Need a little help with sizes, please

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Need a little help with sizes, please

Hello, Everyone smiley

I read a list somewhere about the correct sizes to use for certain types of elements. Unfortunately, I did not bookmark the page and now I'm so sorry I didn't. My two questions right now relate to borders and corners.

Is there a typical size for corners? My initial thoughts would be to start with a canvas the size of maybe a 6 x 4 photo and make them to fit that size or smaller for a smaller size photo.

And as far as borders, are they the size of the paper, meaning 12 inches either vertical or horizontal?

I am trying to learn the correct way of putting together a full size kit.

Any help would be appreciated. smiley

Em

For elements, I always make things a little bigger. So, for your example of photo corners, I would take a 4x6 blank on a 12x12 background and then make the photo corners about 1.5 times bigger than what they would be in real life. I think of it this way - its easier to make it smaller than it is to make it bigger. As for things that are going to go across the entire width/length of a page, I make them the 12" most of the time. Once in a while I'll make a ribbon a little wider/longer than page width, but not very often.

yes, borders are 12 inches either in width, or in height. for the corners, it depends on how will you make them. I prefer when corners come separated (like this) than when they come together (e.g, this) because a) I am so lazy to separate them and b)I don´t know if everybody knows how to separate - I learned 1 or 2 months ago, have been digiscrapping for two years. Making them sepparated, you can have them measuring between 0,7 - 1,5 inches - I´d start with a 1x1 in square, or 2x2 if I feared jaggies a lot.

Is this the list you know, or there is another one?

It´s good to know that you´re interested in put up full sized kits smiley Tagger ones are so restrictive....

Great link Lorien!!! You are so smart with all that info stored in your head! smiley

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Is this the list you know, or there is another one?

Thank you, Ladies!
Lorien, that definitely looks like a list I saw, but I know I didn't see it on that site. I would have remembered all the bright colors. I bookmarked the page now. Thank you very much. smiley

Nah, no credits for me. Who pointed this out was Karen Diamond on a class I´m taking, and I just copied and paste the url on my files for the class smiley

Thank you very much for the list. I have just been kinda going by the sizes from a few of my favorite designers.

Now having the list I won't have to keep looking through kits to try to remember who had what element in what kits. smiley

Very fun- I just eyeball it, but that's a good link to have!

Thanks for the tip. I have always struggled with the sizes