How To Mat Pictures For Scrapbooking

Step 1 choose your photographs.

How to mat pictures for scrapbooking.

Twine or thin ribbon. Use the same concept for your scrapbook photos. Turn a quarter turn line up at the dot and cut again at the four. It s easy to line up your cardstock at the large white dot and cut along the 4.

Use a light color cardstock to mat a photo and then a darker color of cardstock to create an outside border. Avoid picking a mat color based on the room where the picture will be hung. A lot of cardstock comes in a variety of colors of 12 by 12 inch 30 5 by 30 5 cm sheets which is an optimal size for cutting mats for 5 by 7 inch 12 7 by 17 8 cm photos step 3 buy some decorative papers for decorative mats. Instead match it to the photo itself.

Choose a colored mat to complement the picture you want to frame. A scrapbook can help organize and proudly display the steady stream of photographs artwork awards and other keepsakes that accrue during a young person s school years. Trim the width if necessary to fit the scrapbook pages. Group mat the supporting photos a great time saving technique in scrapbooking is to mat several photos all on one piece of card stock.

Welcome to paper wishes scrapbooking 101 your guide to the basics of scrapbooking. Create something that s visually alluring by matching the color of the mat to a color in the background of the photo. Once you mat a photo with cardstock add a borer to the inside and outside edge of the cardstock with twine or ribbon. Use your paper cutter to trim down photos so they are the same size if you re using them on a group mat.

I ve cut these mats by hand and used the quick cut side of the mosaic moments cutting mat to create mats for my 4 4 and 4 3 photos. The most common sizes are 5 by 7 inches 12 7 by 17 8 cm and 4 by 6 inches 10 2 by 15 2 cm step 2 choose colors of cardstock that match your scrapbook s colors and theme. Here we taped two pieces of standard notebook paper together from short end to short end. You can use photos of any size and shape in a scrapbook.