Make A Frame For A Laminated Picture

Step 7 set a clothes iron to its highest setting without steam use.

Make a frame for a laminated picture.

Align the four outer trim pieces you previously cut. This tutorial from design salon shows you to miter corners for your diy picture frame using a hand saw instead of a miter saw and includes info for framing an existing canvas. Materials needed to make diy picture frames. Make sure you find screws short enough that they won t go all the way through to the front of your frame.

Photo via persia lou. Carefully is a key work in that sentence. Remember to remove all hardboard pieces so they don t accidentally get glued to the front of the frame. When complete the glass picture and backing will be flush with the outer frame.

For more creative ideas check out persia lou. This is basically a long piece of nylon with a clamp on the one side. Are you interested in making a unique collage picture frame. Construction of these frames is really easy and would only take a few hours mostly due to the drying time of the liquid nails and mod podge.

To learn how to make a classic mitered wood picture frame perfect for photos chalkboard art and printables check out my super easy diy wood picture frame tutorial. Allow it to heat to the selected temperature for about three minutes. Turn the laminated picture over so that the image is face up. The other option is to resize the frames till they are of the best size for the pictures you have.

Carefully drill them into the corners of the back of your frame. Clamp each joint to secure. First you can just use the picture frame as it is and just add a mat at the back of the picture to hold in place. If you want to make a picture frame cut 4 pieces of wood 2 cut to the length and 2 to the width you want for the frame and angle the ends of the wood 45 so the pieces fit together neatly.

Place the paper backing over a corner of the image sheet and press the iron over the sandwiched sheets for about five seconds to meld the laminate. In order to keep the frame together i also used a band clamp. Learn how to make a picture frame in this free video clip about laminating collage pictures. There are a lot of creative projects.

View the full tutorial on persia lou to learn how to make your own diy laminate flooring frames. Cut a notch on the inside of each piece of wood to hold the glass in place.