do it youself > frame a picture like a boss

this here is one of the gifts we gave to our mom for mother´s day. it is a photo of the four of us taken last christmas. i decided to frame it in a cool vintage frame that i found from a thrift store. it was a cheap present, but has a soul in it and means a lot to mom.

it probably isn´t too hard to figure out how to make one, but i am going to show how i made mine anyway.

WHAT YOU NEED

- photo frame

- photo

- PVA glue

- pretty fabric

- white sheet of paper

- paper or light/thin cardboard for the back

- scissors

this is what my frame looked like..

i tore off the back cover..

..and just took the whole thing apart.

then i picked out one out of my petty fabrics and cut out a piece larger than the frame.

next i set the cardboard piece that was in the frame under the old picture already on the fabric and pretty much just wrapped it in it [glued the corners and edges]..

i glued my photo on the white sheet of paper an cut it so that i would have about half a cm wide edge left. then glued that on the wrapped cardboard piece..

last, i put the whole thing back together! for the back i used watercolour paper, because i didn´t have anything else at that point.

and voila!