A Day with a Domestic Engineer: Picture Frame

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Clothes Pin Frame

Saturday morning was spent checking out some garage sales. I found this frame and got pretty excited! It's perfect for my new project!! The glass is cracked in the corner, but I don't need it, so no worries!

I ripped of the backing so I could get the picture out.

This frame is going in my baby's room. The walls are three shades of green with pink assessories. I used the spray paint we had left from some other projects in her room. Dark pink first.

Followed by the light pink.

I took sand paper to some areas while the paint was still wet to get this effect.

In place of the picture I added some fun green scrapbooking paper to match the green walls. You could use fabric for this part as well. I used mounting squares, and just attached the paper to the backing that was already part of my frame.

I kept the matting frame and just turned it over. The other side was bright white - just what I needed!! Then, I added some twine for hanging my pictures.

The staples in the back of the frame were perfect for securing the twine.

Next, I added my baby clothes pins and pictures.

I love that I can hold four photos on one frame!! This is such a great addition to Baby Girl's room!!

The "after" is so much better!! I heart garage sales!! :o)

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

St. Patty's Decor

We don't really do much for St. Patty's Day in our house... yet. Our little one isn't quite old enough, but soon, we will get to have fun with all the GREEN and crafts! I wanted to have something for the holiday. So, I made a cute little frame with supplies I already had. My favorite kind of craft - a free one!

You will need:

Picture Frame
Green fabric
Green Scrapbooking paper
Green Ribbon
Hot Glue

To get my clover shapes I just googled "clovers". I opened the image I liked in photoshop and resized it to fit my frame. Then, just trace the images to your scrapbooking paper. I used my Distressed Ink around the edges of the clovers, unfortunately, it's hard to see in the pictures.

Then, I hot glued my frabric to the glass piece from the frame.

Now, just hot glue your clovers to the fabric.

Tip: Apply your hot glue to the back of the clovers and let it dry. Do this a couple times creating a layer of hot glue. When you have your desired space glue your clovers to the fabric and they will "pop out" from the fabric.