How to decorate a photo frame with your own hands?

It's hard to find a house that does not have a big album or a box of photos. We all like to touch them from time to time, to look through, remembering the most important life moments. But there are such photos that are especially dear to us. In the photo store you can buy ready-made frames and insert the most favorite pictures in them. But it's much nicer to decorate it yourself. Today we learn how to decorate a photo frame with our own hands, make it truly charming, beautiful, original. To do this, consider the most successful, simple in terms of performance ideas.

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How to decorate a photo frame in a vintage style?

Even in our time actively developing technologies it is absolutely irrelevant to store photos on a flash drive or in an album. Therefore, many are interested in how to decorate the frame yourself, so that it would be worthy to become a fringing of the most expensive pictures of the heart. You can make several original frames at once, arrange them on shelves or compose beautifully on the wall. But first thing is to decide on the option of decor, tune in to creative work.

Below is a master class, for which you need a note paper or a picture with notes printed on the printer.

Important! Using a simple musical note to decorate it, it is desirable to grow old. This is easy, the leaves fall into a bowl with strong tea, dried, then ironed. As a result, you will get a perfectly aged paper.

For work prepare:

• Ready frame, if you just decided to decorate it.
• Several pieces of cardboard.
• Cardboard rectangle for the foot.
• Tea bag used.
• A piece of gauze.
• Lace ribbon.
• Adhesive PVA.
• Pencil.
• Ruler.
• Matches or wooden toothpicks.

Next, we decorate the frame for photos with our own hands, clearly following the diagram:

1. You can use the shop frame or make it yourself from two pieces of cardboard and a rectangular leg. It is necessary to take a piece of cardboard, on it to measure the dimensions of the frame, about 16 by 21 cm, or less. On the top piece, you should note the window where the photo will be, then cut it. At the inner corners we pass through glue, then we glue both pieces of cardboard. We paste the finished frame with a sheet of paper.
2. Now we will decorate our frame with roses, made from tea bags. It can be roses of black, brown, pink shade - it all depends on what tea you drank the day before. First we take a bag, cut it, take out everything that is left inside. From one package you will get four strips, which should be dried. Then it is necessary to bend the ends of the strips, roll up the roses, while tightly tightening them in a spiral.
3. We collect from ready-made roses a vintage bouquet using matches or toothpicks. We wrap it with a bandage or gauze, stained with strong brewing. Scissors cut off from the bouquet all unnecessary, glaze with glue.

The main elements of the decor are ready! You can make them as long as you want.

Important! Add bouquets can be ribbons, buttons, keys. The most important thing is to make sure that every detail is exceptionally vintage.

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How to decorate a photo frame with pasta?

Your interior can decorate one more original frame, decorated with improvised materials. Also in the decor will be used used sticks from ice cream or wooden medical spatulas.

Important! Such frames are ideal for small pictures.

Prepare the required materials:

• Medical spatulas or ice cream sticks.
• Macaroni.
• Lacquer.
• Adhesive PVA.
• A beautiful napkin or sheet music.
• Acrylic paint is white and golden in color.
• A piece of cardboard that matches the dimensions of the frame.

Then follow the simple instructions in which you step by step describe how to decorate the wooden frame for photos with your own hands:

1. Take 16 sticks or spatulas to decorate the frame.
2. Glue them together.
3. Top on the frame glue with glue pasta.
4. Color the product white.
5. Glue a napkin or music paper, walk on top of it with a sponge dipped in golden paint.
6. Coat the frame, leave for a day to dry.

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Other options for decorating the photo frames

In fact, if you look, you can find a lot of ideas how to make a frame for photos with your own hands. What just do not think of the wizards, which only the details, materials, devices do not use for this. This can be an organza, cardboard remnants, felt, polymer clay, children's toys, volumetric pendants, popular decor techniques. Naturally, you should consider each method separately.

Polymer clay

This material is incredibly easy to use, it allows you to create your own hands a variety of elements for the decoration of photo frames. With its help, you can make an incredibly beautiful floral decor, which is ideal for wedding photos.

Important! In addition to flowers, you can make small candies, cakes, horns with ice cream, fruits, berries. Then decorate them with a ready frame with a photo of the child for example. Mosaic made of clay, looks stylish, beautiful, up-to-date.

Mosaic

It looks great decor of the photo frame with your own hands, made of the same polymer clay, only baked in the form of a mosaic.

Important! Also, you can make a mosaic of plastic, glass, ceramics, give it any shape, give preference to any color.

With ready-made pieces of the mosaic, the entire surface of the frame can be laid out, the main thing at the same time is to use a flat baguette to make it more convenient to glue it.

The presented variety of ways of registration of frames once again confirms the fact that you can draw ideas from anywhere - from the Internet, glossy magazines or on thematic forums.

Lego constructors

To implement this idea, in principle, you can any designer, not necessarily just the original Lego. The main thing - that it consisted of a large number of identical in size rectangular or square parts.

Important! To decorate a child's room with such an original frame, it is better to use bright colors. But in fact, even in the living room, this stylish frame will find its place.

The parts are glued to it using a special thermal glue. But preliminary the surface is degreased, only then it is possible to begin to create.

Decoupage technique

Using the now popular decoupage technique, you can decorate the photo frame in many different ways, in particular:

• Using special cards for decoupage.
• Ordinary napkins.
• Beautiful images or favorite photos, printed on the printer, then fixed with a varnish.
• The whole surface of the frame is either fragmented.
• With the help of texture pastes to decorate, as they are able to simulate snow, masonry, other interesting effects.
• Through the elements of the sweat.
• Staining with acrylic paints.

Scrap paper

This is a special paper designed to work in the scrapbooking technique. The framing of the frames for photographs with their own hands with its help is done by gluing it with PVA glue on a wooden base. But in order for this product to last as long as possible, it is necessary to observe the following condition during its manufacturing: from top to cover the frame only with a colorless matte or glossy varnish.

Important! Another incredibly simple idea is to arrange a frame with a geographical map, then top to protect the decor with lacquer.

Voluminous Suspension Systems

What can be made of a frame without glass? This can be an ideal edging for your favorite, most vivid photos, if you decorate it with glass, metal or plastic pendants. As a result, you get a fashionable effective frame, and you will not find the second such anywhere.

Important! You can start not only the suspension, you can also use beads, beads, rhinestones. The finishing of the largest parts begins, then the remaining space is filled with small elements.

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As it turned out, it's not necessary to be a professional designer or a seamstress for an independent decor of frames. Suffice it to find suitable materials, small things lying around the house, shells brought from the holiday, unnecessary ornaments, that is, practically anything.