Playpen Baby Scrapbook Inspiration with Craft Sensations Papers

Spring is in the air and these bright and cheerful papers from Craft Sensations were just the tonic to chase away the winter blues! I’m using them to scrapbook some cute photos of my baby girl in her bouncy chair.

This is a super easy scrapbook project which is perfect for beginners. I’m show you exactly how I’ve made this layout so that you can copy my process and make your own easy scrapbook pages.

Designer Scrapbook Papers

I love the designer papers form Craft Sensations. There are loads and loads of different designs to choose from. I’m literally spoilt for choice. The quality is great, they don’t feel thin or flimsy but they are fantastically good value.

I get them from the Range and typically pay just £2.99 a pack. Even on a tight budget I can afford to have a whole stack to choose from.

I’m loving the fresh, bright colours in the Fresh Florals paper pack. They were a perfect match to my baby girls bouncy chair.

Matting Photos

Matting means to layer a photo or piece of paper onto top of a larger piece of paper to create a border. This helps to anchor the image onto your scrapbook page and makes it stand out form the background.

Follow these simple steps to mat your photos:

Pick a contrasting or complementary cardstock or patterned paper to form the base. Solid colours that pull a tone directly out of your photo work great. You can also try using a piece of patterned paper.

Choose the size of your mat. A quarter of an inch or 3mm is great for a small border. Play around with your papers until you get a border width that you like.

Playpen Baby Scrapbook Inspiration with Craft Sensations Papers

Measure your photo then add the size of border you want multiplied by 2. For example if your photo measures 4 x 6 inches and you want an eighth of an inch border you would cut your mat to measure 4.25 x 6.25 inches.

Use an acid free adhesive such as double sided tape to stick your photo onto the mat. Carefully align one corner of your photo with the corresponding corner of the mat before lowering the rest of the photo into place.

You can create a bolder effect by double matting. Place your photo on a mat with a narrow border then place this mat onto a larger mat with a wider border.

On this scrapbook page I have used a quarter of an inch mat and then mounted two photos onto the same larger mat. My large mat measures the width of my photos plus half an inch times 3, one half inch for each side of the photos with both photos sharing the centre half inch. The height of my large mat is the standard height of my photos plus half an inch times 2.

Take a look at this page for more ways to make your scrapbook papers and photos stand out.

Scrapbook Embellishments

I’ve embellished this scrapbook page with one of my favourite dies, Jewel Flowers and Flourishes from Spellbinders. I use this die set a lot because it includes some really useful elements. Flowers, flourishes and butterflies – what’s not to love!?

I like to make the sweet little butterflies pop with the addition of a few little pearls.

I’ve also used some ombre rainbow washi tape that I bought from the Range. It doesn’t seem to be availible anymore which is a shame as it’s a really useful variety of colours.

Spellbinders Jewel Flowers and Flourishes

Here’s lots more embellishment ideas for your scrapbook layouts.

Scrapbook Page Title

I’ve also used one of my favourite alpha dis for the page title, the Mid West Alphabet from XCut. The letters are big and bold, just right for this baby scrapbook page.

Usually I would have just cut a second letter P but the waste paper from the first cut looked fun so I decided to use that instead. I’m liking how it’s come out.

I’ve got lot’s more scrapbook title ideas for you to try.

How to Make Your Own Scrapbook Layouts

Follow these step by step instructions to recreate this scrapbook layout with your own photos.

Choose Your Photos and Memorabilia
Choose Your Papers
Choose Your Embellishments
Design Your Layout
Add a Title
Stick it All Together

For more in depth instructions take a look at my Scrapbooking Course for Beginners.

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Copy This Scrapbook Layout

Here’s a sketch of my scrapbook layout if you’d like to copy it.

Shop This Scrapbook Layout

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Pin It Now, Scrapbook It Later

I do hope you have enjoyed having a peak at my latest scrapbooking layout. Please feel free to use my scrapbook pages to inspire your own creations, pin it to your Scrapbooking Pinterest board so you can find it later.

Playpen Baby Scrapbook Inspiration with Craft Sensations Papers Pinterest Pin

A Little Bit About Me . . .

Hi there! Thank you so much for stopping by my little corner of the interweb. I’m Bridie.

I’ve been crafting since I was toddling around craft shows while my mum sold knitting yarn. She used to buy me a new craft kit to keep me busy. When I grew up I set up my own online craft shop and loved every minute of it. There’s is nothing like the thrill of getting to be one of the first people to see new craft collections. I sold my business to focus on raising my two children.

They’re still young so for now I’m blogging my scrapbooking layouts and sharing tutorials to inspire you. I love scrapbooking to preserve precious memories of my kids childhoods. But scrapbooking can be such an expensive hobby! I hope that I can teach you how to scrapbook on a budget, even how to make scrapbook layouts for Free.

I’ll show you all the best ways to craft on a tight budget so you can still create a life you love.

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