layout by Shimelle Click image to enlarge Designer: Shimelle Laine Shimelle Laine has been scrapping long enough that she has officially decided to stop counting the years. She lives in London, England and works on the UK's best selling scrapbooking magazine, Scrapbook Inspirations. She teaches workshops both in person and online, including Journal your Christmas, a project that has helped thousands of scrappers reclaim their sanity and their creativity at the busiest time of the year. She is also a Garden Girl at twopeasinabucket.com. Difficulty rating
Instructions (Print version) Trim photos to fit the openings in the acetate negative frame. Adhere the frame and photos to a strip of cardstock (it won't show so the colour doesn't matter). Cut a strip of contact paper to the width of your page. Do a test punch on a scrap piece to make sure your border punch is sharp enough (and not too intricate) to go through both the plastic and the paper backing. If so, punch your border from the sticky-back plastic. Go slowly and remove the negative pieces after every individual punch -- this will help prevent a sticky mess of your favourite border punch!
Do not use your pinking edgers to cut fabric -- you only have to pick up a pair of pinking shears to realise these are very different tools who merely share a similar cutting design. Edgers are great for paper and shouldn't be used on fabric; pinking shears are great for fabric and shouldn't be used on paper or they will dull.
Use your negative strip frame to choose a spot for your fabric border on your page. Run a straight line of adhesive from one side of the page to the other. (The dots on the dotted Swiss cardock make the straight lines much easier than your average background paper.) Now create the no-sew ruffle by laying the fabric over the glue line and regularly folding the fabric back on itself.
If you've die cut something from a piece of cardstock, use the backing paper as an inking stencil. If you want to overlap the design but not cover everything you've added, just mask it off with a piece of plain paper or paper towel. Then apply ink with sponge or foam through the stencil, working in from the outside edge. And a finish project -- a ruffled fabric border without ever needing to learn how to do a gathering stitch!
Supplies: If you've die cut something from a piece of cardstock, use the backing paper as an inking stencil. If you want to overlap the design but not cover everything you've added, just mask it off with a piece of plain paper or paper towel. Then apply ink with sponge or foam through the stencil, working in from the outside edge. |
