How to Frame Your Own Pictures

by Jane Warren

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526775719
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	12/28/2021
Series:	Crafts
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	1,044,348
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jane Warren is an award-winning senior writer on a national newspaper who has written eight previous books for publishers including Harper Collins and Hodder Headline. For the past decade she has also run Woodland Pie, a picture-framing micro-business, from a studio in her woodland garden. She lives among hazel and oak trees with two children, three strange cats and a mad spaniel. Her long-standing love of carpentry blossomed during the first lockdown of 2020 when she hand-built two shepherds huts.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Easy DIY Framing 6

Ideas for Inspiration 9

Must-Have Tools and Materials List for Handcrafting Frames 17

Chapter 1 How to Make a Basic Frame 27

Chapter 2 Simple Stretch Ed-Canvas Panel 50

Chapter 3 Decoupage Cork, Chalk or Peg Board for the Kitchen or Study 57

Chapter 4 Gilding a Charity Shop Frame 68

Chapter 5 Easy-To-Make Box Frames for Photographs 76

Chapter 6 Embossed Copper Holiday Frame 86

Chapter 7 60-Minute Plank Mirror 97

Chapter 8 Shadow Box for a Three-Dimensional Object 106

Appendix: List of Suppliers and Resources 119

Editorial Reviews

10/18/2021

“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. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"Whenever possible, all directions are presented photographically, and with black-and-white illustrations when called for. Tips appear on almost every page, whether it’s how to craft a DIY set square, a definition of "pigment," or advice for arranging the insides of a shadow box."

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