Scrap Skills: Using Borders

Hello, digital scrapbook loving friends! Our subject today is borders, and it is my hope that you will be inspired to use borders in a way that maybe you hadn’t thought about before reading this post. Borders on scrapbook pages are great for guiding the reader’s eye in the direction the creator wants or for separating photos. Take a look at the pages Roxana made. She has used Chelle’s Choo! Choo! kit to make two pages with borders on each, but the borders have slightly different uses. On the first page, the border forms the bottom of her page and gave her a place for the title of her page. On the next page, her border separates the small photos from the large photo and helps the eye travel down the small photos first before moving to the large one. I love how she has accented her paper borders with small clusters of elements from the kit, and the title of her second page is perfect! Looks like someone has seen the Superman movies, right?

Jenn used a border on her page, but she made it from elements in the kit instead of paper. She used Chelle’s Berry Berry Blue kit and the matching alpha for her page. Her border is made from a ribbon as the main piece, and it is accented with other elements in the kit. I love that blueberry muffin tucked behind a flower, and I like that she attached a word art piece to the other end to balance it visually. The whole border makes a great anchor for her page about her daughter making a delicious treat. This page is seriously making me hungry, it is so yummy!

Finally, Wanda has a great example of using a border as its own decoration on the page. She used Chelle’s Play the Game and In the Pocket {strips} . She likes to make pocket-style pages with stuff in the pockets as well as on top of the pockets. Since she is digitally making pages, this works out easily! She used one of the Play the Game Quickies as a decorative accent inside the pocket on the lower left, and then she added another of the quickies as the border across the middle of her page making the perfect spot for her title. And, now I’m starving because she also has yummy treats on her page!

I hope you are inspired to scrapbook like I am after viewing the team’s creative use of borders. I think I’ll help myself to a snack and use some of their great ideas. Why don’t you?