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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Matting Your Pictures

To help get us in the mood for scrapbooking our Christmas memories, here's a Christmas page I made about my newborn nephew who seemed to always be sleeping.
It also shows some variations for matting your pictures.  The focal photo is matted 5 times!  It was super easy -- I just used a paper cutter and cut the rectangles so they increased in size by 1/4" each time -- thus giving an 1/8" border around each one.  Using the variety of colors helped pull the colors from the page together with the color of the shirt in the picture. Note the way the smaller pictures are arranged on a border - which is is also matted.  To get the scalloped effect, I traced around a scalloped ruler I have and then cut along the lines. Remember - multiple matting can be a great way to tie in a variety of colors in your layouts.
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