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Monday, July 11, 2011

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"):

2 comments:

Karenliz Henderson said...: I do the same thing. I never have the ribbon I need to I print it out. It's a great idea!; July 11, 2011 at 6:05 AM
pennyd said...: I'm with you and KarenLiz - I do the same thing as well. I'm really enjoying looking at your pages as you post them - it had to have been a wonderful trip!; July 11, 2011 at 7:28 AM