The Great Frame Up Creve Coeur

01/26/2026

10/28/2025

It's a dreary rainy day in Creve Coeur today, but this cactus painting has us feeling warm and bright!
This colorful painting was brought to us in an ornate gold frame which, while lovely, distracted the eye from the beautiful color and movement in the art. We reframed it in 's Espresso Finn float frame for a clean, finished look which invokes breezy days on the prairie and reconnecting with nature.

09/02/2025

Art brings people together—and so does the ! 💙 
The Great Frame Up is honored to be the Official Framer of this year’s event. We can’t wait to celebrate creativity, culture, and community with you September 5 – 7. Stop by and see us at the fair in the merchandise booth!

05/09/2025

We're wheely into how the frameup for this truck print turned (over and) out. We started with a Spencer frame, then revved up the design with gunmetal gray and black mats from Crescent and Bainbridge and Museum Glass. We don't mean to gas ourselves up too much, but great design is just how we roll!

04/11/2025

We thought that 's Colosseum Moon Gold frame was the perfect choice for this lovely little print!

03/26/2025

As baseball season kicks off, we wanted to share this Babe Ruth frameup we created for a customer a while back! A relative of our customer ran into the Bambino himself on a train in Chicago in 1934 and got his autograph, which was then passed down as an heirloom. We framed it, along with an antique Babe Ruth doll and a portrait of Ruth, in a PFI frame with black-core Crescent mats and TruVue Conservation Clear glass to protect from fading. This design was a home run!

03/25/2025

This beloved vintage dress belonged to a customer's mother and had many memories attached to it. We carefully sewed it down to a glimmery fabric mat (Bainbridge Ivory Shimmer), and framed it in a PFI black shadowbox with a Mantilla gold fillet for a little extra glam! This dress is protected with Conservation Clear Acrylic to keep it runway-ready for years to come.

03/21/2025

When a client brought in this lovely print of his "mantra" (a poem by Rudyard Kipling), we made sure to honor it with a dignified, masculine design. We top mounted the poem on a Black Leather mat with lined sides for added depth, added a silver Mantilla fillet to 's Eiffel bronze frame for a bit of extra brightness, and finished it with Museum Glass!

03/04/2025

We couldn't get enough of the prairie details in this print of "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth. Luckily, we had an extra Palladio frame lying around which was a perfect match in color and texture! We elevated the design with a double mat in 8-ply antique white and finished it with Museum Glass.

02/13/2024

02/08/2024

When a customer brought us this colorful abstract face tapestry, we immediately thought of 's Komodo red frame! We sewed the tapestry down to a Etched Black mat, lined the frame with mat strips, and finished it off with Museum Glass.

02/07/2024

This papyrus art piece dazzles in a Hudson gold frame and Cottage Blue silk mat!