Initialed Title Page
Level: Easy
Brian Dorsey constructed and submitted this page. He found this elegant wallpaper border at a local store in the discount bin and thought it would work perfectly as the background for a title page in his family heritage album. The key design fundamentals that make this wallpaper border work are the linear elements — the lattice border and the smaller cream border that are located at the bottom of the border roll and the flowing scrollwork. These elements produce the multi-frame effects without having to perfectly match the angled corners.
*Warning note: Adhesives used in the wallpaper industry may not be acid free. Use caution if placing important photos in contact with materials that are not labeled acid and/or lignin free.
Materials:
5 1/2" wallpaper border roll — you will need a total of 4 feet for 12 x 12 page
Small piece cream cardstock paper
Computer and printer (doesn't have to be color printer)
Photo adhesive
Scissors/paper trimmer
Corner rounder
Journaling pens
Step 1:
Cut a length of border for the length of each side of the page, depending on what size album you are making, this would change accordingly. Lay each of the piece of the border out in front of you, making sure they are all lined up in the same direction. Cut a 45-degree angle off one corner of each one, but make sure it is the same end corner for each length. For example, laying them out in front of you, you want to cut the right end of each length.
Step 2:
Take the first length of border and using the photo adhesive, adhere along one edge of the page, leaving the cut corner free to allow the last piece to be placed under at the end. Continue mounting the border lengths along each edge in order, keeping all the cut corners mounted on top of the uncut end of the previously mounted piece.
Step 3:
You now want to adhere the cut corner from the first piece of border length on top of the uncut corner of the fourth piece. When all the border lengths have been mounted to the page, you will have a continuation of all the elements of the wallpaper border.
Step 4:
If you have access to a home computer and printer this step will be simple picking a font you like and printing a single monogram letter onto the cream cardstock. If you do not have a home computer and/or the printer to do this, then do your own using different journaling pens. Try different looks and/or colors, and then pick what you like best. Either way you decide to do the monogram, the finished cardstock letter needs to be approximately two inches square. Use the corner rounder to round off each corner and then mount to the center of the page on top of the center edges of the border pieces.
