Count and Cut - How to use your Mosaic Moments Mat

How do you unlock the system? Use your Mosaic Moments Cutting Mat to COUNT & CUT - it's that simple! 

To explain, first lets look at a finished page detail. Note that each photo square is sized to one inch. Between each square there is an eighth inch gap.

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If you want to cut a photo to cover 5 squares (like the shells in the page above) You need to count 5 squares and 4 gaps on your mat.

The Mosaic Moments Cutting Mat is printed with a coordinating system. Thick lines are printed at one inch marks. Thinner lines are printed every eighth inch.

click on image to see larger view:

 
This is how you would count 5 squares and 4 gaps on your mat.

So, when you want to cut photos to cover more then one square the rule is you will always have one less gap then you will squares.

cover 1 square width = 1 inch

cover 2 square width = 2 1/8 inches (count 2 thick lines and 1 thin line.)

cover 3 square width = 3 2/8 inches (count 3 thick lines and 2 thin lines.)

ETC.
 

To explain, first lets look at a finished page detail. Note that each photo square is sized to one inch. Between each square there is an eighth inch gap.

.

If you want to cut a photo to cover 5 squares (like the shells in the page above) You need to count 5 squares and 4 gaps on your mat.

The Mosaic Moments Cutting Mat is printed with a coordinating system. Thick lines are printed at one inch marks. Thinner lines are printed every eighth inch.

click on image to see larger view:

 
This is how you would count 5 squares and 4 gaps on your mat.

So, when you want to cut photos to cover more then one square the rule is you will always have one less gap then you will squares.

cover 1 square width = 1 inch

cover 2 square width = 2 1/8 inches (count 2 thick lines and 1 thin line.)

cover 3 square width = 3 2/8 inches (count 3 thick lines and 2 thin lines.)

ETC.
 

Comments

[Coelle Baskel]

It was demonstrated to me at a show and I'm sorry, I don't quite 'get it'. If you have a 4x6 picture where you want the whole picture included ...at what measurements do you cut the picture to fit the 1" squares in a continous pattern? (I would think you'd just cut the 6" width at every 1 inch mark). Thank You!