Personalized Matting Kit for A Picture Frame

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Debbie and this is Woody and we're here to tell you about personalizing your picture frames. We found a need from working with artists and photographers and students that framing can be very expensive. And so what we've done is we've put together a kit that comes with every single thing you need to cut your own mats. We even give you twenty eleven by fourteen mats so that if you have your eight by ten photographs, you'll be able to the day you get this, start cutting your own mats. And so what we have here is we have our mat boards that you can start cutting right away. This is our mat "T" and that is how we measure out the mat so that you can cut it. And this here is an Alto mat cutter. It fits nicely in your hand, it's really easy to use, and then we have a tape measure. Again, you want to use a tape measure whenever you're measuring any of your work. We have different designs and patterns that you can use very easily to customize your own matting. It's very simply done. You have tracing paper that you can take that design and cut it for your own piece. You want to use a good pencil. Keep it very sharp. The Stanley knife here is how you cut your mats to size so that if you want to do an eight by ten you, can cut this down and you'll use your Stanley knife. And this is our straight edge. This is not to measure anything, it's to use as a guide for your mat cutter and also for your Stanley. We give you the double stick tape so that if you want to do a double mat, you can glue them together with this tape here. It's very easily found anywhere. And then you have your razor blades in case you have, when you're cutting your mats. If it didn't quite get that last little bit, you have a razor blade to cut it so it looks really nice. Our Alto mat cutter cuts on a bevel. So your mats are going to have a bevel. So this is, and it also has a clamp so that it's very easy for you to use. So, we're very excited. About this because everyone, students, artists and photographers can cut their own mats."