Framing a t-shirt (on the cheap) REDUX

In my post “Framing a t-shirt (on the cheap)” I used an acrylic box frame to frame a t-shirt. The acrylic frame worked well but admittedly it was a bit haphazard and the masking-tape backing (which held the t-shirt in) was starting to come off. So while perusing the local Michaels for something unrelated I came across some shadow boxes and thought that they might work better.

This is the 8×10 shadow box frame I got from michaels, it goes for ~$14.00 but it was on sale for ~$9.00; either way it’s still inexpensive. Notice how tall the sides are - you will see the benefit of this later on.

A piece of foam core was cut to fit inside the frame:

The foam core was then placed inside the t-shirt and test fitted in the frame. Note that you may need to cut the foam core a little bit smaller to compensate for the t-shirt:

The high sides of the shadow box frame allow the rest of the shirt to be stuffed inside the frame:

Before the final fit a lit roller was used to remove any fuzzes from the t-shirt:

Gave the glass of the frame a good cleaning too:

After the final stuffing the the back of the frame was put in place:

Final result:

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