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Well, a lot of people use mdf or plywood for the board but I used Gatorboard which is much lighter. It's like foam board but much stiffer. I made a pattern and then used a jigsaw to cut the Gatorboard shape. I have a custom picture framing store with a computerized mat cutter, so I took some clip art flames and numbers and cut it out using double thick mat board.
I then glued the "fall out" of the mat to the Gatorboard (the numbers etc..),
coated it with glue, covered it with the fabric, then pressed the mat board over top of the entire piece to force the fabric around the flames and numbers. After it dried under pressure, I wrapped the fabric around the edges and attached it to the back.
Most people have to cut the numbers etc...out of wood and it's a pain, but the mat cutter did it in about 60 seconds.
Hopefully, this made sense. There are some threads on doing these somewhere on this forum.
I then glued the "fall out" of the mat to the Gatorboard (the numbers etc..),
coated it with glue, covered it with the fabric, then pressed the mat board over top of the entire piece to force the fabric around the flames and numbers. After it dried under pressure, I wrapped the fabric around the edges and attached it to the back.
Most people have to cut the numbers etc...out of wood and it's a pain, but the mat cutter did it in about 60 seconds.
Hopefully, this made sense. There are some threads on doing these somewhere on this forum.
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Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 134
From: quebec canada
Well, a lot of people use mdf or plywood for the board but I used Gatorboard which is much lighter. It's like foam board but much stiffer. I made a pattern and then used a jigsaw to cut the Gatorboard shape. I have a custom picture framing store with a computerized mat cutter, so I took some clip art flames and numbers and cut it out using double thick mat board.
I then glued the "fall out" of the mat to the Gatorboard (the numbers etc..),
coated it with glue, covered it with the fabric, then pressed the mat board over top of the entire piece to force the fabric around the flames and numbers. After it dried under pressure, I wrapped the fabric around the edges and attached it to the back.
Most people have to cut the numbers etc...out of wood and it's a pain, but the mat cutter did it in about 60 seconds.
Hopefully, this made sense. There are some threads on doing these somewhere on this forum.
I then glued the "fall out" of the mat to the Gatorboard (the numbers etc..),
coated it with glue, covered it with the fabric, then pressed the mat board over top of the entire piece to force the fabric around the flames and numbers. After it dried under pressure, I wrapped the fabric around the edges and attached it to the back.
Most people have to cut the numbers etc...out of wood and it's a pain, but the mat cutter did it in about 60 seconds.
Hopefully, this made sense. There are some threads on doing these somewhere on this forum.
