Simple border on picture-in-picture

I'm trying to put simple borders on two items with FCPX 10.0.7:
Picture in picture (clip in clip) after I've transformed and trimmed the smaller clip.
PIP (still photo in clip) after I've transformed and applied Ken Burns to the photo.
In both cases, the border shows on only one side of the smaller item, or in some attempts 2 sides, but never all 4 sides.
Surely there's a way. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.

Thank you, Luis and Karsten. To answer your question, Luis, I'd been trying to add the simple border via, well, the Simple Border effect. That works fine for PIPs that don't need to be trimmed, and for photos that aren't getting a Ken Burns effect. Otherwise, not so fine.
Before I saw Karsten's reply, in desperation I'd already done a somewhat kludgy approach, along the lines of what Luis suggested: I put a generated rectangle behind the PIP, and carefully sized it to spill under the PIP just enough to look like a border, with the PIP stacked atop the rectangle in the story line.
The key, I found, was to make those 2 into a compound clip. Until I did that, the dissolve never looked right: there was a glimpse of the rectangle (not just its outer edges) behind the PIP, on both the dissolve in and dissolve out. But when the dissolve was applied to the compound clip rather than to the individual components, everything worked.
But my, that was more tedious than I'd have liked. Next time, I'll use Steve Martin's plugin.
Thanks again for the help,
Rich

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