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The Creative Edge |
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Scrapbooks and Memories Home |
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Border Ideas |
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~ Use strips of patterned paper against a solid background for a quick and easy border.
~ Use journaling, quotes or poetry around the edges of the page. Not only is it a simple and quick border, but it tells about your page. You can add colorful dots, hearts, flowers or tiny stickers between sentences - whatever will work with your layout.
~ Stickers make fast and easy borders. Run them around the page, down one side, or on top of a strip of coordinating paper.
~ Give a strip of printed or solid paper a decorative edge. Not all borders have to be elaborate.
~ Punch borders: when making punches for pages, line them up evenly along the edges of a page. Then you can trim off the strip that was puched out and use it as a border! |
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Here are 2 examples of punch borders. In the first border, snowflakes were punched out evenly along the edge of a sheet of paper. It was then trimmed with decorative scissors and mounted on a strip of blue paper. The second border was made with snowflake punches adhered to a strip of the same blue cardstock as border one. ( These are an example of the above tip.) |
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These are some examples of borders using stickers. |
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I do 8 1/2 by 11 pages. Here's how to get 3 looks from one sheet of patterned paper (plus cardstock). I used a 12 by 12 sheet of patterned paper and trimmed it to 8 1/2 by 11. Page one. Using wide scalloped scissors, I cut a thin strip from the leftover scrap and another thin strip from coordinating solid to make a paper braid. Adhere to another sheet of coordinating cardstock for border. Page two. Using the leftovers pieces of patterned paper after cutting the chain piece (you'll have 2 scalloped edge pieces, one like hills, the other like valleys), adhere to coordinating cardstock for top and bottom borders. Page three. You'll have to trim the overhanging edges of the borders. |
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Page 2 border; paper braid. (I actually did this across the top of the page, but I scanned it upside down.) |
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Page 3 border; scallop borders. |
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