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The truth is that times are tough for everybody these days. Security of the home and family matters really should be a primary concern for anybody, especially for people who have children. With something as simple as baby footprint clipart, security can even be provided for the children. Additionally, family fun and entertainment can be had by families working together to create custom clip art using the baby’s footprint as the basis for that clipart work. When you are done, you will have truly unique, custom-made and totally free clip art – one that you’ll be proud of and admired by others.

Creating a Handy Rainbow Flower Clip Art
Some of the most popular forms of clipart created with these family imprint images are flowers. If you have created say some ‘handy’ clipart images already, then with six or seven cropped and reduced copies of a handprint placed in the shape of a circle, the graphic now becomes a clip art of a flower. If you had changed the color of each of those petal handprints, you would then have a rainbow flower clip art. Alternately, you can use a simple program like Paint in Windows. Just select the spray tin and paint a graffiti-like a hand, foot, smily face, match-stick man or anything.

Using Graphics and Clip Art for Learning Steps
Small, printed copies of the baby’s footprint can also be used throughout the home in order to create virtual foot paths for the baby to follow. Different colored footprints may lead to different areas of the home. These are not only helpful to the child but can also be an invaluable tool for teaching and education as well. Color differentiation, directions, left and right and many other things that the child must learn to comprehend can all be taught using the baby’s very own feet to guide the child along the way. At an older age, or perhaps for a sibling, it could be the guiding of a treasure trail. Later at your children’s party, they could form part of the fun - for different guests or teams at a children’s treasure hunt party.

If you want to add even more pizzazz to your efforts, try creating extra features with the addition of animal clip art or other such add-ons to your clipart works. The ‘Footprints in the Sand’ is a very popular work within the world of fine arts and has also become popular in its niche of clip art. This “masterpiece” can be recreated using the baby’s actual footprints in the finished artwork.

Mastering Simple Skills
When the subject is considered objectively, the artwork, the security, the teaching tools and many other factors combine to make creating your own baby’s footprint clipart to be something that you should not only consider, but actively pursue. Once you’ve learnt the few tricks involved, it’s a skill you can apply to a variety of future events be they business or at home – your grown up children’s shower party invites, christening invitations – and soon it’ll be for grandchildren’s parties!

Creating your own baby footprint clipart is not something that many people first consider when discussing computer graphics or clip art. Free baby clipart is actually something that can be beneficial to people on many different levels. Baby clipart is a very popular subject online. Whether the baby clip art is being sold online or given away on free clipart websites, the fun in making as well as the benefits go well beyond money or art.

To create a genuine work of art using your baby’s footprint, some tools will be necessary. Paper, ink, a small paper plate, a scanner and a good graphics software program should all be readily available. Printer Ink can be used if you buy it in bulk and for this purpose, the paper plate should be used. If the baby’s foot is small enough, some ink pads may be available that are large enough to accommodate the baby’s foot. There are the popular imprint kits available if you need to simplify this step. Graphics programs like Picasa created by Google for Windows-based computer systems, and the more comprehensive GIMP (for both Linux and Windows based programs) are both free and have a very low learning curve. More advanced graphics programs are also readily available for a reasonable price – so you don’t have to hand over hundreds of dollars for the Adobe Photoshop – excellent though it is.

Paper to Foot
When the baby’s foot (or feet - also hand depending on the preferences of the person creating the imprint clipart) is inked up, probably the most practical next step is to bring the paper to the foot. You can carefully smooth out – almost gently stretch the foot and apply some degree of firm pressure to ensure a more thorough image without missing the foot arch and other hollows.

OR Foot to Paper?
The family fun way and more suitable for older infants is: the child should be helped to step on and walk across the paper (though numerous sheets of paper together may be advisable depending on the baby in question) and there should now be a complete selection of baby footprints to choose from. The creator then only need allow their mind to wander some, as if staring off into the clouds to see what their imagination may see. Just remember that if you drift off too long, you’ll likely find a lot of extra inky prints in places you weren’t wanting! So keep the camera or video to hand to snap and scoop up any extras!

Once the ink has had sufficient time to dry, place the paper containing the baby’s footprint onto the scanner and scan a copy. The graphics program can then be used to manipulate the picture, cropping, cutting and pasting as may be necessary for the free clip art that is to be created. The baby foot print clip art can then be manipulated so as to fit many different categories of clipart. In addition to all of this, a viable and legal record of the baby’s footprint is now in existence should anything untold ever happen to the child.