The Great Frame Up Creve Coeur

08/05/2026

This portrait was painted nearly a century ago by our client's ancestor! It was far too beautiful to continue on unframed, so we dressed it up in an Omega Moulding ebony walnut frame with Crescent Brands 🌙 Havana linen and Oil-Rubbed Bronze mats and a Larson-Juhl Sofia bronze fillet. Tru Vue® Museum Glass helps keep the dust and glare off it, so it's ready for another 100 years!

06/30/2026

This print is definitely giving us tropical dreams! Our customer wanted something simple but playful to mimic the print's limited color, so we framed this photo using Nielsen metal mouldings in half Cyber Green and half Graphite.

06/17/2026

This KISS guitar frame-up makes us want to rock and roll all nite!  🎸
This sparkly gold guitar was broken on stage and signed by Paul Stanley. We love a challenge, and this project certainly delivered!
We built a mount to prop up the guitar neck, sewed down the loose strings, and mounted the two pieces of guitar using a combination of non-adhesive materials. The guitar and memorabilia were mounted to black suede and metallic gold mats from Bainbridge and Crescent, and we added a Larson-Juhl gold fillet to the Omega Moulding shadowbox for a bright pop. A special project like this called for Tru Vue® Optium Museum Acrylic. We were made for loving this design!

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!