Frames with your own hands made of paper and cardboard

Paper - a universal and affordable material, which is ideal for creating a variety of crafts. Original frames for photo from paper and cardboard are easily made at home, look spectacular and stylish, create a cozy atmosphere at home and emphasize the mood of your photos.

Photo frame from paper with your own hands

A variety of design options allows you to experiment with materials - create interesting compositions from paper, thread and cardboard, work in a mixed style, decorated with beads and rhinestones, gilding, embroidery. Frames of cardboard can be sheathed with fabric, perform on them applications or decorate them with origami from paper of contrasting colors. Even such trivial materials as sand, dry twigs and ice cream sticks can be a source of inspiration for the original craft. You can beautifully draw a photo using a gilded frame. It is easy to make from cardboard, cutting it on a pattern pattern and painted on top with acrylic paint with gilding. If acrylic is not at hand, you can paste a printed photo of the carved wooden frame for the picture, as shown in the photo.

You can use another drawing, along which three-dimensional elements of a frame are collected from cardboard or paper - the painted cardboard frame looks like a wooden frame.

Frames for photos with your own hands

To make a photo frame with your own hands is very simple - you can use cardboard, picture frames, ceiling skirting boards or other materials convenient for you. Creative design of the framework will require imagination and skills in the field of hand-made. If you are embroidering smoothly, felting and or beadworking, then you will not have a lack of ideas for decor - you can safely use old workpieces, make up effective compositions of them, using the entire working surface of the frame, excluding the inner area for photography.

How to make a frame for a photo

Master-class on manufacturing of a cardboard frame in vintage style for registration of your favorite photos:

• Transfer the drawing to the cardboard, it consists of three parts: the back and front frame, as well as the inside - the passepartout.
• Cut out the elements of the frame from the cardboard, treat them with a white primer, and then proceed to decorating. The volume and texture of the composition is given by lace or bandage - it needs to be straightened in the right areas on the front of the frame and covered with a layer of ground acrylic.
• Trim the areas of matter that extend beyond the edges of the frame, and dry it in an open slightly heated oven.
• Work over the frame with a texture paste and spray paint through the stencil, top with a lightly primed white primer to "age" it.

• The finished parts of the frame are glued together, the inner part on one side is left loose so that there is where to insert the photo.
• Now the cardboard frame is almost ready, you can glue a cardboard leg to it from behind, if it will stand on a flat surface or thread, if you plan to hang it on the wall.

Creative photo frames

Nature gives a lot of idea for the decoration of crafts - so, you can decorate the frame with shells, dry twigs, dried flowers and leaves. Effectively it looks like a frame, pasted with miniature flat discs-spilled branches, with a diameter of one to five centimeters. They can be produced on a woodworking machine or purchased from folk craftsmen.

Use for the decoration of photo frames made of paper can be beads, sequins, artificial flowers, felt and felt elements. Artificial flowers are preferably divided by tweezers into petals and fixed on a cardboard basis each of them with the help of an adhesive gun. In such a framework, photos take on a solemn and festive look.

Decorating the frame for a photo can be done with any handy materials that you find at home. Excellent decor create paper tubes, twisted from colorful pages of glossy magazines - their edges are fixed with clerical glue or fixed with bright threads for sewing or floss.

Creative frames for the photo can be made from thread for knitting: the frame is wound with threads, placing them tightly and parallel to each other, fixing with glue. You can use threads of different colors, make contrasting corners, sew felt colors on the finished photo frame or glue coffee beans.