How to Frame Your Own Pictures
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- €6.99
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- €6.99
Publisher Description
This visually appealing book introduces readers with no previous knowledge of the craft to simple techniques for creative home picture-framing. It shows how investing in a few essential hand tools and basic materials can save you hundreds of pounds on your framing costs, and help you create high-quality handmade gifts for family and friends. Step-by-step photos and easy-to-follow instructions - as well as useful 'insider tips' - reveal the secrets of DIY framing. Ten original projects include simple techniques to frame canvases and stretch canvas artworks, make standard frames and box frames using readily available timber, and even craft a 60-minute mirror frame from a plank of wood. You'll learn techniques for cutting mount-board and glass, and discover the secrets of easy gilding, decoupage and copper embossing to decorate your frames. The Woodland Pie framing style is all about accessible creativity; making easy and appealing frames from basic materials and always using hand-painted or hand-made finishes. Find out how to create a lustrous, versatile, go-to paint effect for your picture frames using nothing other than household emulsion paint, water, and wire wool! This brilliant how-to book cuts out the unnecessary and promises to get you hobby framing in no time – with creative flair.
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"Making a picture frame is a bit like making a pie—a series of satisfying small steps, but not too much of any one stage," writes Warren (Fear-Busting), owner of Woodland Pie framing, in this charming how-to. She begins with images of an upcycled gold frame, several box frames, and some colorful floating mounts before digging into the tools one will need to make their own, among them a miter saw, a corner clamp, craft knives, and some standard equipment such as a hammer and screwdriver. Next come the projects—there's a basic frame; a "Simple Stretched-Canvas Panel"; a decoupage cork, chalk, or peg board; and an embossed holiday frame, each broken down into step-by-step instructions. "Insider tips" are sprinkled throughout and offer guidance on making one's own paint, methods for picking frame and wood colors, and how much depth to give a piece. While even the simple projects require a fair amount of equipment and materials, Warren does a good job of presenting DIY framing as cost-effective, fun, and full of imagination: "Framing should be creatively expressive, rather than an exercise in military precision." Casual crafters likely need not apply, but those serious about framing will find this a great resource.
