Puzzle Hanging Craftiness

Have you ever put a puzzle together, glued it with puzzle glue and then mounted it to a board, only to have it continually fall of the wall because it's just too darn heavy for those 3M mounting strips?

Well I have, and unfortunately using nails in my walls is an impossibility, they are old adobe covered in old plaster which just chunks off pieces of wall when I try to put a nail into it.  So I use the 3M mounting strips, the only problem is that eventually they fall off the wall because it's just to heavy.  Well I had a light bulb moment the other day!

You will need:

A Puzzle

2 pieces of posterboard

contact paper - doesn't have to be expensive or pretty

puzzle glue or decoupage or your elmers and water mixture

First layout one piece of posterboard and put your puzzle together on it. 

When your puzzle is complete then place the second posterboard on top and quikly flip it over so that the underside is now your top. 

Remove the posterboard from the top and now cut out your contact paper to fit the size of your puzzle.  Apply the contact paper to the back of your puzzle.  

When completed you will notice that your puzzle is flexible (stop here if you have a fancy schmancy curved wall you want to hang it on)

otherwise flip the puzzle right side up and begin gluing it.

Once glue is dry you will note that your puzzle is now stiff and ready to hang using the 3M mounting strips!  Without all that extra weight from mounting the puzzle to a board or frame.