Scrapbooking Group - Matting Photo's

[Janice]

Hello Scrappers! :D :D :D

When matting photo's with one, two or even three layers, do you cut a complete mat?

The reason I ask is because I was reading a magazine the other evening, and it was suggested there that if you are a bit tight on card/paper - if you cut the mat, then say at about 1/2" in, cut out the centre - this would give you further offcuts of the card/paper.

I then got thinking - maybe everyone does it this way anyway and I've been wasting a lot of card/paper????

To be honest, I hadn't even thought of cutting out the centres of the mats but I suppose it is a way of economising?

What do you do - what is your thoughts on this? :D :D :D

[BevS97]

I will only cut the middle out if I am short of that paper and am trying to eek as much use of it as possible - or if it's a very large mat.

I quite like to mat the entire page, but that would be a lot of paper wasted, so if I do that, then I would cut out the center of that piece.

It's also supposed to help reduce the bulk in your album - particularly if you tend to use double or triple mats.

Bev

[Nick The Cat]

I'm afraid I'm of the Shirley Conran school of scrapbooking - "lifes too short to cut the middle out of the mat". However, like Bev I'd probably do it if I was short of the paper I was using.

[Astrid]

Well for goodness sake Janice, I just had to re-read your title as for a moment there I thought you were posting something x-rated!!

I read it as 'mating photos' and suddenly your scrapbooking took on a whole different meaning!! :eek:

Astrid x :)

[Janice]

LOL Astrid - behave yourself! LOL ;)

Christine - who is Shirley Conran? Is she to Scrapbooking as Delia Smith is to Cookery?

Am I missing on something major here? ;)

[Nick The Cat]

Janice, no Shirley Conran has nothing to do with scrapbooking but she wrote the book "Superwoman" in the seventies and her most famous quote is "life is too short to stuff a mushroom". Must be showing my age :rolleyes: