Free Magazines and Catalogs I Use for Collaging

I love collaging. This art form often involves spending a significant amount of time poring over multiple catalogs and magazines for the perfect imagery and verbiage. Most of us have piles of old magazines lying around, or at least have family or friends that are willing to donate theirs to our cause. 

But there are also those of us that don't have this luxury, or those of us with an extreme love of collaging that have exhausted most of their resources already or just want to expand their collection. This list covers multiple totally FREE catalogs and magazines that I subscribe to that provide me with a steady stream of collaging material throughout the year.

Also please try to support these companies while using their free catalogs! You can order from them, or at least give them a shout-out for providing the imagery for your art piece if you post your work on social media! A lot of work goes into these companies, and supporting them allows them to continue operating and offering free catalogs.

SEED CATALOGS (flowers, fruits, and veggies)

  1. Annie's Annuals and Perennials
    • Beautiful full-color photographs of all kinds of flowers. Nice fonts and words.
  2. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
    • Amazing and creative full-color pics of flowers, fruits, and veggies. Lots of quotes and good fonts. Many pages.
  3. Botanical Interests Seed Catalog
    • Medium and small full-color illustrations of flowers, fruits, and veggies.
  4. Park Seed
    • All sizes of full-color pics of all kinds of flowers and veggies.
  5. Prairie Nursery
    • All sizes of full-color pics of all kinds of flowers.
  6. Burpee
    • All sizes of full-color pics of all kinds of flowers, fruits, and veggies. Many pages.
  7. White Flower Farm
    • Medium and large full-color pics of all kinds of flowers.
  8. R.H. Shumway's Illustrated Garden Guide
    • Black & white newspaper-print style illustrations of vegetables. Vintage-inspired.
  9. Jung Seeds & Plants
    • Medium and small full-color pics of all kinds of fruits, veggies, and flowers.
  10. Seed Savers Exchange
    • All sizes of full-color pics of all kinds of fruits, veggies, and flowers. Many pages. Lots of good fonts.
  11. Totally Tomatoes
    • Medium and small full-color pics of all kinds of veggies.
  12. Pinetree Garden Seeds
    • Small full-color pics of fruits, veggies, and flowers. Pages have newspaper-like texture.
  13. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
    • Small full-color pics of fruits, veggies, and flowers. Pages have newspaper-like texture.
  14. Seeds 'n Such
    • Small full-color pics of fruits, veggies, and flowers.
  15. Prairie Road Organic Seed
    • Small full-color pics of mainly vegetables. Some flowers.
  16. Strictly Medicinal Seeds
    • Medium and small black and white simple sketches of flowers and herbs. Newspaper-like texture with small comics running along the bottom of each page. Lots of words for poets.
  17. Adaptive Seeds
    • A few good pics inside the front and back covers, otherwise it is text-only. Good for those who like to collage with words.

My list will be updated soon to include gift catalogs!

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