetres with the tab and 170 by 71 without, and the tabs can be cut off entirely to leave plain bookmarks. Three of them are labelled today, this week and this month, which is the genuinely useful trio, and the rest are patterns plus two quotes and a Bible verse. They fit A5, personal and 5.5 by 8.5 planners and spiral ring binders.

Get the full tutorial at Clementine Creative.

23. Free Printable Journaling Cards

Three by four inch cards with loose watercolor flowers in mint, purple and plum drifting in from the corners and the middle left blank to write on. Three by four is a standard pocket page size, which is why this is a scrapbooking and Bible journaling staple rather than a decorative sheet. They come as both a JPEG and a PDF, so the PDF prints at the right size without any scaling argument with the printer. Print on matte card, cut on the lines, and a page of pockets fills in an evening.

Get the full tutorial at Free Pretty Things For You.

24. Free Affirmation Printable

Three cards to a sheet, each one a short affirmation set inside a painted floral wreath in coral, peach and sage. Small is the right format for these: a full 8×10 hanging on a wall gets ignored within a week, and a card propped on a mirror, a desk or a car dashboard gets read. There are ten lines in the set, so a sheet can be cut up and spread around a house rather than framed as one piece. Print on card stock so they stand up on their own without a frame.

Get the full tutorial at Mae, Printables and Inspirations.

25. Star Wars Bookmark Free Printable

Five bookmarks, each with a small illustrated character and a reading line: Darth Vader in front of the Death Star, Leia, Chewbacca, Luke and the two droids. The jokes are the reason they work on a child who has decided reading is boring, because the bookmark is not really about reading, it is about the character. Print all five on card stock, laminate them or cover them with clear tape, and punch a hole for a tassel if you want them to survive a school bag. One download, five children, no arguments.

Get the full tutorial at Our Handcrafted Life, formerly Wit and Wander.