DIY – Custom Baroque Laser Cut Frame

With so many cool prints out there I found myself buying a few for my boyfriend this Chrismukkah. What I didn’t take into account at the time was that prints need to be framed. Naturally, they sat around in their cardboard sleeves for most of the year until enough was enough and we decided to tackle this problem we face whenever we need custom framing: how does one frame a print design to hang on a wall when the vast majority of custom framing options are boring?

Materials: Fleet Street Scandal’s “Afternoon Tea On Threadneedle Street”, optically coated glass, picture clips, a trustworthy laser cutting facility, plywood, wood stain, skull pendant

Process: The answer came in the form of laser cut plywood. After designing the outlines in Adobe Illustrator, we were able to have the frame cut directly from our outlines. We had a few extra “L” shaped pieces cut that we glued on the back to create a framework to hold the print in place along with some picture clips we stole from an old frame to hold the artwork in. To finish it all off we stained the plywood with a medium wood stain, affixed a brass skull pendant at the top, and went to our local craft store to have museum glass cut.

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