looking for creative borders

i am new to apple. i want to create an invitation with some kind of interesting border. in microsoft word, i was able to go into clip art and do this. can't figure out how to get similar images. can someone help me? is there anything in pages that can achieve this? thanks.

mac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 8, 2008 3:13 PM

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Apr 9, 2008 6:55 AM in response to cindy d

There are so many resources on the web.

whether you simply download your borders from the internet;
(searched google "free borders" and found this nice one)
http://karenswhimsy.com/free-page-borders.shtm

..or make your own borders. I found these nice brushes for photoshop or GIMP (Free);
http://www.kristarella.com/2007/11/24-sweet-gimp-and-photoshop-brushes/

DeviantArt is another resource that has some nice borders you may download free.

There is much more on the web. Just stop using the canned cheap clip-art borders such as the balloons, hearts, and 1-dimensional ugly colored graphics that come in CD clip-art packages that are probably from the 1980's.

Apr 9, 2008 7:54 PM in response to cindy d

Or try old school -- a book! Check your local library for artwork, wood cuts, borders, art-deco, etc. and take a point and shoot digital camera for capture, um, for personal use only. And anyway, some books are royalty free! See link / excerpt below.

http://library.rit.edu/pubs/guides/quaintcuts.html

+excerpt from the link+
Selected Bibliography of Copyright-free Graphics for Reproduction

This bibliography lists many of the books in the RIT Library collections that are useful sources of pictures and other decorative embellishments for desktop publishing, invitations, announcements greeting cards, posters, and other graphics projects. The illustrations included in these collections derive from a great variety of copyright-free sources dating from the middle ages to the twentieth century and were selected and presented in a format suitable for reproduction by photostat, photocopy, or scanning (most are black and white line illustrations). In most cases, up to ten illustrations can be copied for each project without obtaining permission from the publisher. The following general categories have been used to group the books listed in this guide:

*(Example entry)*
OVER TT771.B75 1974
William Briggs and Company. Designs and Patterns for Embroiderers and Craftsmen. New York: Dover, 1974.
512 motifs (mostly floral) from the William Briggs and Company Album of Transfer Patterns published around the turn of the century. Designs are all rendered in outline form and range from full-page compositions to tiny accents including borders and repeat patterns as well as single motifs.

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