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I'm going to start decorating the measuring board with some contact paper. The first decoration
I'm going to make is going to be a border all the way around the edges. I'm going to
take some yellow contact paper. Now, contact paper is perfect to use because we just peel
off the back and it already has some, a gluey sticky surface so we can put right on top
of our plastic that is our measuring board. So, I'm going to put our border. The way I
do that is, take the length of the contact paper and just cut a very thin strip, from
top to bottom. Now, it may not be the entire length of our plastic sheet but that's ok.
I can go ahead and just run a few strips up the length of the measuring board. Now that
I have my strips cut, I'm going to peel a little bit off of the back and I'm going to
put it down onto the edge of my measuring stick. Then I'm going to run it along the
length, and as I go up I can peel off the back as I continue up the measuring board.
This will ensure that I'm getting it very close to the edge and I'm keeping it straight.
Now, this strip should be very thin because I have my numbers, my markings, on the edge
of the measuring board. So I don't want to cover up those markings so I really want to
put it on the very edge of the measuring board. I'm using some very bright colors for my contact
paper, for my decorations, and we see that the border really makes it kind of stand out
and makes it very decorative, aside from putting images onto the measuring board itself. The
border makes everything kind of highlighted, so I always like doing it, but you should
just make sure that you don't cover up any of the numbers and, which is really the most
important part of the measuring board, obviously. We see that the back of the contact paper
comes with all different types of measurements on it, and this also helps us when we want
to cut, we have some different squares and different, different markings that we can
use as points to know exactly how thick and what kind of size of shapes that we're making.
Now that we've finished putting our border, we can go back over the strip that's next
to the numbers, and we can make our markings again, and this will help it stand out a little
bit more. The important thing was that our border was thin enough that it didn't cover
up the numbers, but the markings, we can always redo and it's actually a nicer thing because
the markings stand out much better over the colored border than they did on the plastic
itself. So now I've shown you how to place a colored border of contact paper all around
the edges.