How to make picture mounts

Watch this video to learn how to make your own mounts for framing prints and artwork. My husband and I have a slowly growing gallery wall and I have made all our mounts myself to give total flexibility over which prints can go in which frames. DIY mounts allow you to put prints in frames that don't have matching proportions!
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Links & info:
- craft knife (affiliate): amzn.to/2JLU0sj
- card - I recommend around 220gsm: www.hobbycraft...
- frames from Desenio - perfect size for postcards with a mount: desenio.co.uk/...

[@lindabest9758]

What a great tutorial. I bought a mount cutting tool a few years ago and just couldn’t seem to figure it out. Ended up going to a framers and it was really expensive. I have some prints to go in my bathroom and I’m definitely going to use your method. genius.!

[@valeriegehling4358]

Just like I made one yesterday!

[@georgepatrickbennett7412]

Love this...I have just managed to mount several of my small watercolour paintings thanks to you...didn't know I had it in me and hey, saved a lot of money too. Thank you so much 😊

[@brendadavies3942]

Thank you I’ve just made a mount following your video and I’m delighted xxxx

[@gibmattson1217]

Thanks. So helpful 😁

[@lisapickersgill427]

Fantastic tutorial. Many thanks for sharing this useful video. Will be making lots of these for my artwork 🙂🙂🙂

[@LizzieB]

Yay, I’m so glad you found it useful!

[@georgemacdonald5282]

Hiya, when you cut out the mount it would be better to hold the ruler on the other side of the pencil line, as its easier to see the line and if the knife slips you would only be cutting on the side that you dont need.

[@pravinmedia8inproduction406]

Wow ,what brillant ways to save money . Thanks for useful advice.

[@Elliott8gould]

Thanks for this! I tried all sorts with a print that didn’t fit the frame. This was so helpful! 😊

[@aparnapatil7738]

Wonderful

[@oliverhill113]

Thank you for your very well produced video. Very helpful !👍🙂

[@prithvi7752]

Thanks for the video..I was browsing for diy picture mount and found your video... This was useful..thanks a lot ❤️.... Sending love from India🇮🇳🙏🏼

[@LizzieB]

My pleasure 😊

[@dianawhitehill919]

Comes out so well…thank you!

[@suelisocallaghan]

Hi Lizzie, thanks a million. That was very helpful!!

[@UKGogglebox]

Really helpful video, thank you!

[@brendadouglas9833]

Well done. I very much wish to follow your idea. Thanks

[@michaellyne8773]

Thank you for sharing your fabulous tutorial, very interesting, I am lazy lol I bought some mounts from wilko ages back and I scan the mounts and print them out onto 300gsm card and have a 7x5 photo mount. Similar to the original mount. Thank you again for your knowledge, which was beautifully presented. Have a great day. 🙂

[@johnmalcolm9980]

Instead of playing around until the margins are equal, measure the card, subtract the desired measurement of exposed picture and divide by two . What I was looking for was how to bevel the edges.

[@helenjones5693]

Thank you 💞. I have saved lot of cash to mount my 3 pics on my wall

[@helengannon8855]

Very clever. You've a creative eye 🌸

[@LizzieB]

Thank you Helen!

[@carlahumphrey6258]

Loved this tutorial. Off subject I love your shirt. Remember when you first showed it. Couldn't remember specific details. Tried to find it in playlist and couldn't. Do you still have the video up? Thanks

[@stevetrow8989]

Thanks for this. All I need now is to get the card and maybe a craft knife (unless there’s one buried away somewhere in our house 🙏)

[@taran1983]

A craft knife buried somewhere is disturbing lol

[@janethunt4037]

Thank you for the detailed video. I bought some postcards at the Van Gogh Museum and want to frame them without spending a lot of money (which I did 30 years on postcards from Paris). What kind of paper did you use for the mount?

[@lastlegstanding9620]

In the video, you show a picture on your wall with a white mount and a black small border around the picture, how did you do that?

[@turkeyphant]

lol why would you "play around" to work out the spacing instead of just working it out precisely?

[@airyrelic43]

I think she meant play around as in move the print around until you have it right in the middle with equal space on the top and bottom.

[@turkeyphant]

@@airyrelic43 I know that's what she meant. Hence me asking the question I asked.

[@IGiveUpAsWell]

@@airyrelic43 Easier to put the print at one end, measure overlap at the other end and divide by two.

[@jamesaldrine2235]

2:40

[@PreNeanderthal]

Better to use a metal rule, rather than a plastic one, otherwise, if the craft knife has a half-decent blade, you finish up taking small slivers of plastic out of your rule.

[@terrypresna3941]

As an Artist… please know in this video… you are NOT “mounting” a picture (mounting is laying, securing and “floating” a picture on a background). What you’ve actually done in this video is you’ve “cut” a mat, a “paper mat” for the picture and “matted” the picture on a background.

[@MrsTigerbalm]

Terry, in the UK, these are indeed called ‘mounts’. In the USA they are called ‘mats’. The term isn’t wrong, it’s different! Thus we have ‘mounting’ in UK and ‘matting’ in USA. There you go, bilingual! 😊

[@zzzbbbooo]

@@MrsTigerbalm They are called mounts in Australia too.

[@MrsTigerbalm]

@@zzzbbbooo That’s interesting! Hope Terry sees this! 😊 - and Lizzie of course!

[@LegionarioCruel]

Corners never look good when you use a cutter. It works on thin paper like the one on the video, but not in thicker material, something that would look like actual matboard...