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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

New Ideas for border stickers

I've been following along with the free monthly classes at 2 Peas in a Bucket. The class on the 10th of every month is Products you Love Every Which Way. This month she showcased border stickers. I have lots of these lying around in a pencil box (great way to store them by the way) that I had never done anything with. The designer had 3 great ideas to try:
1) Pick out several borders and stick them on some muted paper in randomly spaced horizontal lines across the paper. (I forgot to take a picture of this but I used about 4 different border stickers and then added pics. Not too fancy, but stickers used.

2) Decorate chipboard using layers of border slickers. This was a little more difficult than it looked and I didn't know if I was going to like the results. But I did 2 large letters and a flower.
I could have inked the edges before or after, but I left them raw. Also I did a scissor trim as I went and then exacto/finger blade trim afterwards (the hardest part) The instuctor suggested to use your widest borders 1st and not necessarily butted up to each other. So another words lay a few down then start filling in.


3)Make a frame around a picture by pleating the border stickers. I didn't want a full frame around this picture, so I elected to just have random length strands coming out of the side of the photo. This was fun and another way to get rid of those stickers that had been around forever. In fact I liked it so much I used it for the leaves on the flower too. I used a plain forest green cardstock for the base of these layouts so the sticker art would pop out.

These are some of the babies I have taught at Sunday School over the past 13 years+