How to Make Cave Borders for Scrapbook Pages

A scrapbook layout border decorates the page.

Give a cave scrapbook layout a "pop" with decorative borders that reflect the cave theme. The border may separate the page in half, surround a series of photos or outline the side and top of a layout. The cave layout may be a memory page about building and decorating a "man cave." Cave-themed layouts can reflect a spelunking expedition, vacation tour or caving hobby. A cave-themed birthday or costume party scrapbook layout can be decorated with an artistic or graphic border.

Things You'll Need

• Scrapbooking paper
• Ruler or straight edge
• Colored scrapbooking chalk, pencils and/or pens
• Cave-themed stickers
• Rubber stamps
• Ink
• Adhesive
• Paper punch tools

Instructions

Hand-Drawn Border

1. Place a straight edge or ruler against the paper for a guide.

2. Draw the outline of a cave, stalactites or other cave-related items across or down the layout.

3. Color in the design with scrapbooking chalk, pencils or pens. Add highlights with a light-colored ink to give dimension to the drawings.

Hand-pieced Sticker Border

1. Place a ruler on the layout or piece of scrapbooking paper. Mark the border line with a pencil for a sticker placement guide.

2. Choose miniature bats, letters, caving tools or figures that are reminiscent of hieroglyphics to place on the border. Letters can be used to spell out the name of a cave or spelunking group as a border.

3. Peel the letters from their protective packaging. Place directly onto the border layout or onto a small piece of paper to be adhered to the page.

Rubber-Stamped Border

1. Choose images that match the cave theme. Design a "man cave" border with rubber-stamp images of a television set, exercise equipment, pool table and sports gear.

2. Select pieces of scrapbook paper to hand-stamp images on for a border piece. Stamp the images on the border paper.

3. Color in the inked images with pens or pencils. Shade and highlight the images for a more dimensional design.

4. Adhere the border to the scrapbook layout.

Paper-Punched Border

1. Choose paper-punch shapes for the cave border for the scrapbook page. Punch images of clay pottery, bats, spelunking tools, and birds as well as letters from scraps of scrapbooking paper.

2. Arrange the punched-out images onto a thin rectangular piece of scrapbooking paper until the desired effect is achieved.

3. Adhere the paper punchies to the border paper. Let dry thoroughly. Use chalk, pens and colored pencils to add shading and highlights to the shapes.

Tips & Warnings

• It works best to make a detailed border on a separate piece of scrapbboking paper to adhere to the main layout.

References

• Love to Know: Scrapbooking: Borders
• Stickers N' Fun: Scrapbooking Borders

Resources

• Choubox Scrapbook Design: Creative Scrapbook Layouts....Made Easy
• Scrap Wow: Free Scrapbooking Layouts for Perfect Scrapbook Pages
• DebraClark Punchart: Punch Art Fun