Clustered Borders
Lots of designers make clustered page borders to go with their kits and they look stunning put on the edge of a page - which is what they're designed for. You can have lots of fun using these in even more creative ways. Here are just a few examples.
NOTE: Several of these pages use a vertical border horizontally, which is always worth trying. If it happens to have an element that needs to be vertical you can always disguise it with another embellishment.
NOTE: Several of these pages use a vertical border horizontally, which is always worth trying. If it happens to have an element that needs to be vertical you can always disguise it with another embellishment.
Use a border in the middle of the page
I wanted to use these poor quality photos (from 1981) but needed something striking for the page so I used this border in the middle then added round photos to pick up the circle theme. Border is from Connie Prince's "My Happy Place". Word art is from her "A Magical Place" kit.
In this one I put two borders together in the middle, then put the photo on top of them. So I made a giant mat of the borders - sort of! You can't see the join because the edge of the border is a plain colour. If you do this you need to make sure the shadow on the top one is moved upwards otherwise you will see the join!
Borders are from Lindsay Jane's Water Fun. The photo is my Dad and husband, John, walking across the causeway from Burgh Island to Bigbury on Sea. It's part of an album which you can see here: Slideshow ~ Gallery.
Borders are from Lindsay Jane's Water Fun. The photo is my Dad and husband, John, walking across the causeway from Burgh Island to Bigbury on Sea. It's part of an album which you can see here: Slideshow ~ Gallery.
Use two borders to frame a photo
This photo has a lot of meaning for me. It's the view of Burgh Island from the mainland. My ancestors lived in the village just two miles from where I was standing taking the photo. They would have seen this island all the time. I'll add that as journalling when I make a version for the family history album. It's a pretty poor photo but I wanted to use it in the album. The borders, which are meant to be vertical borders, make all the difference. Borders are from Linsday Jane's Water Fun again.
I love this old photo of my Dad but was taken at an angle and in order to use it straight in a page I had to put something on the corners. I used two borders from Just So Scrappy's Family Memories plus extra elements. So this is an example of framing a photo AND disguising problems.
Use a border to disguise a problem photo
Who wouldn't love a photo of their Mum and Dad at Disney World?!
The bottom left of the photo was very bare so I disguised it twice - one with a photo on top of a reduced opacity background and once with the border (from Connie Prince's My Happy Place. Then I got carried away and added other bits. The giant Minnie is from Mouse House by Dreams Fulfilled.
The bottom left of the photo was very bare so I disguised it twice - one with a photo on top of a reduced opacity background and once with the border (from Connie Prince's My Happy Place. Then I got carried away and added other bits. The giant Minnie is from Mouse House by Dreams Fulfilled.
Use several borders on a page
This is easy and gives the effects of "real" photos tucked into "real" paper. Some borders are very large elements, especially if they have swirly bits and glitter extending from the border, so you might need to move them to one side while you're arranging photos. Don't forget to move your shadows upwards if you have borders at the bottom of the page.
Some photos of my garden. Borders and other elements from Lindsay Jane's Field Flowers.
Some photos of my garden. Borders and other elements from Lindsay Jane's Field Flowers.
A day out at Lymington, Hampshire. Borders and elements from Lindsay Jane's Sea Breeze.
Use only part of a border
I'm not suggesting you actually cut up a border! Just move it so only part of it shows on the page.
This background of this page needed something so I added two of Lindsay Jane's Water Fun borders and moved them into the corners. The photos are Vounaki, Greece and are part of a big travel album.
This background of this page needed something so I added two of Lindsay Jane's Water Fun borders and moved them into the corners. The photos are Vounaki, Greece and are part of a big travel album.
Tuck special photos into a border
We went to south Devon in 1984 (six of us on our honeymoon - long story) and again in 1994. The two small photos show Mum, Dad and John walking across the Burgh Island causeway.
Both borders were designed to be vertical borders and the botton on had a bucket on it, which looked silly sideways. I just added the bucket embellie from the kit (Lindsay Jane's Water Fun) on top so it was the right way round. If you have something big to cover you could add a cluster of embellies on top.
Both borders were designed to be vertical borders and the botton on had a bucket on it, which looked silly sideways. I just added the bucket embellie from the kit (Lindsay Jane's Water Fun) on top so it was the right way round. If you have something big to cover you could add a cluster of embellies on top.
Use extra elements from the border in the page
This page is from my Christmas 2010 album. The borders already had hanging ornaments so I added extra to continue the theme across the page. Kits i Lindsay Jane's Christmas Day.
