How to add frame to canvas

Learn how to frame a canvas painting for less than $5 with this simple DIY tutorial! Make your canvas wall art look expensive with this basic DIY project.

As luck would have it, or maybe it was karma, my canvas showed up yesterday – right after I posted the blog! So, of course I had to whip up a frame to mount it on. Then, I had to write another blog to build up some more blogging karma…come on lucky lotto numbers 😉...

Want to upstyle your canvas art, prints & photos? Read this tutorial on how to add a wooden frame to a canvas print to bring your art into the 21st century!

Have you ever wondered what those little pieces of wood are for, or plastic in the case of some cheaper canvases, which come with a stretched canvas? Sometimes the canvas keys are stapled on the back in a small bag, sometimes they are already glued to the mitered corners of the stretcher bars (the wooden frame that the canvas is attached to). These pieces of wood are wrenches or canvas clamps, which are used if the canvas starts to sag a little on the stretcher. This can happen over...

How to frame a canvas (with pictures!) the easy way! Learn how to frame a canvas board for just a couple bucks INCLUDING easy to use tools!

How To Frame a Canvas with a Normal Picture Frame

Digital downloads are available everywhere these days. You can get artwork delivered to your inbox within seconds, but then what? There are many possibilities and I’m going to show you one. Here’s how I turned my digital download into canvas artwork. FIND ARTWORK The first step is to choose artwork that really speaks to you... View Post

One of the challenges of creating DIY art on canvas is in deciding how best to display it – namely, whether or not to frame it. It’s easiest not to frame, of course, and this can often make a great statement displayed on its own or as part of a gallery wall. But seeing that the piece I had in mind was a mid-to-large-scale canvas (2′ x 3′) and seeing that all of my art and mirrors on the main floor of our bungalow are framed, I decided to have my DIY art blend in with what I already have (see…

Want to learn how to frame a canvas for only $8? This simple DIY shows you how to build a basic frame in any color for a canvas.

Does your canvas art look unfinished? Elevate it with this DIY canvas frame. It's easy and inexpensive to make!