Without my die cut machine, I was looking for fun ways to mat my focals (this is another one of the freebie tags from Paper Wishes that I discussed a few days ago). For this one I used a template (from PW Design Tool Kit).
The shape was a bit taller than I wanted, but I've found it's pretty easy to adjust the sizes of these shapes a bit. In this case I drew the shape on the back of my card stock. I then moved it down a 1/4 inch or so and traced the top again, blending in at the edges. I repeated this with the bottom of the shape, moving it up 1/4 inch. This gave me better dimensions for what I wanted for this particular card. After I had it drawn the way I wanted it, I was able to quickly cut it out. Then, I took it to my score board and scored lines every 1/8 of an inch. I inked the edges and my mat was ready. It certainly wasn't as fast as using my die cut machine, but I think it gives a nice look.
The background is another one where I took two 4.5" x 6.5" mat stack pages, stacked them, and sliced across them at an angle so I could use half of each to make this background. A scrap of brown glitter paper forms a border between them.
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