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Pin display question...

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BugCatcherJenna

BugCatcherJenna

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So I just ordered the most beautiful pixar lithographs from the disney movie rewards website- which includes a beautiful Brave one which I thought would be perfect to display my brave pins... I was thinking of framing it and putting a matte frame around it, and then pins on the matte frame, so the lithograph would not have holes in it. I was wondering if that would work? Has anyone done something like this? Does anyone have any better ideas?




(what the matte frames look like)


The lithograph I am getting!!


an idea of what it would look like... (but with more pins though)
 
Matte board is very think, you might want to prepunch the holes or use foam core instead. Also for the style of the pins and the lithograph you might want to paint or buy a colored matte board. A dark blue, forest green or anything in that area would do well. Also if you take the matte board to staples or micheals some of the places can do a diagonal cut for the middle, it gives a very refined beveled look to your image.

If you want too, you can measure everything and use a double matte board and frame them with a black rimmed frame would look pretty nice or if you do green matte board, go with a gold frame to match the pnis.
 

Great ideas.

Yeah, I thought the matte was thick. I may try to find something thinner.. or I could just cover a canvas with colored fabric and then try and put the print on the board somehow without making some holes in it... (any ideas?)
 
Get a think piece of paper, measure out the lithos area on it. Then cut it one inch bigger on top and bottom.

Cut the hole in the matte board slightly smaller then the lithos colored area with a matte cutter.

Tape just the top and bottom part of the paper to the back of the matte board, slide the litho in.



Also, when you cut your board, if the boarder is going to be one inch (as an example) make the bottom 1 and a fourth inch. The human eye shrinks things at the bottom when we look at them, so the picture will forever look short if you don't.


Then you can tape or glue the board to the canvas.

If you'd like I can give you about 1000 other ways to help I'm just doing a reallllllllllly long homework project so i am just popping in and put lol. i can privde picture helsp tommorow too if you'd like.
 


Brilliant! Hahaha! Thank you!!!c
 
Maybe I could glue some flat back thumb tacks to the matte frame then put it on the canvas that way to avoid messy glue, and unsturdy tape. PLUS I could take it off easily!! I have some extra pin backs that should work with the thumb tacks so they wont fall off the canvas.
 
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