How to make a passepartout: a master class and tips.

Everyone wants his home to look beautiful. Numerous ideas, drawn from various television programs and shows, are aimed at inculcating taste and its development in humans. On the Internet, in the magazines tell how to create your own hands in the house, apartment or dacha comfort and coziness. Sometimes it happens that this or that photograph, chosen for decorating the interior, does not look fantastic in a frame, which is slightly larger than the picture itself. For such cases, and intended for a mat. Passepartout - paper or, more often, a cardboard rim, superimposed over a picture, photo, embroidery, placed in a frame. The purpose of this rim is to impart a more aesthetic appearance to the object.

Before you do the matting yourself, so as not only not to spend an impressive amount of money to purchase it, you need to look through the network master classes, purchase the necessary materials and, first of all, to think out the shape and color of the mat. This article will tell how to make a matting without spending much time and effort.

For this lesson we need a picture, a frame with a glass and a back cover, a sheet of good cardboard quality, which is called "cardboard for matting", a pencil, an iron ruler, a stationery knife, an adhesive tape and glue.

To understand how to make a passepartout, you must first prepare a workplace. It should be spacious enough and clean. It is best to work on glass or scratch-resistant material.

In order for the passepartout to be of the required size, it is possible to take the glass of the frame (if it is removed) or the picture-frame liner. By the size of this element, we cut out the base of our passepartout. You can cut two such blanks: the second one can be used to fix the photo. We plan on the basis of the place and the boundary of the picture and with the help of a clerical knife we cut out this "window". This is the mat.

How to make a passepartout multi-colored, combining many shades? For this, it can be pasted with paper, combined with the color of the frame. To do this, put the workpiece on the reverse side of the paper.

Having deviated from each outer side by 1-1.5 cm and from each internal line 0.5-1 cm, we connect the marks along the perimeter. With the aid of a clerical knife, we cut out the shape we need using the lines we have drawn. At an angle of 45 degrees cut off the corners in it and make small incisions for bending.

Using adhesive-spray or double-sided adhesive tape, attach the mat to the paper. Then bend and seal the corners. It turns out a wonderful frame for photography.

Now back to our second workpiece. On the previously labeled tags, attach the photo to the cardboard base with two-sided adhesive tape or glue. We insert the mat into the frame, then we place the base with the picture on top and close the lid. All. Our photo is framed.

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 the frame with the passepartout is the stretching of the fabric to the base. This can be done with a wide double-sided adhesive tape or special glue. In this case, glue or scotch is first applied to the cardboard base on previously made labels, and then the embroidery is already superimposed. The passepartout can be stepped, round, oval or any other shape. The main thing - before you make a mat for the picture, choose its color, so that the combination with the frame was ideal.