Athens Art And Frame

Your diploma is going to arrive in a sealed tube. The best thing before you start is to take your diploma out of the tube. It's going to be very curly and hard to work with. So if you relay it on a flat surface, clean flat surface, put some books on it and let it sit for a few hours or overnight, then you will take a lot of the curl out of the diploma and make it a lot easier to install. The next thing, take a clean flat surface, put a little bit of padding down. I Take your diploma frame. Lay it face down on a padded, clean surface. Take a screwdriver and remove one end of the wire. Take a screwdriver and pop up the bendable tabs on the back and remove the backing and the mat, leaving the glass in place. After you have removed the mat and the backing, take the hinging tape that's provided for you on the wire. Cut it in half. Remove the insert. Take your diploma, lay it down on the backing. Take your hinging tape, which is two-sided. Pull the surface off. Hinge a little bit, covering the back of the diploma, just at the top. Lay your mat back on top. Line it up. Make sure that everything is straight. Put a little pressure on the back of the mat to hold everything in place. You're going to flip the whole thing over and really rub them so that they hold on there very well. The hinges will just be in the top section. Now your diploma is hinged in there. You take the mat and the backing, let it back into the frame, bend your tabs back down. Put your screw back in the hole and tighten. Now your diploma is installed and ready to hang.