"Anyone Familiar With Exotic (or Egyptian) Scrapbook Borders?" Topic

1) Either the paper border punches; or, preferably,
2) The adhesive borders (thin embossed strips)

If so, is there anything with an exotic motif (such as Egyptian, SF or "ethnic") that could be used to line the bottom half inch or so of corridor walls?

Color doesn't matter, only texture (it will be painted over).

All I keep finding is the usual girlie and granny patterns:

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Thanks,

Dan

Look up Usborne Egyptian paper models (don't have any experience with them, have only heard of them.)

I could see this as lotus flowers: auction

This is kind of abstract/sci-fi: auction

A maybe: auction

Rectangles: auction

Vaguely middle-eastern: auction

sci-fi dots: auction

grid squares: auction

another mid-east-ish one: auction

Very cool!!!

Actually, one of your links lead me to this other style ("optic dot"):

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What do you think?

Could it pass for something "alien"?

Thanks,

Dan
PS. I wish it indicated how "tall" the edge happens to be.

My local artshop had a booklet of Egyptian stencils, don't know if that would have what you want.

For some reason I first read that as "erotic" instead of "exotic".

Personally I didn't know Egyptians were into scrapbooking. I need to brush up on my Egyptian.

Bow to the superior ebay-fu of Pedrobear!

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Pedrobear,

That is quite a find. Very nice. I was once looking at stamping media for stuff like that and never found it.

Thanks,

Dan

CC: Don't you have a Michaels or Hobby Lobby in Fort Bend? It's a bit creepy walking in the first time, but there's a whole aisle of punches, and most aren't 'granny'.

Well, you can always use pieces of even the granny ones that aren't. For instance, a picket fence gives you a grid if you cut the points and match two up. I'm planning on texturing a Nerf or two with thin plastic punched like that.

Doug

PS Do have a walkabout; amidst the c**p, there's small nuggets. I found some on-sale plastic beads that seem like native jugs or baskets, others that look like antiques bronze vases.

Trying to work up terrain detail kits with those and plastic fronds.

Went to Michaels today (Hobby Lobby is closed Sunday). Looks like it was raided by a mob of crazy people. Either that or they were re-stocking a lot of their stuff.

Anyway, the aisle with the punches is very bare right now. Will wait until Monday to try again (and to visit Hobby Lobby too).

Dan

I actually have a stamp set that produces images if Egyptian glyphs. I actually found it in the kids books section of Hastings one day when I took my daughter in there. It was on sale too as it was the last one and the box was beat up a bit. Look for kids educational books that come with stamps.

Found it!
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I went online and found a picture of a bunch of Egyptian writing, then printed it out on a decal sheet. You can get them from model railroad or model building hobby shops.

Interesting design at the top of these corridor walls:

Dan

You could use a craft cutter to make them. Something like a Silhouette, it has a basic cad type interface. Or I could adjust a black and white pattern into a cut file.

Another angle:

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Dan