Craft Wednesday: Easy Matting for Diplomas

I don't remember seeing this on Pinterest, so this is pretty much a burst of creativity from my brain.

Diplomas can be boring to frame. My mom framed my Master's degree for me a few years ago (herself, in a wooden frame she found), but she didn't realize my Bachelor's wasn't framed. So I kept an eye out for a couple matching frames on sale. I didn't look hard. Eventually I found a couple I thought would work... oops, too small (kept them... I'm sure I'll figure out something to do with them).

I finally found a couple I really liked that would work.

My schools' colors are orange and brown and orange and black. So these frames work perfectly because they are brown and black.

The frames were a little too big for the diplomas (why are diploma frames more expensive than picture frames?) so for the "matting" (which really isn't matting at all or even close), I used scrapbook paper. I found orange and coordinating brown and black paper (metallic).

A quick, easy, colorful way to display diplomas! Much better than the holder they come in and not sitting in a box/drawer somewhere.