Help!! Framing Ayu Posters?

[immel]

That's a very Finnish name, lol.

Never heard of them... oh well, I'll have to keep on looking.

It's about time I frame a few of my posters and put up on my walls... I have 4 and with that kind of huge frame they'll sorta cover the free wall spaces of my entire room, lol.

[ayu1m]

Yep, it is

I don't know if you've heard of Anttila, it's a quite big department store chain and they have stores all over Finland, maybe in Sweden too, don't know lol, they also sell big frames.

[immel]

Maybe up in northern Sweden, no clue, haven't heard of that one either D: ... Maybe if I have time tomorrow I'll pass by a hobby store to check what they have. If not tomorrow I'll do it the day after.

[ayu1m]

Ou, ok ^^ I'm amazed if there aren't any big frames in Stockholm

[immel]

Maybe I'm just a big fat sucker at finding them? :/




I just have to protect my home town!

[ayu1m]

lol you aren't a big fat sucker, you just need to search harder

^^

[HiruNoKaze]

I just went to Michaels and got FIVE poster frames. 24x30, best size for Japanese B2. You get bigger side borders than top and bottom borders, but I think it looks good. They told me all Michaels have the same deals. Go out and get your poster frames! ~$11 with tax. Same value as if you use the weekly 40% off single item Michaels coupon in the LA Times. I dunno if it's ever possible to get more than 40% off poster frames; maybe TH knows. 14th is the last day of the deal.

I'm gonna have awesome Feng Shui...BB + a-nation for yin and the two AT06 posters for yang. Throw in A Best present D for the nostalgic past. Two more poster frames on standby. That's seven total...I don't know if it would be a good idea to buy any more. I could have more posters...but no where to put them up. I'm pretty content, I think these are among the best of the posters. Best for putting on walls. But duuuuude some of those TUKA ones are out of this world...like the B0 ones...<drools uncontrollably> freaking $100 tho...oh oh or the body shot visee ones that are high and narrow. Some of those look sooo good as pics...but probably the aspect ratio isn't the best for walls. Yes, I think this choice of posters works very well for me. I loooove posters...I don't know what's wrong with me lately. Posters are such luxury Ayu items...$65 for four, + $44 for frames, that's about $30 a piece, man... But DAYUM I'd take this over a painting any day. Unless it was a painting of Ayu? Damnit, foiled myself. I wonder how the new posters are gonna turn out. Good posters = drain $$

[stardusties]

haha so the 24x30 frames were 30$?....X_x wew...

lol i was JUST there too xD...but i went for an art project...and i didn't even think about frames ....even the cardboard ones ._.;;;

[HiruNoKaze]

No no the frames are ~$11 each...poster + frame average cost will be ~$30

[evolution7931]

Originally Posted by ayu1m

I've framed my posters. There are few stores here that sell so big ones (these are 60x80cm)



One frame costs around ~$20

I must say, that looks amazing!

[stardusties]

Originally Posted by HiruNoKaze

No no the frames are ~$11 each...poster + frame average cost will be ~$30

oh cool! , could you show me a picture of the ones you got if possible?

[ayu1m]

thx evolution7931, I tried my best

HiruNoKaze only ~$11 hmph.. that's very cheap, I hope they'd have those prices here too <__<

[HiruNoKaze]

Well as far as I know, Michaels only sells one brand of poster frame. I just got the 24x30. There are random pics on the cover like a saxophone player and a surfer. Says "poster frame cadre d'affiche."

[Delirium-Zer0]

Yeah, those are the only poster frames. Aaron Brothers carry the same ones (them & michaels = same company). But they're not bad. Just kinda hard to get the plastic framey-things back on properly on your first try XD Man, i built frames as my job and I had a hard time with those things, lol!

[stardusties]

omg ^^- i finally got my frames from michaels! (gogo black friday cheapness!!!)
i got 3 22x28 frames from less than 30$!!! (i don'
t know why I didn't just get 20x28.../hmm..)

I'll post them as soon as I frame them ^^-!!!

[edit]

and voila~ ...hmm I had to fold down the big ones a bit ...and I'm saving my 3rd big one for the Secret poster ^_^! ...but maybe I'll go out and buy a 24x30...for it.....But these things are soo hard to center!

Any tips?

[Norrel]

Those look so awseome!

I remember you mentioning that earlier today.

[HiruNoKaze]

Oh noes that's why I didn't get the 22x28, they're just short. I regret having bought one of those things, now it's useless. I decided I wanted to preserve the things for longer than a few years so you can see my pics in the post your collection thread.

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=424

Thing is, those poster frames are not acidfree, not UV protected, and the poster hugs the plastic. After Deli told me, I was like...uuuuughhhh I want to be able to admire them even when I'm an old man, time to invest in frames built to protect. I really enjoyed having my BB poster in one of those frames while I was using it though.

[stardusties]

So what exactly did you do?, Did you make them yourself o_o I was reading your post @ the other thread and it's a bit confusing x3~ (seems like you wanted to get it off your chest in one quick rant)

and what exactly is bad about the non-acid free/non-UV protected ones?

[immel]

stardusties, the CDL0405 poster looks way awesome.

Gorgeous collection.

[stardusties]

thanks ..but it's such an awkward poster....where would i put it? ><