Scrapbooking Borders

Scrapbooking borders used towards the bottom of your page grounds your page and gives it a sense of balance. I love using scrapbooking border stickers to create this effect, but sometimes its fun to create your own border. In the layout below, I have used some cardstock and some bright stickers to create an original border that's both easy and fun.

This layout was created using Provo Craft Blue Swirls paper, Doodlebug Seaglass Stripe paper, NRN Designs Summer Garden paper, Creative Imaginations Striped paper, white cardstock, bright blue cardstock, light green cardstock, blue ink and American Traditional Shiny Fish Swimming stickers.

To recreate this scrapbook page idea, follow these steps:

1. Cut a piece of Provo Craft Blue Swirls paper measuring approximately 29.5cm by 29.5cm. Ink the edges with blue ink and when dry, mat on a 12x12 sheet of bright blue cardstock to create your background.

2. Cut a piece of Doodlebug Seaglass Stripe paper measuring approximately 10.5cm by 19.5cm. Ink the edges with blue ink and when dry, glue vertically to your background approximately 4cm from the top edge and 2cm from the left edge.

3. Cut a piece of NRN Designs Summer Garden paper measuring approximately 22.5cm by 17.5cm. Ink the edges with blue ink and when dry, glue horizontally to your background approximately 8cm from the top edge and 2.3cm from the left edge. It will overlap your Seaglass Stripe paper.

4. Cut a piece of Creative Imaginations Striped paper measuring approximately 2.5cm by 13cm. Ink the edges with blue ink and when dry, glue vertically to your background approximately 11cm from the top edge and 4.5cm from the left edge. It will overlap both your Seaglass Stripe and Summer Garden papers.

5. Mat your photo with white cardstock and then again with light green cardstock. Glue within the Summer Garden paper approximately 9.5cm from the top of your page and 4.5cm from the right edge of your page.

6. Using the waves on your sheet of American Traditional Shiny Fish Swimming stickers as inspiration, cut a curvy piece of white cardstock (see layout above). I recommend drawing your curve before cutting it out. It does not have to be perfect. It just has to follow a wave-like shape. Use blue ink (or blue chalk if you prefer) to add some colour to the centre of your wave.

7. Mat your white wave with bright blue cardstock. Make sure you also cut it out in a wave-like shape too. Again, it does not have to be perfect. If you have trouble, remember to look at both the layout above and the waves on your sheet of American Traditional Shiny Fish Swimming stickers for an idea of the shape.

8. Glue your wave across the bottom of your page. The lowest point should be approximately 3cm from the bottom edge of your page. Make sure your wave covers the bottom edges of your Seaglass Stripe, Summer Garden and Creative Imaginations Striped papers.

9. Choose a selection of fish all swimming the same direction and place them on your wave, as shown in the layout above.

8. Finally, select two more fish stickers and place just above the top right corner of your photo, as shown in the layout above.

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