Planners are always oooooo-ing and ahhhhhh-ing over my photos that I use for my blog posts, social media updates + Pinterest. Today, I’m opening the vault that holds my secrets on where I grab the files.

1. SC Stockshop is one of the stock photo shops I use. If you want to pretty up your website, blog, or Instagram feed, check them out. You can search photos by different features including colors, so you can stay on BRAND.
2. Haute Chocolate: Haute Chocolate is another great option for styled stock photos. This is a membership program, so you can’t just buy one photo here and there. Instead, you sign up at the level you choose and receive styled stock photos in your inbox.
3. PicJumbo: Great stock photos are so hard to find! I RARELY pay for photos, but want them to look great as part of my blog posts or my teaser banners, or whatever! PicJumbo is a great resource, with fab photos, and it’s free. Register on the site and they deliver FREE and FAB stock photos to you on a pretty regular basis. Sock away those emails and when you need one for something, start looking at the pics you have on hand. Download the ones you need, when you need them.
4. MorgueFile: This is another FREE source that I use. The drawback is that some of the photos are obviously amateur photos. The positive is that you can search for the pics you need by subject, so it offers more options than PicJumbo in pinpointing exactly what you need.

If you’re ready to pretty up your website, Pinterest, or Instagram, check out these sites to help make your little piece of the Internet a little prettier than it was yesterday.