How-Tuesday: Embellished Frames with Kayte Terry

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Published on Mar 03, 2009 in Make

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Do you know those various piles of artwork and photographs that you wish you had frames for? Or those various things you’ve collected that are tacked to your wall that kind of make your bedroom or living room wall look like a tattered scrapbook? Why not spice up your home decor with an embellished mat in a frame or a custom fabric frame from scratch? This week Kayte Terry of this is love forever shows us what to do!

Materials Needed for the Embellished Mat

  • The mat from the frame you are using, or one that will fit
  • 1 piece of fabric 2″ wider and taller than your mat
  • Grosgrain ribbon and rick-rack 
  • Needle and thread (optional for making rick-rack flowers)
  • Fabric scissors
  • Spray adhesive
  • Glue gun and glue sticks

Steps for Making Embellished Mat

  1. Spray the front of the mat with spray adhesive. Make sure you do this over newsprint in a well-ventilated area.
  2. Lay your mat out face down on your fabric and center it so that you have 1” of fabric all the way around the mat. Press down on the mat to adhere it to the fabric.
  3. First, you will cover the outside of the mat. Apply a line of hot glue down one edge of the mat 1” from the edge of the mat and from all corners.
  4. Fold the fabric over to the wrong side of the mat and adhere to the hot glue. Repeat for the other three sides. Fold in each corner neatly, like a package, and secure with hot glue.
  5. Make a small cut in the center of the mat with your scissors and carefully cut out the center leaving a 1” overlap of fabric around all sides.
  6. To cover the inner edges of the mat, take your scissors and cut a diagonal slit in the fabric at each inner corner. Cut just to a couple of threads away from the corner of the mat. Fold the fabric back to the wrong side of the mat on each side and secure with a line of hot glue.
  7. To embellish with ribbon, determine where you would like to place the ribbon and carefully hot glue ribbon in place, as desired. You can also make rick-rack flowers like these to further embellish the mats.
  8. Put the mat back in the frame and hang on the wall as desired!

Materials Needed for the Embellished Mat

  • Cardboard
  • Batting
  • Cutting knife
  • Cutting mat
  • 1 piece of fabric 2″ wider and taller than your cardboard
  • Grosgrain ribbon and rick-rack
  • Needle and thread (optional for making rick-rack flowers)
  • Fabric scissors
  • Glue gun and glue sticks

Steps for Making Fabric Frame From Scratch

  1. Cut a piece of cardboard to your desired size with a cutting knife. Also cut a piece of batting to the same size. Hot glue the batting to the cardboard frame.
  2. Lay your fabric out wrong side up. Hot glue the front of the frame to the batting. Flip the frame over and center on the fabric, pressing to adhere.
  3. Follow steps 3 to 7 above to cover the frame in fabric.
  4. Add a rick-rack or ribbon hanger with some hot glue and hang on the wall!

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