Make Your Own - Glossy Paper

Where there's a will, there's a way! For this layout, I printed the photos with black borders and white titles, the journaling with black print and a black border, the black title with white matting.  This went well with my background paper and kept me from having to mat the photos.  (The strips of photos are pieced in the middle, but you can't tell that because of the way I cut the join.)  Anyway, after getting everything printed and cut out, I realized that I wanted thin black borders to set things off nicely.  But since the mats on the pictures had been printed on glossy photo paper, none of my black cardstock looked right with them.  So I just printed a plain black piece of glossy photo paper and sliced it with my paper trimmer to give me all the thin strips I used to finish off these pages. Hint: You'll notice that though it looks like lots of 12 x 12 strips of black paper, they all go behind a photo or something -- thus making it easy to piece from an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of photo paper!