Zoo Animal Paper Piecing Scrapbook Page and Baby Shower Card Ideas

"A Day at the Zoo" uses paper piecing as the main embellishments on the page. The giraffe, lion, and elephant have all been paper pieced using free zoo animal paper piecing patterns available here on About.com Scrapbooking. The best part about creating your own scrapbook page embellishments using paper piecing patterns is that they are almost free. Every piece of paper I used for this layout, excluding the one sheet of 12x12 background cardstock, was a scrap from a previous page. I hunted through my scrap paper bin to find every color paper that I needed to make each and every animal in the Zoo Animals Paper Piecing Patterns listing. The next best thing about making your own paper pieced embellishments is that you can customize them to go with your photos and your scrapbook page layouts. Change the colors or shades of papers used for these zoo animals and then they are perfect for baby pages. Click to the next image to see the elephant paper piecing used on a baby shower greeting card or invitation.