Avoiding long and tedious work

Here's my problem...
I have a bunch of pictures like this --> http://www.fishbones.web1000.com/design.htm
and I want to extract the corner design for my future site. I do not intend to have the background on it, and I don't know what to do.

Well... I take that back, I know exactly what to do. Sit down for a couple hours with my pen tool. This obviously wouldn't be my first choice if I knew of anyother way to get the design out of pictures like that. Anyone out there have any suggestions of how to get through it faster?

Find another floral ornament.

Seriously.

Google free clipart sites; ornament fonts are a possibility as well.

Well... I take that back, I know exactly what to do. Sit down for a couple hours with my pen tool.

Well, I would say you came up with the best possible answer. There is nothing more rewarding than a bunch of hard work--well, nothing outside of consenting adults.

There is nothing more rewarding than a bunch of hard work

I tend to disagree :D

Hard work takes less time than complaining and getting flamed at for being a lazy bastard supah. :p

Bah. You guys will never know the joys of winning the lottery.

Lottery = tax on people who are bad at math!

I think we did a VERY nice job of hi-jacking this thread!

Indeed you did :P

I gave up on finding a pattern like that on the web. All I found were corny wedding flowers, no actual 'design'. I decided that I'm going to make my own design (hah, if I can :confused. Man, my site is going at the rate of a blizzard game... yea, it'll be out uhh first quarter of 2004? :/

Duke Nukem Forever.

What a little Googlin' can do:

http://www.dingbats-uk.org.uk/mvdl/dinglinks2.html#page2http://www.dingbats-uk.org.uk/mvdl/dinglinks2.html#page2
http://www.houseoflime.com/dings.htm
Go Nuts!