I want to share with you the first useable mat (we don't count practice cuts) I made with the Logan 450 mat cutter I bought last year with my earnings from two second place wins in pet photography contests at a local store. I was initially too intimidated by the whole thing to actually try to make something useable but when I saw this picture I knew I had to frame it. It's a 5 x 7 image printed on a piece of 8.5 x 11 paper. I really like the balance of the arrangement. The large sheet of mat board from which this piece was cut cost $4.71...and there are many more mats to be cut from that same piece, so it really does pay to cut your own mats.