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Border Ideas
Ideas for decorating borders, corners and pages with rulers, templates, and pens (and sometimes coloured pencils)

Also see the two Braid, Twisted Borders and Rickrack Ideas albums for other ideas
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chris bush, Tue, 14 Nov 2006 5:11AM
great ideas
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therese, Mon, 27 Feb 2006 2:54PM
I hope we will always have this site as a reference to complete our albums.Donna's work is fantastic.
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Sun diecut for the corner, and a border using  ablue rickrack strip and a couple of bow stickers and 3 triangles to make a 'yellow polka dot' bikini

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Sun diecut, blue rickrack strip and a couple of bow stickers and 3 triangles to make a 'yellow polka dot' bikini

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Turn a 12" strip and a 1.5" circle punch into a baseball bat and ball border - Instructions in the Handouts album

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Baseball Border - Rickrack lazy Z strips, circle punch baseballs and caps

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Christmas Cracker - 12" border uses layered green papers and Fiskar's Heart border punch for lace edge effects -- Instructions for making Christmas Crackers in the Handouts album

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Christmas Cracker - 12" border uses red and black solid and print papers and Fiskar's heart border punch for lace edge effect

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Christmas Cracker - 12" border uses solid and print evergreen papers Fiskar's Diamond border punch for lace edging effect

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Vellum cracker (12") on a black page - Fiskar's Diamond border punch edging, white pencil 'gather' lines

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'faux' feathers lined up as a border - Instructions fro creating vellum feathers in the Handouts album

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Wreath of 11 Marvy Extra Jumbo maple leaf (1") punches that were outined in bold round-tip gold pen (gold pen veins) layered over gold ring (1/4" wide, diameter=4"), placed over cranberry strip

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Trace flowers from a colouring book, colour with pens and coloured pencils and cut out.  
Twisted Wavy strip border


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Bamboo is an evergreen strip trimmed with scissors (can mark notches with Scallop ruler) - shade with green, black pens and marking pencil

Leaves (meadow) are cut with 12" Swell edge (reverse template or paper for second cut) and round off one end.  Vein lines are silver, white and green pens


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Swirl borders - DD did these free hand with the round tip metallic pens

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Cloud Border - simple border made from layering cloud shape  (2 pink, 4 rose) cut from a pink shortcut strip and rose cardstock using template - cloud edge

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Cloud Border #2 - cloud shapes in previous sample have been slightly separated and white pen highlights have been added.  
(This would look good in blue/grey clouds with a 'silver lining', or sunset coloured clouds with gold highlights)


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12" vertical 'Twined Vines'  border made with template in silver pen on black - Instructions in the Handouts album

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12" symmetrical 'Twined Vines' template border done in green and gold pen on olive - Instructions in the Handouts album
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Hard to see in a scan, but you can dry emboss the vine design on a border using the rounded tip of the cap of a metallic pen
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Dot-to-dot shape - - hexagons, snowflakes, chains etc.  Lightly pencil in a design and when you are happy, ink it (let dry and erase pencil lines)
See the Gingham/Dot-to-Dot album for more shapes and lettering ideas


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Orca (killer whale) and dolphin 12" borders - repeating borders drawn using decorative rulers and coloured with pens - Instructions in the Handouts album
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Escher-like fish 12" border drawn with decorative ruler and coloured with pens

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3-D 'Ocean Waves' - first row drawn with ruler upside down for larger crests - coloured with white, blue and silver pens
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Blue Snowflake border used Scallop ruler, Red Ribbon the Victorian ruler and Green ribbon border used Wavy.

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Border variations decorated with Scallop ruler and pens

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