For my younger sis Jenna Mae's 21st birthday, we ordered this original, signed print called Bird No. 6 from one of her favorite watercolor artists, Geninne.
The print traveled all the way from Mexico and finally arrived this weekend.
Jeremy and I went to Michaels to buy matte board. We couldn't find anything on the shelves that made the image "pop" (and really, Michaels has an extremely limited selection of matte board outside of their frame shop), so we decided to ask the frame shop if they would sell us anything out of their backroom.
Sure, they said.
We were able to flip through the frame shop's sample pieces and found a beautiful, textured, rust-colored matte board that we loved. The frame shop sold us a LARGE piece for just $13.99.
If you want do the mental math, a comparable custom framing job for one piece at Michaels would cost about $75.
Instead, we got an abundance of matte board that we can use for at least two more projects ($13.99) + two frames (on sale two for $20) + the print for ($30).
In other words, we doubled our ouput for about $10 less.
What do you think of the finished product?
love it, Katie!!!! looks great and I have a thing for birds, too :)
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