Any gift today can be purchased at the store, fortunately, there is no shortage of goods in the country. But with the abundance of various things on sale, a large number of people come to the desire to craft something on their own, so that things turn out to be original, individual and unusual. So, an excellent gift or decoration of your interior can be a photo frame with your own hands, ideas for creating which can be found below.
Cardboard
One easy way to frame a photo is to create a cardboard frame. For a standard
photo size, you will need a regular A4 sheet of any color of cardboard, depending on the subject of the photo. In the center of the cardboard, the photo is glued or threaded into pre-cut corners. Now you need to decorate it all. Almost everything that comes to hand can serve as material - clippings from magazines, beads, beads, buttons, pebbles, sand, colored paper, feathers ... The list can be endless. The main thing is to maintain the style of the frame and photograph in one key.
Magazine Pages
An interesting photo frame made by yourself from magazine, newspaper or notebook pages can be interesting. It will be based on cardboard or other thick paper. You need to take a sheet slightly larger than the photo itself, cut a hole in the middle of the sheet to fit the photo. Now it’s worth decorating the frame itself. To do this, you need to take prepared sheets of paper and multi-colored threads. Each leaf is curled into a tube, not too dense, but not wide, wrapped with a thread along the entire length. It is important to correctly measure the length of each tube, because they will be glued to cardboard as a frame for the photo. Many of the resulting rolls should now be glued to a cardboard, attach a leg to the back of the frame and stick a photo on the back. The original photo frame is ready.
Decorate a simple frame
If you need a frame for a
photo, you can decorate it
with your own hands , taking as a basis a ready-made simple frame. To do this, you may need colored paper or fabric, as well as little things for decoration. First, the frame is fitted with the selected material, and after that it is decorated. The decor should match the theme of the photo. If this is a frame for a photograph from the sea, you can decorate it with small shells, sand and colored paper or newspaper clippings. If the photo is romantic, the frame is simply wrapped in a delicate color with a cloth and a small bow is glued in the corner. If the photo is from a disco, you can decorate it with thematic clippings, as well as various drawings or lipstick prints.
Flower frame
Those who wish can get a photo frame made with their own hands of ordinary artificial flowers. To do this, you will need a ready-made frame or a base of thick paper, on which the color heads will be mounted. It is important here to choose the flowers of one or combined colors, so that the frame does not turn out too colorful. You can attach decorative elements with glue. That's all, the original flower frame for your own photo is ready.
Frame for several photos.
If you want to place several pictures, but you don’t want to make multiple frames for your own photo, you can kill several birds with one stone - create a frame for more photos. To do this, you need to make a rather large frame from the tree, paint it in the desired color, stretch the threads into several levels, onto which, using paper clips, small clothespins or binders, the photo will be attached, like laundry. This frame will definitely appeal to guests and residents of the house, because it will be unusual and roomy.