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Summary: Pick plain picture frame shape so easy to cut. Learn what kind of material to use for a personalized picture frame in this free home crafts video on making a great gift for friends and family.
"Now that our shape has been drawn on the cardboard, for the shape of our picture frame, I'm ready to cut it, so I simply go around the outline that I made. Now I'm using a carton from a box. It's a little thick, it's pretty much the, um, as thick as you can get, and still manage to cut around easily, and to make some different shapes and, and uh different styles of lines going around the picture frame. You don't want to use something too thin, even though it would be much easier to shape and cut, because we want it to be stable. We want it to be nice and sturdy. So we see now, the shape of the picture frame after we've cut around the outer edges. Now, we picked just a plain shape, kind of, just like a wavy, um, wavy shape to it, but this could be made in different, the shape of an image, of an animal, um, depending on who you're giving it to, what you're using it for. So, there's a lot of variation that you can use, when making the shape of your picture frame. So, now I've shown you how to cut around the image that's been drawn on the cardboard, and to make the shape of our picture frame."
eHow Article: How to Cut Picture Frame