Wall Mounting A Puzzle

After your puzzle is nice and flat it s time to glue it down and some formulas work better than others.

Wall mounting a puzzle.

This rigid board will ensure your puzzle does not warp or fall apart. Your local craft store can help you with dry mounting your puzzle which uses a special backer board that has heat sensitive adhesive that will glue your puzzle to the board instantly. Start with a completed jigsaw puzzle on a flat surface. Pull and tear off two or three pieces of wax.

We prefer liquid glue as an adhesive. Use the wire to hang the puzzle on the wall. Let this dry completely it s best to give it 24 hours. A somewhat rigid backer board will help prevent your puzzle from warping you have two choices for mounting.

Hammer a nail into the wall where you want to hang your puzzle. You now have a hanger on the back of your puzzle. Once the puzzle and mounting material are fully sealed and dry place them in your frame. Pour a light amount of puzzle glue across the short end of the puzzle covering about a 6 inches.

Hook the ends of the wire into each of the holes in the back of the foam board. Select poster board foam board or sturdy cardboard approximately 1 4 inch 6 mm thick and cut a rectangle that can be inserted into your frame this material will provide a backing for the puzzle keeping it flat and in the frame. Since i had only a little mod podge left and no picture frame or anything to mount the jigsaw puzzle to i wasn t sure how i was going to preserve and hang the jigsaw puzzle. When you re ready to begin gluing start on one edge and work glue onto the puzzle covering the top and making sure it gets into all of the cracks.

Line up your puzzle and place it down gently pressing while making sure you don t alter the alignment. How to glue and mount a puzzle for display step 1. Method 1 we generally recommend you find a locally hobby lobby or a similar craft store and ask them to do a dry mounting basically they use a special piece of backer board that has heat sensitive adhesive that will glue your puzzle to the board instantly. Cut a backing material to fit the frame.

To hang your puzzle on the wall we recommend mounting it to a backer board.