What Can You Make and Sell with Commercial-Use Clipart?

If you make things to sell, the words "commercial use" on a clipart bundle matter. They are the difference between artwork you can only use at home and artwork you can build products around. Here is what a commercial licence means in practice, using our own licence as the example.

What "commercial use" means

Every clipart bundle in our shop comes with a commercial licence for finished goods. A finished good is a new product in which the artwork is one part of your own design, and from which the original files cannot be pulled back out and reused.

Put simply: you can sell things you make with the clipart, but you cannot sell the clipart itself.

Things you can make and sell

Here are the kinds of products our licence allows:

• Printed cards and invitations, for Christmas, birthdays, baby showers and weddings.
• Stickers that you print and sell as a physical product.
• Mugs, apparel and other printed gifts.
• Packaging, gift tags and wrapping for your own products.
• Scrapbook pages and printed party decorations.
• Flattened printables, such as a PDF wall print or a planner page where the artwork cannot be separated from the page.
• Client work. A stationer can buy a bundle once and design invitations for many different couples.

You can also resize, recolour, crop and combine the artwork with your own elements, and use it in your shop listings, social media posts and adverts to promote what you have made.

Things you cannot do

The limits are all versions of the same rule: do not pass on the artwork in a form someone else could reuse.

• Do not resell, share or give away the original files, even lightly changed, and even as a freebie.
• Do not sell the artwork as clipart, PNG files, digital paper, sticker sheets, sublimation designs or editable templates.
• Do not use it in print-on-demand listings where the customer can download, edit or separate the design.
• Do not upload the files to stock libraries, template marketplaces or design platform libraries.
• Do not use the artwork in a logo or trademark.
• Do not use the files to train or prompt artificial-intelligence systems.

If you are ever unsure, the full licence sets it all out, and you are welcome to ask us before you buy.

Why file format matters

Our clipart comes as transparent PNG files at high resolution. Two things follow from that:

• Transparent backgrounds mean you can place an image on any colour or layer several images together without white boxes around them.
• High resolution means the artwork stays sharp when it is printed, including at larger sizes.

Each listing tells you how many images are in the bundle.

Five product ideas for the Christmas season

1. A set of Christmas cards. Pick a bundle with a strong theme, such as an Alpine village, and design six cards that belong together.
2. Gift tags. Small, quick to print and easy to sell in packs.
3. Personalised mugs. Combine one character with a name in your own lettering.
4. Advent or countdown prints. A flattened printable that customers print at home.
5. Table place cards for Christmas dinner, sold as a printed set.

Do you need to credit the artist?

No. Credit is not required on finished goods, although "Artwork by ChicTemplateByAmanda" is always appreciated.

Where to start

Browse the clipart bundles and choose a collection with enough variety to build a small range around: a few characters, some scenery and some smaller decorative pieces. That gives you everything you need for a matching set of products.