How To Make A Mat For Aframe

I painted mine blue for this project.

How to make a mat for aframe.

Match your whites dawgs. It is easy to design and cut your own mats with the cricut maker and the knife blade. After that you can paint or decorate your mats if you d like. Make custom mats for frames with this simple step by step tutorial.

Carol duvall host of hgtv s the carol duvall show shares her discoveries about matting and framing artwork. Here the image is cut apart each section mounted on 1 4 foam. It is easy to design and cut your own mats with the cricut maker and the knife blade. Especially when the mat doesn t match the bright white of the frame.

Mats come in many different colors designs and thicknesses. Beginning with a turquoise mat add 1 2 foam board on top and end with the addition of a white mat on top of the foam board. Pick a mat or a number of mats if you choose to utilize multiple layers you like that is a good look for the picture you ll be framing then decide whether the mat will go around the edges of the picture in the frame or serve as a frame itself. Then you tape your art photo to the back of the mat making sure your piece is centered in the mat as you want it i used masking tape for this.

In addition to that issue i was also working with some art sizes that didn t actually fit the mats they were square or just off the usual size and mixing in some vintage frames which didn t have any mats at all.