Why Mat Photos?

Let's first start with what a 'mat' is, matting your photos is when you have an outline of the photo, a shape or a regular square around your photo in a cardstock.

You would do this so that you can emphasize your photo, bring out a particular color in the photo or if your entire page is muted, and you have a black and white photo it will bring the focus to your photo.

You can use more than one color mat at a time. If you want to get really creative you can even use decorative scissors or page punches to cut particular patterns out around the edges.

You can also use glitter to mat your photo, click here to check out a tutorial on how to do this with Martha Stewart glitter and glue.