How To Mat A Photo For Scrapbooking

The easiest way to create a balanced pleasing scrapbook page layout is to have a single focal point.

How to mat a photo for scrapbooking.

Take a single sheet of cardstock and lay it on your flat work table. If you use a precut mat you simply will adhere the mat to the photo centering it to the mat. Here the strongest of the four images is the focal point of the page. Now here s a page that has two mats and the photos are the same size the mats are the same size and they kind of form a joint focal point as opposed to one standing out more than the other.

When we mat a photograph our focal point picture or the one that holds the most interest on the page is usually double matted. Watch more videos from cooking fundamentals. Martha stewart and miller opie demonstrate different ways to preserve your family photos in scrapbooks and homemade frames. A single mat is one piece of paper or material between the scrapbook base page and your photo.

Select one photo to be the main picture on your layout. Quite often we make photo mats out of cardstock and call it good enough. Next crop or reprint the other photos in a smaller size so that the focal point photo is the largest one on the page. Here we have a page that has one photo matted and one isn t and so you can kind of see that the photo with the mat becomes more of a focal point on.

A good size photo mat is generally about an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch just depending on what you re doing for just a really simple mat. Mosaic moments patterns 302 and 307 the patterns for this layout 302 and 307 strip patterns relate to each other with both 3 5 and 4 4 spots and both pages have strip sections that i ve filled with pattern paper. It generally should be a solid color paper that will enhance the colors of your photo. Welcome to paper wishes scrapbooking 101 your guide to the basics of scrapbooking.

So i have cut one mat a little bit larger than our photograph and i have adhered it to another piece of paper scrap piece of paper and all i do is eyeball and trim off the excess to have a double mat. Whether you are brand new to scrapbooking or are just looking to maste. Make your own photo frames and scrapbook. How to create photo mats for scrapbooking.

Then you adhere the mat to the cardstock base. Easy way to cut your. However by adding just one or two embellishments you can create exquisite photo mats. I m going to align the corner of my photo with the corner of my paper just to about an eighth of an inch.