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Anna Griffin always has beautiful border products that can be stacked to create custom designs with lots of depth and dimension. This ticket style border has rectangles with squared off edges that look like tickets with smaller pieces layered on top and butterflies in between. Take a closer look at the Anna Griffin blog.

From the very beginning of scrapbooking borders have been a classic principle of design. Borders are usually long thin sections on the page and can be used to separate a layout into halves, or a way to fill in space at the top, bottom or sides of the page and they always add a decorative touch. Borders are a good go to when you’re stuck for something to include on a design. You can create borders from so many things that we already use in scrapbooking from punches to stamps, to embellishments and die cuts, just about anything can be turned into a border, let your imagination run wild! Today we’ll take a look at some layouts with unique borders to help spark your creativity.

Creative Memories is known for their border making products like this wavy edge from the Border Cutting Tool that Krislyn used to create wonderful waves for a sailing layout. There’s light tan at the bottom for sand and sailboat pattern paper for the background. Find direction at the Creative Memories blog.

Creating rows of borders can create a fabulously fun backdrop like Tonya did on her crafty friends page. Notice how each border is a single color and she used only products that contain that color on the borders, it’s a fun idea to dig through your stash and color match. Find more info at the Doodlebug blog.

Evanjelene’s border is absolutely stunning! This woodland fairy tale is created with lots of embellishments and some fussy cut images from pattern papers, she also tucked in some sentiments, tags and labels too. I came across her idea at the 49th and Market Instagram page.

Jessica took pattern paper that had lines printed to represent mountains and a sun and took it up a notch by adding hand stitching. She used the same color of embroidery floss as each strip for a seamless look that adds even more color and lots of texture. I spotted her idea on the Hip Kit Club Instagram page.

Meghann’s delicious strawberry layout has rows of coordinating pattern paper strips for the background but she created a unique border edge using printed die cut embellishments from the same collection which give a fun movement to the side of the design. Watch her process video and find the inspirational sketch over at the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog.

If you’re including “traditional” top and bottom borders add something extra like Debbi did here. Both borders use striped pattern paper and have white sewing on them but the top also has a torn edge and small black scalloped border peeking out from underneath, which all adds nice texture. I came across her page at the Bramble Fox Instagram page.

Sophie created smaller rows of borders, stacking and over lapping them to fill in the section next to the photo on this pretty page. I love how each one has a different edge and how some are longer than others, she also included some flowers and sentiments tucked in, all of these things add extra interest. Find all the details at the Paige Taylor Evans blog.

This Summer fun layout has two sections of borders made from different widths of paper papers. They were layered and stagger over each other, the simple fish tale cut on the end of each strip makes it more special and is super simple to do. Take a closer peek at the Echo Park Paper Instagram page.

Karyn’s colorful rainbow borders are strips of pattern papers where each end has been punched with a border punch of dragon flies. She then took those bugs and had them fluttering away off the top for a design that has so much color and movement! Take a closer look at Creative Life Scrapbooking.

This darling baby layout from Jessica has a wide side border of pattern paper and lots of darling baby embellishments down the length of the edge in colors of tan and light blues. She tucked in the photo and title for a sweet and balanced design. I spotted her idea at A Cherry on Top blog.

Rona’s colorful layout is filled with lots of borders on the top and bottom of the photo and along the left side as well. She used straight, scalloped, torn and zig zag edges, stacking and staggering them all for a very dynamic design. Check it out at the Pretty Little Studio Instagram page.

I hope you’ve gotten some inspiration today to step up your border game and create some unique designs for your next layout.

-Heather

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