border fun…

Sorry I am posting so late today. Did lot’s of traveling & teaching this month and now the field trip month has begun at school.  So pardon me for my tardiness!

Well I received my brand new stamp set a few weeks ago and I am in LOVE!!!! It is called Border Lines. Can you say WOW WOW WOW!!!!

So since I am a scrapbooker I thought I would use this stamp set more in my scrapbooking. Here’s a few ways I plan on using it…

take the line border and stamp all along 2 edges of cardstock, you now have a perfect place for a title or journaling.

next border: stamp a line again, now hand cut random bumps along one side.

it will look like this when you’ve cut the whole line.

then get out a crop a dile  or hole puncher and punch random holes in the center of those bumps.

another border : very simple, just stampin opposite corners. this could work great for cards.

Now let’s make a larger border similar to the one we hand cut, but this time I am going to create it with the circle border stamp.

or do it on 2 sides.

let’s use this same stamp and play with it in cherry red, then instead of punching holes with the crop a dile, I stamped using the buttons out of the same set.

Let’s take a black marker and outline the buttons to make them pop.

then cut out the bumps, leaving a hint of white around the edge. Then take embroidery floss and “stitch” the buttons to make them look real. Then I took one of the borders I made before, I used and attached it to the top of my “cherry loops”

Did you like making these fun & funky borders??? All I know is that I am famous for drawing these all the time freehand, and wow, the time saved is HUGE!!!! Thanks Bettina for designing these fabulous borders. I think you have increased my productivity.

so then I decided to make a card using the same border stamps.

Then stamp a heart on white, mount it on red. I took one of the x border stamps and cut it out to make it look like ribbon. then I stapled the “ribbon” to the heart. I journaled silly sayings to create a background. raised the heart and voila, a lovey card!

want to try another little fun touch?? well Clear Scraps has created some fabulous acrylic shapes to play with, I took the circle stamp again and stamped around the “core” of the flower.

ink edges with Staz On ink to make the flower pop!

well, thanks for joining me on this fun border adventure!

Have a great night!

Leica

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