Framing and matting

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by brookdodger55

For anyone interested, the crafts store Michael's accepts the 40-50 percent off coupon on the cutter, coupons are available in their flyer that comes with your weekly newspaper or online email if you sign-up. I purchased the cutter that sells for 129.99 for 65 bucks, a pretty good deal, time to get practicing with my My cutting skills. Thanks to all for the great thread.

Mike

Hey Mike, have you had a chance to play with the cutter yet?

[Rickyy]

Everyone's attempts inspired me...so I finally got off of my butt and just did some myself...bought a Logan Compact Matte Cutter... some acid free backing boards, frames, mattes etc...and away I went... only messed up one matte cut so far...






Ricky Y

[Lordstan]

Ricky,
Great job. Glad we could all inspire you.
I would've never thought of going with that light blue for the Ruth ad, but it really works very nicely.
Keep up the good work.
best,
Mark

[Lordstan]

I did 2 new ones last night. Not sports, but I didn't think anyone would mind.

Ramones


Rush Before


Rush After


BTW: If you didn't see the R&R HOF induction ceremony for Rush, you should check it out. The intro by Foo Fighter's Grohl and Hawkins as well as the acceptance speeches by the band were all pretty funny.

[mr2686]

Ricky, those look great, keep up the good work and make sure to keep posting them.

Mark, you're making me nostalgic for my High School days in the 70's with the Ramones and Rush on my turntable. Oh c'mon, you guys know what a turntable is don't you?

[Lordstan]

Mike,
Not only do I remember the turntable, I still have one that works.
Mark

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Mike,
Not only do I remember the turntable, I still have one that works.
Mark

Me too, but I never seem to use it and the records stay packed away. Just seems easier to download music these days.

[brookdodger55]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Hey Mike, have you had a chance to play with the cutter yet?

I've played with some 8 by 10 poster board for practice' I'm looking through
all my stuff and trying to match up some items to put together in a multiple
cut out. I will post when I finish my first multi cut out piece.

Mike

[Lordstan]

Mike(BD55),
When I did my first multi cut out piece, I made what I think might be a common mistake. Maybe it'll help you before you try. Make sure there is enough distance between the 2 items you are matting. If you are single matting the items, the distance only matters from an asthetic standpoint. If you are double matting, you need to remember that the top mat will be at least 1/4in smaller than the bottom mat. The problem I had was that my 2 items were too close and after subtracting 1/4in from each cutout, the top mat wound up very thin. It was not only difficult to cut, but also didn't look right.

Pictures will explain what I mean better.

Here are 2 pictures of Mel Ott that I matted. Notice the size of the brown top mat between the 2 images.



Now here is the Gehrig group that I put together. Notice how thin the top blue mat is between the Picture and the Sporting news book. I didn't leave myself enough space to get an even amount of Blue top mat in between each item. I have to tell you that this thing was a pain to do. I'll probably redo it at some point.


Good Luck,
Mark

[Lordstan]

Newest addition

[mr2686]

Thought I'd post a couple of new ones. Remember, there's no right or wrong when it comes to colors of matting, but there is good and better. Sometimes it's just down right hard especially with Perez Steele cards or magazines because old magazines have faded colors and PS have some weird colors on some of them. Case in point, I've seen several Bancroft PS cards matted and most people use the weird blue that's in the background. Here's one I just did where I used more of a sandy skin tone with a color to match the hat brim and team letter for the inside mat. For the magazines, yellow always seems to go good with green and fortunately there was yellow lettering on the covers. Dark blue was used to match the Yankee hats and undershirt.

[Lordstan]

Mike,
I agree with you on the good and better comment.
I like the Bancroft very very much. I like what you did with the mags as well, though I might've gone a different direction. I prefer the off white colors to the starker yellow and I probably would've gone with a cream/ivory inner mat.

I just got and did this tonight. Even though I'm a Mets fan, I've always wanted a Pujols. Such a great player, and so far not implicated in any funny business, on or off the field.
I had the black fillet from another frame and I thought it would go well with the red inner mat for the Cards. If I had gray on hand, I think It would've looked nice, but the black worked pretty well I think.



best,
Mark

[mr2686]

Very nice Pujols, red and black always look cool in framing. Yeah, sometimes a direction on the matting depends on what else you have or are going to have with it. I've got two Duke Snider magazines that I recently matted using a white outer mat and a red inner mat to bring out the red in the covers. I normally would have (and I think it would have looked better) used a white or grey outer mat and a blue inner mat for those, but I have so much Dodger stuff close together with those same colors that I wanted something different.
That brings me to another point for those that are just starting to mat and get there stuff displayed. Always, and I know it's hard, try to plan waaaaaaay ahead on how things will be displayed and with what. Sometimes you kinda paint yourself in to a corner with the type of matting or framing you're using. I had some frames I wanted to use for awhile but they just wouldn't go with what else was on the wall. I eventually found a way to move what was already there in to another room and that opened up a bunch of possibilities.