This canvas had a beautiful, yellow, and orange pear painted on it. The canvas hung in my kitchen. A few years ago, I repurposed the canvas and created a “gather” sign to hang in my themed modern farmhouse home.
Doing a refresh in a few spaces and decided to update the gather sign once again.
Out with the canvas, and I went with a grayish/black metal, glass frame from HomeGoods for $29.99. That is typically more than I would normally pay for this type of project, but I had these frames on-hand for a different project that I have not done yet so I decided to put it to use now.
Anyhow, I searched Etsy for a digital download of a gather print I liked. I paid $5. The Etsy seller even made the image high resolution for free, so I could print to poster size, 24×36. Then I sent the digital print to Walgreens for printing.
Walgreen’s Photo Center often has 50% off printing promo codes. If you do not see a promo code displayed on the screen for your project, wait. Printing a 24×36 inch poster sized print is normally $32.99. I paid $16.49 plus tax.
Tips:
- Find inexpensive frames from Dollar Tree, Amazon, HomeGoods, etc.
- Find digital art or prints on Etsy from sellers with a style you are looking for.
- Find art on art.com and society6.com.
- Use Walgreens or a similar print shop to print your digital art or print.
- Always use a promo code to save money.
My gather sign refresh cost $21.49.
Did you know about this printing hack? Have you used Etsy, art.com, or society6 to print art or digital prints? Where do you typically buy your frames?
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