Could this scream 1995 a little louder?
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
Maybe if there were a few hearts added (in dusty rose, of course!)
Why do I even have this?
Well, it's the innards of a Goodwill frame that I'm rehabbing. The frame is gonna be fine, but you guys, I don't think there's any hope for the print or the blue mat.
(Totally saving the cream one, though, because that could come in handy.)
I like the blue mat!
Well, if you were my neighbor, I'd give it to you! 😉
Is the reverse side usable?
I don't think so...pretty sure the angles on the mat cuts would be wrong then. I'll check, though! Thanks. 🙂
Maybe try to peel the blue off, and you may have a cream mat under it, with a unique texture! Or, mod podge it, or let your kids mod podge it. Or cover it in gold leaf or spray paint! Gold is so big right now. Or paint it a color. It might be pretty to have a unique mat to frame a very simple black and white photo or line drawing. Anyway, at least let your kids have it 🙂 or give it back to goodwill!
I think the mat with a different picture and a white frame could look cute in a baby boy's room, and the print with a different mat could look cute in a toddler/younger kids room if the child likes kittens.
You could keep and re-use the blue mat by paining over it with acrylics or mod-podge something onto it.
This would fit in perfectly with the decor in my in-laws' house. They built and decorated in the 90s and never really updated. Once they sell I'm sure it will get an update.
Save the blue one too. You can recover it with scrapbook paper or photos (think a collage) OR paint it! I do it all the time!
My sister and niece would love that print...they LOVE cats!
Spray paint the mat white!
Hmmm...could you spray paint the blue mat?
Let the girls at the print with a pair of scissors, they could do a collage with the cat or the basket.
You could paint it any color, but if you painted it the same color as the wall that it will be hanging on then it would appear that the picture under the mat is "floating" in the frame.
aww poor kitty
Save the blue mat! As the others have said, you can paint it or collage on it or mod podge. You can use it as a template to cut another one, albeit without the angled cuts. You can let the kids play with it to put their own artwork in it, just be taping it on the back.
You could cover it with Christmas wrapping paper and put a few magnets on the back and make a refrigerator temporary frame for the children's Christmas art.
I am going to repeat everyone else, but you can paint the blue mat. I have done this with other unusable mats, and it comes out really nicely. The cream one probably won't be useable on its own anyway, since it is probably glued to the blue one. But if you pull them apart, paint the blue, then stick them back together, you have a nice double mat!
I have successfully repainted colored mats using just spray paint. Keep this one for the next time you're spray painting something.
Katy
P.S. Geese with bows would have completed the 1995 look!
Ha ha that's so true about the geese!
Oh, man...I forgot about the geese!
Agreed with Rachel and others- if the mat is a good size for you, it can be spray-painted right along with the frame. I rarely spray paint, but this is something I actually did with a 24x36 dusty rose 80s mat - came out great and saved a bundle over buying a new mat at that size.
You could cover it in burlap or fabric. Guessing you can find a tutorial on Pinterest.
This has nothing to do with your mat but it is an idea I thought you might like and I didn't know how else to share it. As a child I had a kangaroo skirt. If you get one that is several inches too long just turn the bottom up on the the outside of the skirt and do some vertical stitching to make pockets all around the bottom of the skirt. I think your girls would love it as much as I did.
This may be a dumb idea, but could you spray paint the blue mat? or mod-podge fabric on it?
Puuuurrrrrrsonally I think its purrrfect
I love cats so this picture is very cute.