How would you fix this picture frame?

cut a piece of thin plywood and tack it to the back of the frame

Is the frame metal or wood? If it’s metal, you can buy more clips at a framing shop. If it’s wooden, depending on the size, you can do as steve6 suggests, or glue cardboard or brown kraft paper on the back (paper bag would work). You often see paper on the back of older framed prints.

It’s wood. Glue would never have even occurred to me…genius!

Duct tape fixes everything!

@Alfreda: would you use wood glue, regular glue, or something else?

I agree duct tape is your easy answer here.
Regular glue is fine, I could be wrong but I was under the impression wood glue is for wood being glued to wood, and while it’s paper…I dunno just whatever. Regular glue will work fine.

@asmonet: If it was just going on the wall I’d agree, but I’m hoping to gift this guy when I’m done and want it to be minimally presentable… :)

Heavy paper in a neutral or matching tone is your answer then. Glue it well and as close to the edges as you can to prevent the corners or sides of it tearing or rolling up. You want it to be as flat against the frame as possible.

@asmonet: Well, now you’ve gotten me thinking.

I trimmed the print so that it fit exactly up against the edges of the frame and doesn’t need a mat, but it is rolling up. Can I just like, stuff more paper bags back there to get the print flush against the glass part of the frame? (Does that make sense?)

Yeah, you can. Some thin foam board from Michael’s might work better and be lighter altogether considering the depth.

Oh! And plus with foam board and an X-Acto Knife you can just cut strips for along the edge, so it’s even lighter! Put them in the frame, tape the corners together so they stay put, put glue (or double sided tape) on the top and add your heavy stock backing paper, let it dry, then glue the whole thing to the frame that give you paper with a built in buffer for the print.

Not sure it would work, but you can always rip it off and try again with a full sheet of foam.

You are a genius. Fluther is amazing. I would seriously have had no idea how to fix this.

haha, i really like crafts.

I would seriously skip the glue deal if you haven’t already done it, but use the Foamcore suggestion: flat, light, cheap, and non-rotting (paper bags, maybe not so great).

Then get your putty knife, or failing that, your non-Phillips screwdriver, and drive in some glazier’s points which you buy in a small lifetime-supply-size box at the hardware store.
These will be self-explanatory when you look at them, but ask the person at the hardware store to show you if you want to be sure. They’re designed to hold panes of glass into old-fashioned single-pane windows and for this job too. Put in a point every four inches and you’ll have something very solid.

@susanc: I didn’t even think of that, good suggestion. :)

@asmonet: I think she’d be happy with this approach. It’s pretty classic.
There are higher-tech framing-point guns out there too, but the individual points are
perfect for occasional use. by now she’s probably got it all glued up

@susanc: Maybe, that is a project though, she might not… oh, niki? Where are ya?

Ah! I’m here. School got in the way of my crafting, so no action has been taken yet!

I will hit Michael’s and Home Depot tonight for foamy thing and glazier’s points, respectively, and will give updates as I attempt to put it all together….

<3 thanks again, ladies!!!

Good luck!

Dammit. I went to Michael’s. Didn’t see foam. Found a brand new, perfectly good frame that I thought was the right size for $10, which seemed way easier. Turns out my brain stored one dimension in inches, and the other in centimeters. Dammit.

Aw :’(
The foam is more like two pieces or poster board with foam in the middle, it’s pretty thin. I’m surprised it wasn’t there. Good luck in any case. :)

Were you looking in the aisle with all the foam stuff? Foam core can usually be found next to the poster boards.

^What she said.