Line up your frame with the border of the underlying kit. Step 3: Once your canvas has all the wrinkles out, lay it face down on your flat surface. Make sure you iron face down to prevent any of the lines and numbers from smudging! For tips and tricks on the best way to iron your canvas, check out our how-to here. You can get them out with an iron on high with a very small bit of steam. Put the now assembled frame, paints, brushes, and anything else included in your kit over to the side. Step 1: Lay out your assembled frame and canvas onto a flat surface. Once everything is securely in, you should be able to straighten out the frame so each of the bars forms a 90 degree angle. Once this is ready, add the final piece of the wooden frame so that you complete the rectangle. Step 3: Connect the other short piece so you have 3 parts of the frame together. Once the 4th piece is added the frame will come together. It's okay if the pieces are not perfectly perpendicular at this point.
Each piece of wood from our frames come with pre-cut grooves so no tools are necessary. Step 2: Connect the first two frames by sliding the corner of a longer and shorter piece into one another. Put the thumb tacks over to the side until the DIY frame is assembled. Step 1: Lay out your frame and thumb tacks on a flat surface.
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Simply slip a thumbtack through the canvas and into the wood, while pulling each side taught! Before you know it, you'll have a perfectly stretched canvas!įollow the steps below to see exactly how these are done: Part 1: How to Assemble the DIY Frame/Stretcher Bars The wood is made of soft fibers that don't require nails or staples. Stretching a canvas can be daunting at first, but it's a lot easier than it seems! Our DIY stretcher bars are specifically designed to stretch canvas without the need for any tools! The 4x stretcher bars are pre-cut, and the notches are built so that the wood pieces slip perfectly into one another. How do you stretch and frame a paint by number canvas using DIY stretcher bars?