Border Mayhem

Getting started.

Some things are better in theory. One of those things just happened to be creating cheap and dimensional borders. I saw a wonderful idea on Pintrest. It was a cute scrunchy border. The border was made with paper. I thought, "I can do that." I wouldn't even have to spend any money. Problem was that my school didn't have the color of paper that I wanted. Well, that's okay. I saw some plastic table cloths at Walmart that should work just as well. The table cloths come in packs of two for a mere $0.97. I bought a couple pink ones for a background and some bright green to use as a border. To make the borders, I removed the table cloths, but didn't unfold them. I straightened the edges the best that I could. I took a box knife and cut through all of the layers. I didn't measure. I just cut strips that were about 2" wide lengthwise. (The wider you cut the strips, the fluffier the border.) It doesn't really matter if they are straight or not. I can get about five strips from the folded cloths. I'm ready to get started, so I just separate me a strip. I scrunch the end up a bit and staple it to the bulletin board. I continue to just scrunch and staple my way around the board. You can scrunch as much or as little as you want. I just played with it until I got the result that I was looking for. All good, right? Well, if you have hours to spare, sure. It took me about four hours to do two small boards. Probably wouldn't have taken as long, but my hands and arms kept cramping up. The result is adorable, but it is a lot of work. Music helps a bit, but not much. Maybe if I would have had a helper or someone to talk to it would have been better. Three trips to the classroom and I had two small boards and a majority of a very large board finished. I divided the large board with the border into three sections, so it is taking a while. Don't get me wrong. I love the results, but don't even try it if you don't plan on leaving the border up all year and have a ton of time with nothing better to do than scrunch and staple.

Two boards down and it only cost me a couple of dollars.

All finished.