Make Your Own - Faux Printed Ribbon

One of the things that can be a challenge sometimes is finding the right ribbon to match a page.  Sometimes I choose to print my own.  Using my photo software, I started with a black background and typed up my journaling in tan letters.  Then I decided I wanted to have strips that looked like ribbon as border accents for my page.  I simply typed a few strips of repeated words - in this case the word "FLAX" is repeated across the length.  This page was made before I had my wide body printer, but if you look closely you will see that the focal photo overlaps the "border" in strategic places so I could piece my "faux ribbon" without the join showing. 

Don't have or don't know how to use your printer software?  No problem.  Just letter strips of cardstock by hand as I did for these heritage pages (in this case the repeated word is "Graduation"):