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How to Frame your Needlework, Tapestries and Paintings
- Photograph your artwork and import the digital image into the YourFramer™ program. Stretch out the subject so that it is flat.
- Select the mounts to suit your artwork, using the tips and advice in the program files. With the YourFramer™ program you can try any number of mounts and frames.
- Once you are happy with your design and colour selections, order your framing kit. The kit comes complete and fully assembled, ready for you to insert your "masterpiece"
- To help you complete the job there are additional items such as Needlework tape & Hinging tapes for artworks - all available in the shopping cart.
Framing a Jigsaw Puzzle
Jigsaw puzzles can be framed with any style of frame. These can be framed with a protective layer of glass or acrylic. The YourFramer™ kit frame for Jigsaws puzzles, is supplied with acrylic glass.
An alternative to glass is to "Brush Mark" the surface with Texturing Cream. This makes the image appear like an original oil painting. It also seals the surface so glass is not necessary, and the cream penetrates around the edges of the pieces of the puzzle which helps keep them firmly in place. Here is the method we used to frame our jigsaw.
- Firstly the puzzle needs to be mounted/glued down so that the pieces do not move. Place a board over the completed jigsaw, and turn the whole picture upside down
- Spray the back of the puzzle with Spray Adhesive, then place a piece of fomecore onto the back and press onto the adhesive.
- Turn back, and the puzzle pieces are now glued into place.
- Brush the Texturing cream onto the surface, leaving brush strokes. Frame when the cream has dried. Glass or Acrylic is not necessary.
Wallpaper and Decorative Mounts
You do not have to use the standard coloured mount supplied in your kit.
- Cover the mat with decorative wallpaper, scrapbooking papers, wrapping paper, or a pattern created and printed on your own computer.
- Your favourite photo of your children can be given a wonderful new look by using different papers to cover the standard coloured mountboard.
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