Thursday's Border Punch and Decorative Scissors Projects

Erin used decorative edge scissors to trim the edges of the layered heart shapes she cut using her Cricut. She also used a Martha Stewart edge punch and distress ink to create the border on the green paper.

Karen used one of her border punches for the piece of matting. She stamped the flower image, as well as the Thank you sentiment. The butterfly is from a Creative Memories punch and she accented it with small pearls for the body. It is adhered with a pop dot to help make it stand out off the page.

Pia used an old pair of Decorative Scissors that she found in her dear son´s scrapbook stash! She cut the edges of the photos with it and the photos almost looks like postal stamps.

For this layout based on a sketch by Jana Eubank, Lisa used a pair of old "ripple" decorative Fiskar scissors to cut around her circle and then two border punches by Stampin' Up to frame her pictures.

Wanting to go a little simpler this week, Pam choose a black and white theme to showcase this week’s challenge item: Border Punches. She used one of her FAVORITE borders, EK Success Scalloped Edger Punch, to create the detailing behind the sentiment. This strong graphic element helps to ground and balance all of the white on this card and provides a space for a little bling.

Tanya took out her very dusty "Castle" decorative edged scissors and used them to make the fancy edge along the outside of her blue design paper. She also used them to create an edged band where the button is instead of using ribbon, and a scalloped looking border on the base of the burgundy cardstock.

Wednesday's Border Punch and Decorative Scissors Projects

Kerri used her "Victorian" style decorative edge scissors to create the photo corners. She also used her MS Double Loop border/corner punch combo set to create the edging on the background paper. Then for some fun, she cut 5 strips of 1 1/2 inch x 7inch paper and used her double loop border punch down each side. She folded the strips in half and added some ribbon and buttons to create the large flower.

Jessica used the trimmed edge of a sheet of die cut My Mind's Eye paper to accent her scalloped border and deckle scissor accent on the manilla tag.

Sasya used the Martha Stewart border punch, she punched the top and bottom of the card.

Beth pulled out one of her Fiskars border punches to dress up this card and used the Gypsy with the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge to cut and layer three scallop borders for this retro-feel Thank You card.

Tuesday's Border Punches and Decorative Scissors

Christine used decorative scissors to cut strips of the patterned paper to use as a backdrop.
She used mutiple items from the July kit from Lucky Girl Crafts to create this layout.

Sara used a combination of small and large scalloped boarder punches to create her boarder, matting and bird house.

Lisa S used a border punch to add some subtle detail to her card.

Sue made the lollipop by cutting a 3 inch circle and then spiral cutting it with a scalloped edge scissors. She placed a pop dot behind the center to make it stand out and inked the edges in pink. For the stick, she rolled up a piece of scrap paper (white side out) and added some ribbon to the stick. Enjoy!

Robin used her decorative scissors by provo craft to create the 1/2 circle and the border strips at the bottom of the photos.

Sandra used various border punches from Stampin' Up to create this card. The cardstock is Bashful Blue, and the borders were punched out of the same cardstock and then trimmed down to a smaller width. This card was inspired by a scrapbook page in last months Creating Keepsakes magazine.

Monday's Border Punches and Decorative Scissors

Kim cut a 1 X 12 strip of patterned paper then used a border punch down one side. She then cut a diagonal at the right end and folded the paper in at an angle until she had a round flower.

Deanne used an old pair of Provo Craft scissors to make all the scalloped borders on this simple card. She used "Cupcake," an image from this month's sponsor: Squigglefly.

Barb used a Martha Stewart border punch to create a framed mat for her photos. She also used a MS punch for the strips of papers under the photos. The flowers are from this months sponsor - Squigglefly! Barb used watercolor pencils to color the flowers and added a paper flower and gem stone to the center of each of the flowers.

Denise used a border punch along the top and bottom of her 5x7 picture. Then she added copper pearls inside the smaller holes in the bottom border punch.