Mulberry Paper can make a beautiful and elegant addition to your scrapbooking pages. It's soft textured appearance makes it an appropriate selection for a wide variety of themes including weddings, babies, spring and much more. Tearing the edges further soften the effect and can turn a good page into a fantastic page.

The materials used in this layout are It Takes Two Purple Fibre paper, purple cardstock, white mulberry paper, silver alphabet tiles and Suzy's Zoo Wedding Bears stickers.

Sometimes you find an embellishment you just have to have, even if you don't know what to do with it. This is what happened with this page. I started with the Suzy's Zoo Wedding Bears stickers and then chose a photo from our wedding to match. The stickers use soft colours so I turned to mulberry paper and soft purples to continue this theme throughout my layout.

To recreate this layout, begin by matting your photo on light purple cardstock. Next, matt your photo on white mulberry paper. Make sure there is excess paper all the way around as you are going to tear the edges so create a soft feel to your page.

Tearing the edges of mulberry papers is quite easy, once you know the secret. Dab the area where you want to tear with a few drops of water. As the water is absorbed, the paper becomes soft. When this happens gently pull the paper apart. This will create a neat tear in the wet area. Be careful though - only wet the areas you want to tear.  

While your photo mat dries (it doesn't take long), move on to your border. Again, this is quite easy. Cut a strip about 2cm wide of purple cardstock. Make sure it is long enough to stretch all the way down your page. Matt it on your mulberry paper. Use your mulberry paper tearing technique again to create white edges for your border.

Now it is time to create your name plaque. Cut an oval from your purple cardstock and mat it on your mulberry paper. Again, you want to tear the edges of your mulberry paper. It is a little more complicated this time as the shape is rounded. However, if you work slowly and only wet a little bit at a time, you should have no trouble tearing the edge. Use the edge of your cardstock as a guide, but be careful not to get it wet.

Now you have all your elements, you are ready to put your page together. Begin by adhering your border. Keep in mind the placement of your wedding bears sticker when positioning it. When your border is in place, stick the wedding bear on top. 

Mulberry paper is a versatile medium that can be used to enhance your scrapbooking and cardmaking projects. It's so easy to work with that a scrapper of any level can use it effectively, so why not give it a go!

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