Diy Double Matting

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.

Diy double matting.

Carol duvall host of hgtv s the carol duvall show shares her discoveries about matting and framing artwork. Acid free double mats to complement to your photographs. Thicker 4 ply mat board with 1 6 or 0 0625 thickness each. Something with a medium tack works well and you can always switch out the art.

I used my cricut maker for this project but you could absolutely use one of the. Our double mats are. 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. How to cut a double mat on a logan mat cutter.

The od outer dimension of the bottom mat would be 16 x 20 the id inner dimension would typically be 10 1 2 x 13 1 2. Buffered to a neutral ph acid free non conservation above industry standards so your photo will stay protected for longer. A double mat is not what many people think it is. I painted mine blue for this project.

Bevel cut to give your photo a professional finish. After that you can paint or decorate your mats if you d like. This will allow for 1 4 of the perimeter of the 11 x 14 artwork to be hidden essentially taped from the back underneath the opening of. Especially when the mat doesn t match the bright white of the frame.

12 x 12 inch cardstock i grabbed mine at joann s during a sale so each sheet was only 47 cutting machine. A double mat never involves cutting through two thicknesses of mat board. Match your whites dawgs. 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.

We will explain how to order 16 x 20 double mats for an 11 x 14 picture. How to cut a double mat on a logan mat cutter. Rather a double mat is just two single mats stacked together two single mats with two different size windows stacked together so the window of the under mat appears as a band of color around the inside of the window of.