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I've been looking at all the lovely journals in the gallery and I just can't tell if the majority of you are covering your mat board or just stamping it. I know it will work either way, I just can't decide what to do! Please help a girl out! What do you recommend?
__________________ Jennie
Mommy to twins Kaydon and Kolton 2 1/2yrs and Weston 11
Hi Everyone,
I love the matboard journals I see here and wondered if they are expensive to make.I talked to a friend and she said that the matboard was $20 a sheet.I don't how big of a sheet she meant.So I am curious about how much each completed one costs.I want to make them for gifts.
TIA,
Annemarie
I need to go buy some matboard :-)
I love those matboards and had no idea that it was that inexpensive.I am not that good at stamping yet and I did not want to try b/c I worried I would mess it up .But for that Price I can keep trying until I get it right.
THank you for replying you are wonderful and I have learned alot from this site and hope to post some stuff soon.
Thanks again :lol:
Annemarie
Attached you will find a price list that I came up with to make the journals/ scrapbooks so that I knew how much I had invested in supplies and could then charge accordingly for my class.
K
I got a huge sheet today for 3.99 at ACMoore...its on sale. I have also gotten some at the Ben Franklin craft store. I got an assorted pack of about 15 sheets (10x13) for only 3.99.
You all are lucky that have an AC Moore store! We only have Michaels here and mat board is $13 a sheet! I tried WalMart like other suggested and no luck. I went to a frame store, Aaron Bros., and they had mat board that seemed larger than Michaels for $11 a sheet. They also do the 40% off coupon. They also have the illustration board that someone else suggested for $7-8 a sheet and they are humungous! I went with that for now because it is a little bit sturdier. Thanks for all the inspiration!!!
I got 100 pieces of matboard on ebay for $9.99 all precut to 5x7 size. Think gonna try to do a journal in that size. It is an assortment too, some are covered with fabrics, some are gold and most are white but the colored ones are awesome. They are all acid free too, so that was a plus when getting them.
I just want to add that I went to the framing dept. at Michael's & they charge 2.04 for a 6"x6" piece!! I thought that was ridiculous. So, today I went to Blick Art & Craft looking for something else & found a FULL aisle of mat board in every color you can imagine. The price I paid was 7.99 for a 32" x 40" piece.
Matboard is what you would use to Mat a picture within a frame. It is about a quarter inch thick or less and comes in a variety of colors...look at some framed art in your home and it is what you see in the frame...it is sold in large sheets or you can buy the smaller sheets that are cast offs.
D'oh!! Thanks Keri. Of course thats what mat board is! I am so dumb sometimes. So you guys can use it for making other things, eh? I will have to check that out!!
I have heard a few ladies on here saying that Michaels will sell their scraps of matboard for really cheap. MINE DOESNT! I was so mad! They wanted like $15 for a peice of matboard. Needless to say, I am still shopping for the best price for matboard. Anyone from Dallas who can direct me to cheap matboard?
The mat board is cut..... I have a question!
