Easy Mats and Easy Angles

If you’ve ever tried cutting perfect angles and evenly matting your photos and letters, then you know how frustrating it can be. Easy Mats and Easy Angles help make this much easier.

Easy Mats consist of two small grooved discs and each disc allows you to create 2 different sizes of mats, with an upper and lower groove. They can be used to mat photos, letters, create journaling guidelines, and even to use inside larger templates, to make a smaller version of your templates.

To mat your photos, letters, etc. you just adhere the photo to the background paper, leaving some “unglued” area around the edges to slide the groove of the disc under. Then take your pencil and gently roll the disc around the edges of your photo. When you’ve gone all the way around, you’ll have an evenly matted photo. Just cut along your pencil lines and you’re done!

I especially like to use these when trying to mat circles! For the following layout, I also used my Easy Mat to make journaling guidelines so that I could journal around my photos in the same curve as the mat. After printing my journaling, I erased the guidelines.

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Easy Angles come in two different styles; a 45-degree angle and a 30-degree angle. These are steel angles, with ruler marks on each side to help you create perfect angles, especially helpful when creating kaleidoscope-type pages. Since the angles are made with steel, you can use your exact-o knife right up against it, without worrying about cutting or nicking the tool, and you get a perfect angle every time!

In the following layout, I used the 45-degree angles and the provided flag images from Easy Mats and Easy Angles. They have many kits of images in both the regular and mirrored image for making quick kaleidoscope backgrounds. Of course you can also use your own photos and just have them developed as both the regular image and the mirror image.

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Easy Mats and Easy Angles can be purchased at many local scrapbook stores, or you can order from their web-site www.easymats.com.

See layouts by the Scrapjazz Design Team and other members of scrapjazz using Easy Mats and Easy Angles.

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