Have you got a loose Painting by numbers canvas? Would you like it framed? Here we show you how easily you can do it yourself.

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Hi guys, It's Olivia from Gradart here. 

Today we are going to see how to frame a paint by numbers canvas.

We’ll do it from scratch, cutting the wooden bars ourselves.

But if you have a frame ready to use you can skip this first part and jump to the following section where we mount and stretch the canvas on the frame.

Alright, let’s start. 

To fit this paint by numbers kit, we need a 50 cm by 40 cm frame, or 16 by 20 inches.

So we are going to leave two of the bars at 40 cm.

And the other two 50 cm, right? 

Well, not really.

We also need to consider the width of the bars. 

In this case 2.7 cm

We need to take away that figure from each side, or in other words, we need to subtract 5.4 from the total, 50 cm and leave the bars at 44.6.

So the total length will remain 50 cm

Like this paint by numbers kit we have here at hand. 

Alright, let’s see our friend David in action.

We mark 40 cm, as we said before. 

On both bars. 

Here we have two 1m bars, so we can cut from both sides.

46.6 cm this time. 

We used jack and a saw.

If you don’t have the appropriate tools, you can try to get them cut in the same DIY store where you bought them, although that’s not something available everywhere.

Sometimes you can buy, let’s say a 3 m bar, they can cut it exactly how you want it, there and then for an additional fee or sometimes even free of charge.

Let’s confirm they are the right size. 

We’ll use a stapler to fix the bars together.

If you can, use a square to align them. 

Regarding the width of the bar, anywhere from 1.5 cm would be ok, perhaps the best option would be to have it between 2.5  and  3 cm wide.

And thickness, we like it around 2 cm, probably 1.5. 

Here we have one side finished. 
 
Let’s flip it around.

And magically get the other side done.

Great. 

So this is the canvas we are framing, it’s our design the dog.

Take a look at our website if you fancy it. 

We are marking the corners to have a reference to centre the frame on it.

We staple one side. 

And then stretch, and staple the other sides.

It’s very important to stretch it properly, otherwise once hang, the canvas will look loose and you will see waves on the surface.

Almost done, let’s see how it looks so far.

Let’s see now how to finish the job. 

Be patient if it doesn’t turn out well after the first attempt, it may not be easy to do the first time.

Try it again,  and again as many times as you need until the corner looks nice and tidy, from the front and sides.

Don’t worry too much  how it looks on the reverse as it will be facing the wall.

Once you are happy with it, you can staple it and repeat the process with the other corners.

Done. 

Here we have the back of the frame finished.

As you can see the edges are white. 

We could’ve made the frame 1 or 2 cm shorter, so the painted area would go around the edge.

But we didn’t, so we had to paint them over.

Good job David.

Thanks for watching. 
 

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