How to create photo frame border

Step:1

Draw a rectangle with no fill and have a stroke of 16pt and choose a border which you want.

border

Step:2

Make a copy of the rectangular border.Then place a image in this document.Now Place the rectangle border in front and image at the bottom. Go to object -> clipping mask.

clipping mask

Step:3

Now we have one more copy of the rectangular border.place it above the clipped image.

photo frame

Tags: designing, illustrator