Turning Cutout's into Tubes

This in my first created background. I make the tubes from Dingbat Cats font. I have never taught that it is possible to do picture from fonts. It was for me great surprise.

I did the border with pleat. The tutorial I found: http://moonlight-designs.com/tutorials/pleats.html

The problem was that I didn't know the measurements, so I think. Or maybe the problem with layers? When I pasted the background to my page, I get the right border. It is accidentally.

This picture done with tubes the letter "C" and "A".

The cat is made on colored background, the dog on transparent background

My second background for the next assignment

Hi, Your cutout homework also looks great. When you create a background with a left border, make sure the finished width of the background is at least 1200 pixels and you won't get the border on the right side. I attached a week 3 ribbon for your page. CheriJ

Link to tutorial Page 109.