Are you still stuck using Microsoft Word clip art for your next big Children’s Ministry event? Or are you really doing it the old school way by taping pictures from those 1980′s clip art catalogs? Well toss your clip art out the door and start using quality graphics from Stock.xchng. Everything on their site is high quality and absolutely free. You do have to set up a free account with them in order to download the graphics. They have mostly picture images, but are growing in their number of digital graphics as well. Here is what the website allows you to use images for:

All Images on the Website are copyrighted and they are the properties of SXC or its Image providers. All rights are reserved unless otherwise granted to You. Your rights to use the Image are subject to this agreement and the restrictions specified at each Image.

We hereby grant to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Image on the terms and conditions explained in this Agreement and on the Image preview page FREE OF CHARGE.

You may use the Image

• In digital format on websites, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and video, cell phones.
• In printed promotional materials, magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, CD/DVD covers, etc.
• Along with your corporate identity on business cards, letterhead, etc.
• To decorate your home, your office or any public place.

Here are a few logos/posters I have done using background images from this site. Click on the image if you would like to see the whole thing.

I did these in either Publisher or Inkscape