What to do with a trimmed loose canvas print?

[Brian1cj]

I just placed my first canvas order for a lab that I decided to try recently. It appears that I was confused as to what I was getting. I thought I was getting a canvas stretched onto a wood frame (not a gallery wrap though). But as you can see, I have a trimmed canvas with no extra material on the sides so I am confused as to how to mount it to anything. I can't just stretch it over a wood frame or I would lose a lot of the photo.

Do any of you order your canvas like this? If so, what is your method to mount it to a frame?

Traditionally I would just mount the wood canvas in its entirety to the frame, screw the clips on, put the paper back on, and that is it.

Am I supposed to glue this to a hard piece of board? Will gluing the canvas wreck the photo?

I thought I was getting something else for $95! :(

http://www.capturedbybrian.com/tmp/canvas.jpg

[Karl Johnston]

Wow 95 $? That's pretty cheap..how big is it? Looks like its at least 20" long. Which lab?

I suppose you could frame it like a regular print, now. Try calling the lab, see if they will have sympathy when you explain what happened (what did your order form say, exactly?) and refund/reprint a stretched canvas.

[Brian1cj]

Ordered it from WHCC $95 for 20x30... not a bad deal, but compared to other labs with the same printer, this price is average, and by "stretched" I assumed it was attached to a wood frame. This leaves me no room for wrapping it because I would cut off parts of the photo that I don't want to. It was meant to be a wedding gift but professional framing at a discounter like hobby lobby is going to be another $65.00.

I'm afraid to glue it to something because I don't want to ruin it because it was a lot of money for my budget anyway. I guess that is my only option though.

[Win]

Is that just the canvas, no backing? If so consider making it a wall hanging.
My wife has asked me to do one of a print in a similar dimension and she'll make a wall hanging for the gallery we display in. She tells me it's a "hot" item today.

Win

[Brian1cj]

Here is what I ended up with. I ended up buying a prefabricated frame and cutting it to size since I could not find any 20x30" frames. Then I attached the canvas to some foamboard that had adhesive on one side. Then I put it in the frame and secured it with screw-in clips. The whole thing was really a pain in the butt and that is the last time I will be ordering loose canvas. I still have a bit of touch up work to fix the corners up a little nicer. I think they will be happy with it though either way since it is a just a gift.

http://www.capturedbybrian.com/tmp/canvas2.jpg
http://www.capturedbybrian.com/tmp/canvas3.jpg

[Karl Johnston]

Looks great! What did you use to cut the print down?

[Brian1cj]

I didn't actually cut the print, I bought a larger frame that was okay on one dimension but too long on the other, so I took a saw to it, glued, restapled, sanded a bit, then touched up with some stain. I affixed the print to some foam board that had an adhesive side. Then I put put the foamboard right in the frame and screwed it in using the clips that you see in the picture.

I gave it to the recipients yeterday... they were thrilled!

[aram535]

I hope you put a glass in there. :-) Looks great.