Everyone wants their home to look beautiful. Numerous ideas gleaned from various television programs and shows are aimed at instilling taste and its development in humans. On the Internet, in magazines they tell how to create comfort and coziness in a house, apartment or cottage with your own hands. Sometimes it happens that a photograph chosen to decorate the interior does not look fantastically beautiful, but slightly larger in size than the photograph itself. For such cases, it is intended for mats. Passepartout is a paper or, most often, cardboard rim, placed on top of a picture, photo, embroidery placed in a frame. The purpose of such a rim is to give a subject a more aesthetic appearance.
Before you make a passe-partout yourself, so as not only not to spend an impressive amount of money on its purchase, you need to look at the master classes online, purchase the necessary materials and, above all, think over the shape and color of the passe-partout. This article will tell about how to make a mat, without spending a lot of effort and time.
For this lesson, we need a photograph, a frame with glass and a back cover, a sheet of good-quality cardboard, which is also called "cardboard for passe-partout", a pencil, an iron ruler, a stationery knife, adhesive tape and glue.
To understand how to make a mat, you must first prepare the workplace. It should be spacious enough and clean. It is best to do work on glass or scratch-resistant material.
In order for the passe-partout to be of the required size, you can take the glass of the frame (if it is removed) or the photo-insert of the frame. By the size of this element, we cut out the base of our mat. Two such blanks can be cut: the second can be used to attach a photograph. Based on the location and boundaries of the position of the picture, we use the clerical knife to cut out this “window”. This is the mat.
How to make a passe-partout multi-colored, combining many shades? To do this, it can be pasted with paper, combined with the color of the frame. To do this, put the blank on the back of the paper.
Having departed from each external side by 1-1.5 cm and from each internal line 0.5-1 cm, we connect the labels along the perimeter. On the drawn lines with the help of a clerical knife, we cut out the shape we need. At an angle of 45 degrees, cut off the corners in it and make small cuts for bending.
Using glue spray or double-sided tape, attach the mat to the paper. Next, bend and glue the corners. It turns out a wonderful frame for the photo.
Now back to our second blank. According to the previously outlined marks, we attach the photo to the cardboard base with double-sided tape or glue. Insert the mat itself into the frame, then install the base with the picture on top and close the lid. All. Our framed photograph is ready.
Many people engaged in needlework are interested in: "How to make a mat for embroidery?". A distinctive feature of the design of such handmade work in a frame with a mat is pulling the fabric on the base. This can be done using wide double-sided tape or special glue. In this case, glue or adhesive tape is first applied to the cardboard base according to the previously made marks, and then embroidery is applied on top. Passepartout can be stepped, round, oval or any other shape. The main thing - before you make a mat for the picture, select its color so that the combination with the frame is perfect.