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We can make all sorts of variations on this basic frame. For this picture of my cats raiding the fridge, I used C11a and C11c as before, but in between them I used 2d frame and set a white frame width 40, outward. (The frames look narrower on this picture because I framed it full size and after the frame was complete, resized it, with the frame, to 50%). I used the Effect/Creative/Artist Texture to make a texture tile to use as a fill in the white part of the frame.
I then clicked first on pattern template no. 17 and followed it with no. 16. (You will not get this effect if you reverse the order of the pattern templates). The tile I chose was the third of the six pattern samples offered. The new image was automatically filled with the texture when I selected the sample and clicked OK.
After clicking OK and returning to the texture tile, I used Edit/Select/Merge all, and then zoomed in so that I could see clearly where the colours where. Using the same magic wand settings, except that similarity was 25, I clicked on the brown 'petals'. In the Button Designer for this selection I used the settings below.
These two coloured tiles, and the border to this page, all use the same Artist Texture pattern, so you can see how different they can become when the Web/Button Designer/Any Shape is used to give them some depth. The picture below shows a coloured textured tile used in an oval frame. If you save frames to the frame gallery, rectangular frames will adapt themselves to any size or shape of square or rectangle, while oval ones will adapt themselves to any size or shape of circle or ellipse.
I hope this tutorial has given you a few ideas to set you off on creative experiments of your own with frames and textures.
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To make the texture tile I opened a new image 100 x 100, made it the current image by clicking on it, and then selected the Artist Texture and clicked on reset. I used the Edit button to access the colour palette rings and selected the gold one, no. 5.
On the frame around the cats picture I used the Magic Wand (left) to select the white part of the frame, with the settings shown below. 
I then clicked on the texture to make it the current image and then on the copy button (left of the pair on the right) and paste button (right of the pair on the right). This placed an object copy of the tile on top of the original one. Holding down the T key, I dragged this onto the cats picture where it tiled itself to fill the selected area of the frame.
A texture fill given a 3d treatment can also be very effective as a frame fill. Something with a fairly geometric shape lends itself well to this treatment. This one was made by resetting the Artist Texture, and with the gold palette the current one, click first on pattern template 12, followed by pattern template 17.
Then, with the magic wand, Mode new, Similarity 30, Select by line, search connected pixels unchecked, I clicked where the X is on the illustration on the left. I then opened the Web/Button Designer/Any Shape, and set the settings as shown below. The bevel shape used throughout was the one on the right.
The tile on the left was the gold one, which can be used very effectively as a classic frame fill. But you are not limited to gold colours. The tile on the right was made with one of the rainbow palette rings, and the colours were selected individually and given slightly different bevel heights. You can experiment with the colours and the bevels, using even drop shadows on some colours, to give all sorts of different textures and fills for frames and for web page borders and backgrounds, and for anywhere else where you need an unusual fill. The one below has a drop shadow applied to the green.
