Buy? No! It's time to create practical beauty with your own hands: tips on how to make a frame for a picture
The picture looks complete and laconic only in the frame design. Whatever one may say, but an unformed piece of canvas or just art on a sheet will not make the proper impression without a frame. The editors of the online magazine homemaster.techinfus.com/en/ believe that it is not necessary to buy a baguette, since making a frame for a picture with your own hands is not only interesting, but also easy!
So it won't take long to become a master in making frames
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- 1 How to decide on the design and size of the picture frame
- 2 How to make a stretcher for a picture with your own hands
- 3 How to make a baguette for a picture with your own hands
- 4 How to make a cardboard frame with your own hands
- 5 How to make a frame for a picture from scrap materials with your own hands
How to decide on the design and size of the picture frame
What determines product design? The surrounding interior. It is not enough to simply wish to see a blue pretentious frame in a picture in a room with a classic interior - therefore, we focus strictly on the style of the room.
Classic frames make your home more comfortable
Frame width plays a big role in perception
Do not forget that no matter how beautiful the frame is, the picture will remain the main one, therefore, when choosing a design, we remember the goal: to decorate and supplement
The size of the canvas and the image itself will tell you which sizes are preferable. Agree, if the canvas is small, and the frame takes up half a wall, this indicates problems with a person's taste.
How to make a stretcher for a picture with your own hands
The stretcher serves to stretch the canvas and is of two types: modular and blind. Being engaged in the manufacture of picture frames, people themselves determine which stretcher is more convenient - each model has its own characteristics.A blank subframe is a solid structure, the corners of which are fixed together with glue and wooden triangles. If the canvas sags, you have to pull it over.
It is not very convenient to transport such a picture with a deaf stretcher.
A modular stretcher, unlike a blind one, is movable and allows you to adjust the tension of the canvas. It is a collapsible design, very convenient for transportation.
We will tell you how to make a blind stretcher with dimensions of 100 × 180 cm.
To do this, we will prepare two-meter wooden slats, Moment wood glue, a measuring tape, sandpaper for processing the product, a hammer, a stapler for furniture with staples, corners and screws.
Everyone is able to decorate their own painting with a frame
What you need to work
As already mentioned, we purchase a ready-made wooden profile, fine sandpaper, prepare a jigsaw, wood glue and a tape measure.
It will work out ideally if you use a clamp in your work
If the profile is completely finished, then no additional actions are required, although, if desired, the baguette is decorated with gilding, craquelure varnish, patina.
Instructions for making a picture frame from a wooden plinth
We measure the picture and correlate them on the profile. The task is to make cuts at an angle of 45 ° and perfectly clean each one with sandpaper.
How to frame a picture with your own hands? Make a durable and beautiful baguette!
We apply glue to each saw cut and connect them together. This is where a clamp comes in handy, which will help make the bonding points very strong.
The baguette is left in this form for a while, and then used for its intended purpose.
On the seamy side, the picture must be covered with a sheet of plywood or durable cardboard.
DIY painting frames from polyurethane ceiling plinth
If you want to see a white picture frame on the wall, you can make a baguette from the ceiling plinth.
From the series "simple, fast, beautiful"
Carved baguettes are asked to decorate a classic style or baroque
What you need to work
Ceiling skirting boards are sold in every hardware store today, and the selection of products is great. For the first time, we suggest trying to make the simplest version from a medium-width profile without any special decorations.
For gluing we take Titan glue for ceiling tiles and skirting boards, we also need a stationery knife, a ruler and a protractor to measure the angle. If you want to paint over the whiteness of the plinth, prepare the desired color of acrylic paints.
Instructions for making a frame for a picture from a polyurethane plinth
Having made measurements horizontally and vertically, we prepare the base of the picture from thick cardboard or ceiling tiles (if the size of the canvas allows). The base is either the same as the picture, or slightly surpasses it.
Let's start creating the frame:
- We measure all measurements made on the baseboards and mark them with a protractor (remember that we need an angle of 45 °).
- We make cuts with a clerical knife according to the markings made, or with the help of a miter box we immediately cut off the finished elements.
- Before starting the gluing process, all sides are aligned with each other to ensure that all edges match exactly.
- You can glue all the pieces together and leave them alone for a while.
The frames are light, interesting
If you wish, you can always change the color of this picture frame.
How to make a cardboard frame with your own hands
A frame for a picture with your own hands from cardboard can be made by people without experience in applied art: it is cheap, beautiful and not at all difficult. In order for everything to work out the first time, you need to immediately prepare all the elements necessary for creativity.
Cardboard is a pliable material
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Cardboard is easy to decorate
What you need to work
In the work you will need thick cardboard for the base and for the frame itself.Both simple cardboard and corrugated cardboard are suitable here: it all depends on the desired thickness and strength of the product.
The thicker the material, the more difficult it is to work with it, but the stronger the result will be.
In addition to the main material, we prepare scissors, a stationery knife, a glue gun with glue sticks (or, in the absence of such, we purchase wood glue or Titan glue for ceiling tiles). It remains to pick up everything for the external decor.
The hot gun glues quickly and is suitable for working with cardboard
You can buy the right jar of paint
It is much more convenient to work with a knife
Cardboard products allow you to widely apply your own imagination: there are no boundaries for either form or decoration. You can decorate the product with textiles, beads, shells, and scrap paper.
Instructions for making a mat
Let's proceed to the instructions on how to make a cardboard frame for a picture.
| Illustration | Action Description |
|---|---|
 | Cut out a frame from cardboard taking into account the size of the photo. We put the scrap paper with its front side on the table and put a cardboard blank on it. We don't glue anything yet. |
 | We cut off the outer corners with scissors, and inside we make diagonal cuts using a clerical knife. |
 | We bend the outer borders. |
 | We carefully cut off the excess inside the product and bend the inner borders. We are in no hurry: everything should be smooth. Now we glue the inner borders to the frame, and then the outer ones. |
 | This is what the frame will look like. You can leave it simple without any decoration, but a couple of decorations will not be superfluous. |
Video: DIY cardboard photo frame
How to make a frame for a picture from scrap materials with your own hands
Making frames for paintings with your own hands is your own fantasy, embodied in practical use. It has become fashionable to decorate walls or tables with your own products, because this is the most direct inclusion in the design of your favorite home. Why is it worth trying to make frames with your own hands if there are a great many of them on sale? Well, who knows your preferences better than yourself? Who cares more for the warmth of the hearth, except the landlord?
Frames will create a whole compositional complex if they are made in the same style.
Weaving will become a highlight in the interior
Even wood cuts become decor
Bamboo is a convenient handy material
If we describe all the ways of creating picture frames, all the pages of our magazine will not be enough, so we will focus on the two most accessible materials: newspapers and buttons.
How to make a picture frame yourself from buttons
Beautiful picture frames are made from buttons! Many have button deposits from grandmothers and mothers, but not everyone knows what to do with them. For creativity, we do not need tons of new buttons, any will do!
Buttons are easy to glue
Such work can be hung in the nursery
What you need to work
Here we will use the previous paragraph of the content and start making a cardboard base: cut out the desired frame shape from cardboard.
We prepare a frame base, acrylic paints or spray paint, glue-moment or a thermal gun. If the buttons themselves are very beautiful, matched in harmonious combination with each other, then you only need to paint the base.
Now we turn on the appropriate music and get started!
Manufacturing instruction
We select the largest buttons and use glue to attach them one by one to the frame base. Do not rush to the next layer - let the first grab properly.
Then we begin to glue medium-sized buttons, trying to cover all the gaps. Small buttons cover the remaining gaps and are located over the entire surface of the frame.
It all depends on the imagination of the author
You can instruct your child to sew buttons on a soft base
The spray can will paint the entire frame at once, and you can create interesting color variations with acrylic paints.
Picture frame from old newspapers
As soon as the newspapers read and become unnecessary are not used in everyday life! If earlier they washed glasses and mirrors, today it is a fertile material for weaving baskets and various kinds of decor. Lovers of making frames were also attracted by the newspaper as a decoration material.
Tubes will never be superfluous: many people like working with them
The Internet is full of detailed master classes for making straws and crafts from them for home
What you need to work
We will not explain the basics of weaving here, but we will show you how to easily and quickly make a wonderful frame for a picture or photograph from newspaper tubes... We take a heap of newspapers, PVA glue, a thermal gun, acrylic paints or gouache of the color in which you want to see the frame and the frame itself (you can use cardboard).
Manufacturing instruction
We cut newspaper sheets in this way:
The width of the strip is 5 cm, the length is arbitrary
- Each strip is laid on a thin knitting needle (in its absence, an electrode, which must first be tapped, or a strong thin long wire equal in length to the knitting needle) will do at an angle of 45 ° and begin to wind almost to the end of the strip. The tip of the strip is greased with PVA glue and rolled to the end. The tube is removed from the needle and coated with PVA entirely. In this way, several dozen tubes are made (if the volume of the frame is large). As soon as the products are dry from the glue, you can paint them in any color.
- The dried tubes are laid out on a frame base and disassembled in accordance with their own wishes for the composition. You can lay them vertically, horizontally, obliquely.
- At this stage, we decide how long each tube should have: it is better to cut off the excess immediately.
- We put the tubes on a frame smeared with glue (or alternately with a heat gun) and tint the cut edges.
The dried frame is ready to accept and decorate any picture!
It's easy to create. The main thing is to find inspiration and start! We wish you both inspiration and time for your own creativity.
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