Blue Love Fleurons Photo Frame for Digital Scrapbooking

If you are into digital scrap booking, this would be a great photo frame for your scrapbook. This is a blue dotted photo frame with fleurons in the corners. At the top, the word Love is written. Take a look at the photo to get a visual of this frame. I will show you how to create this photo frame using Fireworks. You will need to be using Fireworks MX 2004 or earlier in order to create this Blue Fleurons photo frame.

We will start off by drawing the photo frame. So, select your rectangle tool and draw a rectangle on your canvas. Draw the rectangle the size that you want the photo frame to be. Then open the styles panel and click Style 20 to apply it to the rectangle. Change the color of the rectangle to #336699. Then change the texture to Grid 7 and set the amount of texture to 50%. The border will have nothing applied to it and we will leave it that way.

Now we will need to add the fleurons to the corners of the photo frame. If you do not have the Fleurons dingbat installed, you will need to download it and install it. It only takes a minutes to download and install. You can do a search on Google to find the dingbat. Once you have installed it, you can move on.

Select your text tool and draw a text box on your frame. Type the letter L in the text box. Make sure that you type a capital L in the text box. Then change the font to Fleurons. Set the size to what you want. I used a size 60. Change the color of the Fleuron to white. You will need to click the Transform Tool and turn the fleuron to make it look right.

Next, you will need to duplicate the other fleurons that you need. Right click on the fleuron that you just created and click Edit > Duplicate. Drag the other fleurons to the corners and use the transform tool to turn them. If you do not understand what I mean by turning them, look at the photo that I have provided and you will see how they should be turned.

Now you can add your text. You can use any font that you want. I used the Alison font style for my text. Select your text tool and draw a text box at the top of your photo frame. Type the word Love and change the color to white. Set it to the size that you want.