Hi! Diana here with a tutorial I hope you'll enjoy. I hope you give it a try. It's fun! You can use brights, pastels, and even patterned papers. The possibilities are endless.
1. Choose three contrasting card stock colors.
2. Cut 1/2 inch strip from each card stock color.
3. Glue the three strips to a light weight base such as printer paper.
4.Cut the excess base paper from the edges of your tri-color strip.
5. Cut a pile of 1/2 inch pieces from the tri-colored strip.
6.Lay your pieces out in the pattern shown above.
Then glue them down to a sheet of light weight base paper.
7. Using a ruler draw very precise lines down each side edge of the middle block.
8. Cut very precisely down the line you drew in step 7.
Both excess edges should be trimmed off.
(the trimmed off sections also make a nice border .)
9. Now trim your new border strip to size, matte it if you'd like...
This tutorial can be downloaded for free at the Red Rubber Designs store!
Love the new Tutorial Tuesdays! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAs a quilter, I especially love this border. What a wonderful way to use up those scrap strips. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThat is cleverly done and very pretty, Diana. It is sort of like quilting with paper, isn't it? Neat technique. You did a great tutorial.
ReplyDeleteWell, that looks easy enough that even I could do it! Thanks for a great tutorial, Diana!
ReplyDeleteThanks girls! ;D
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Diana! I have never seen this before...very interesting. I am going to have to try this. I am learning all sorts of things on these tutorials.
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This is fantastic, Diana!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial Diana! This is a great way to use up scrap strips of cardstock.
ReplyDeleteTerrific tutorial, Diana! Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome tutorial....thank you for the invite....
ReplyDeleteThank you. Many years ago I HAD DONE THIS DESIGN ON TOWELS. But I needed a refresher and am excited about using in my scrapbooking.
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