Money Saving Tips - Creating Decorative Picture Frames!...
Frames for your favourite photos are not particularly cheap, unless you purchase clip frames, which are available in most places. Often you find that you do not like what is available for your picture in the correct size.
So folks, join me and have a go! If you can do one, you can go on to make more, and just look at the satisfaction this could bring you.
There are very few items for you to purchase, which keeps the cost down. However, it is safe to say the average person would be happy to receive one as a gift. This being so, it should encourage you to go on to make others in different sizes.
What will I require to get started? Surprisingly little really! A piece of wood for your base, 20.5cm x 21.5cm. You could use hardboard. An acetate sheet which needs to be of the same size as your picture, or a thin sheet of plastic, acrylic silk paint, Rekar glue, your picture, a No. 10 paintbrush and a quantity of normal wooden spring pegs. When you choose your picture, keep in mind it needs to be suitably sized in comparison to the frame.
Where do I start on this project? First of all, I suggest that you choose somewhere with a nice flat surface to work on. Make sure that your picture is a suitable size to fit the frame. Take your piece of wood and then centralise your photo or picture on to this. You could mark the wood with a pencil dot at the four corners of your picture. Then, with your brush, glue the photo to the wood.
Cover the picture with your sheet of acetate, which needs to be the same size. The next step now is to take your pegs. Carefully take one and holding the bottom of it pull the base of both sides in different directions. One forward and one back, so that it separates the peg and remove the spring. All you should be left with now are the two pieces of wood.
Continue doing more pegs until you think you have a sufficient amount to go round the outside edge of the wood and two inner rows. How you group them is an important factor. So I am suggesting that you make a start by working down the sides starting on the left. Start from the top and work downwards. The pegs need to lie on their backs so that the jagged side is up. The thinnest and the longest part of the peg at the top. It will probably take between three to four pegs for this side.
We now move to the centre row of pegs and the pattern formation. Starting this time with the thick, gripping part of the peg, touching the top, still with the flat side down. The final inside row is done exactly the same way as the first row. Once you have the pattern complete and copied on the right side, it is time to stick them carefully in position. I do stress, not all pegs are always a uniform size, so it could be you have to cut them to fit the wood. Personally, I would leave it to dry with an object of weight on it.
We move on now to the foot of our wood frame and we are going to lay the pegs across this time. Start on the left, with the bulky part of the peg touching the side of the frame. Hence the middle row will start with the long thin part, and the last row with the bulky edge.
Repeat this at the top now. When all this is complete and thoroughly dried, you can then paint the pegs in orange or a colour of your choice. This should not take that long to dry. Any dried flowers can then be stuck to your frame.
I most likely would want to paint my side edges, so personally, I would stick together a few of the leftover pegs and have these so that they just touch the frame. This would make it possible then to paint along with my brush. - 2361
So folks, join me and have a go! If you can do one, you can go on to make more, and just look at the satisfaction this could bring you.
There are very few items for you to purchase, which keeps the cost down. However, it is safe to say the average person would be happy to receive one as a gift. This being so, it should encourage you to go on to make others in different sizes.
What will I require to get started? Surprisingly little really! A piece of wood for your base, 20.5cm x 21.5cm. You could use hardboard. An acetate sheet which needs to be of the same size as your picture, or a thin sheet of plastic, acrylic silk paint, Rekar glue, your picture, a No. 10 paintbrush and a quantity of normal wooden spring pegs. When you choose your picture, keep in mind it needs to be suitably sized in comparison to the frame.
Where do I start on this project? First of all, I suggest that you choose somewhere with a nice flat surface to work on. Make sure that your picture is a suitable size to fit the frame. Take your piece of wood and then centralise your photo or picture on to this. You could mark the wood with a pencil dot at the four corners of your picture. Then, with your brush, glue the photo to the wood.
Cover the picture with your sheet of acetate, which needs to be the same size. The next step now is to take your pegs. Carefully take one and holding the bottom of it pull the base of both sides in different directions. One forward and one back, so that it separates the peg and remove the spring. All you should be left with now are the two pieces of wood.
Continue doing more pegs until you think you have a sufficient amount to go round the outside edge of the wood and two inner rows. How you group them is an important factor. So I am suggesting that you make a start by working down the sides starting on the left. Start from the top and work downwards. The pegs need to lie on their backs so that the jagged side is up. The thinnest and the longest part of the peg at the top. It will probably take between three to four pegs for this side.
We now move to the centre row of pegs and the pattern formation. Starting this time with the thick, gripping part of the peg, touching the top, still with the flat side down. The final inside row is done exactly the same way as the first row. Once you have the pattern complete and copied on the right side, it is time to stick them carefully in position. I do stress, not all pegs are always a uniform size, so it could be you have to cut them to fit the wood. Personally, I would leave it to dry with an object of weight on it.
We move on now to the foot of our wood frame and we are going to lay the pegs across this time. Start on the left, with the bulky part of the peg touching the side of the frame. Hence the middle row will start with the long thin part, and the last row with the bulky edge.
Repeat this at the top now. When all this is complete and thoroughly dried, you can then paint the pegs in orange or a colour of your choice. This should not take that long to dry. Any dried flowers can then be stuck to your frame.
I most likely would want to paint my side edges, so personally, I would stick together a few of the leftover pegs and have these so that they just touch the frame. This would make it possible then to paint along with my brush. - 2361
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