Trim the edges of the diamond art so they extend out about 2 inches from the edge of the canvas. Cutting through the diamond art canvas with a steel ruler and an X-acto knife. Next, we want to ...

The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame Eli Wilner. Chronicle Books, $60 (204pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-2070-7 ...

The frame is the "mother holding its child,” says the Smithsonian's Martin Kotler. Many frames are works of art in their own right—and deserve to be seen as such.

Katy Moran, who shows with Stuart Shave’s Modern Art, makes her frames integral to her paintings, covering them with the pigments that spill beyond the canvas.