How to make a frame with your own hands?

To find a beautiful frame for a photograph, embroidery or picture is another quest. How many shops will have to go around to successfully select a frame suitable for design, size and shade? There is a good option - to figure out how to make a frame with your own hands and deal with this process personally. Since the frame for a photograph of wood is beyond the power of every needlewoman, we offer you simple options. Detailed workshops on making frames can be found in this article.

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Cardboard frame

Everyone can make a cardboard frame with their own hands - this does not require a lot of time, special skill, or any special materials.

For work you will need:

• Cardboard is better corrugated.
• Fabric or paper for decoration - to choose from.
• Buttons, beads, rhinestones, shells and other decorative accessories for decoration.
• Glue brush, PVA glue.
• Stationery knife and scissors.
• Ruler and simple pencil.

Important! It is not necessary to make a photo frame of a rectangular shape - round, oval, irregular in shape, with curls and bends also look very beautiful and original. Here everything will depend only on your imagination.

Sequencing:

1. Put the photograph in the center of the cardboard sheet, circle the photograph with a pencil.
2. Inside the resulting rectangle, draw another one with sides 1 cm smaller (this will be a “window” for the photo).
3. Draw a rectangle outside the circled photo - these will be the margins of the frame (they should be equal in width).
4. Cut out the front of the frame.
5. Circle it on another piece of cardboard.
6. Draw a rectangle inside the one that turned out, with sides 2 cm smaller - this will be the back.
7. Cut her out.
8. Determine how much fabric or paper you need to decorate the craft, and cut it with such a margin so that you can fold the edges inward.
9. Apply PVA glue to the front of the frame and glue the prepared paper to it, then let the glue dry thoroughly.
10. Glue the back of the frame to the tucked edges of the decor material - do not glue the side or top sides so that you can stick the photo there.
11. Decorate the finished product by gluing the necessary decorations.
12. Make a loop or stand for hanging crafts on the wall.

Important! If during the work you do not have enough cardboard to make a frame with your own hands, then for the back side of the product you can use plain paper or stick two strips of cardboard from the back of the window.

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Magazine page frame

This craft not only looks original, but it can also be made completely free, because its main element is magazine pages that you can tear out from any unnecessary magazine.

For work you will need:

• Pages of old unnecessary magazines.
• Cardboard.
• PVA glue.
• Sewing thread.
• Scissors.
• Ruler.
• Stationery knife.
• Pencil.

Sequencing:

1. To make a photo frame with your own hands, prepare a sheet of cardboard or thick paper approximately 20X25 cm in size. Measure 5 cm from the edges of the sheet and draw a “window” measuring 10X15 cm in the middle.
2. Cut the “window” with a clerical knife.
3. Start folding the magazine pages as tightly as possible into the tubes. To fix them and prevent unwinding, use PVA glue.
4. Prepare a colored thread and begin to wind it on the twisted pages of the magazine. Continue until you get a lot of these blanks.
5. When the workpieces are done, bend them at an angle of 90 degrees in the right places and fix them on a cardboard frame with glue.
6. Prepare a small piece of cardboard for the leg. Cut two strips of cardboard and stick them to the back of the frame so that you can insert a photo between them.

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Thread wrapped frame

Another option to make a frame with your own hands is to braid it with a thread.

You will need:

• Simple photo frame with smooth edges.
• Several multi-colored threads.
• PVA glue.
• Scissors.

Sequencing:

1. Prepare the workpiece and apply a small amount of glue to it.
2. Start wrapping the frame with threads of different colors.
3. Add a photo.

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Spring frame

This frame is made on a spring theme. She looks romantic and tender.

You will need:

• Simple photo frame.
• Artificial flowers.
• PVA glue or glue gun.

Sequencing:

• Divide the artificial flowers into inflorescences (if desired, the flowers can be made independently from paper or fabric).
• Glue the flower petals to the frame with glue or glue gun.

Important! To make it more convenient, try sticking the petals, starting from the corner of the frame, then gradually filling the entire frame.

• Use lace, braid or beautiful paper to glue the edges of the frame.

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Gift frame

Sometimes it is very difficult to pick up a gift, but what could be better than a present made with your own hand. So, in order to make a frame with your own hands as a gift, you will need:

• Simple wooden frame.
• A piece of cloth.
• Ruler.
• PVA glue.
• Scissors.
• Glue brush.

Sequencing:

1. Prepare a piece of fabric on which to lay your frame. Cut as much fabric as you need to close the edge of the frame from the front and back.
2. Now cut off the excess fabric from the middle of the sheet.
3. Put the craft on a rectangular pattern, cut out the corners of the squares - so you will provide accurate corners.
4. Gently using PVA glue, glue the fabric on the sides of the product, but just be careful so that it does not wrinkle. This must be done on both sides of the frame, both on the inside and on the front.
5. Make diagonals in the corners of the frame. To do this, you need to notch every corner inside your frame.
6. Fold the fabric and glue it to the inside. You can paste over the back of the product with a cloth - here it is at will.
7. After it has completely dried, decorate it with ribbon, lace, or whatever you want.

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Stock footage

As you can see, making a photo frame with your own hands is very easy. You just need to spend some free time, show a little imagination, and a bright, interesting, original frame will always please you.