An excellent gift - a frame with your own hands

How you want to decorate your house with special things. Which will give positive emotions and remind of happy moments in our life. Such small trifles, we gladly accept as a gift and put in the most prominent place. One of the small, but wonderful souvenirs can be a frame made with your own hands.

Such a product is suitable for various hobbies. In it you can insert a photo or a picture, fix an embroidery or a collection of butterflies. And if you want to create your own herbarium, designed to decorate the interior, such a frame with your own hands will simply be irreplaceable. You can make it in various ways. The frame itself with paper, wood, foam, cardboard, plaster or plastic will be much more beautiful and original than the factory product. You can buy an inexpensive base and turn it into a real masterpiece, decorated with beads, shells, textiles, buttons or rhinestones.

The simplest frame with your own hands is made of foam. In each house there is a packing from home appliances of various forms. This is what we will use for this purpose. Packing of foam plastic is a container with sides of different heights. If we gently cut this container a few centimeters from the top, we will get a ready basis for the frame. It is very light.

Decorating the frame, you can use the technique of carving or beading. Having a large stock of colorful beads in the house, let them go. Fasten the beads to the foam surface in two ways: with glue or a thin wire. Styrofoam is perfectly pierced. We cut the pieces of wire of the necessary length. For each thread on a large bead and bend in half. We pierce the wire with foam wire and twist the pieces of wire on the back side, fixing the bead. We spread the intended pattern across the entire area of the frame.

If you want to twist the wire was not visible, then cut another one of the same frame, but only one centimeter thick. To the back part we tie a loop, for which we will hang the finished product. On the table, put the back of the frame, cover it with a photograph and put the front part on top. We connect both parts of the product with several needles with beads at the end. Frame with your own hands made of foam is ready.

You can use any material to decorate to your liking, even textiles. Covering the product with a beautiful cloth, draping it and fixing with needles, you will get a beautiful frame for your photos.

A perfect option will be a frame of paper with your own hands. For this purpose, newspapers or old notebooks are suitable. Determine the required size of the finished product. We will need four or eight parts that make up the framework. Newspaper sheets are lubricated with glue and twisted in the same thickness of the tube. From several blanks we cut the necessary length parts.

The frame of double tubes looks much more interesting. We glue two parts for each side and glue them well on all sides with good adhesion. We allow to dry for at least 1-2 days. After this, we cut each side at an angle of 45 degrees and collect the frame. For this, we glue the joints of the corners from the back side. Shpaklyuem frame from all sides. We let the product dry, after which we paint in the desired color. We fix the photo with the help of small carnations or needles stuck from the back of the frame.

If the frame is made large, then it is required to make a substrate. To do this, cut out a piece of thick cardboard, to which a loop is attached. It is superimposed on the picture or photo. The top is covered with a decorative frame. The details are connected with the help of small carnations from the wrong side. None of your guests will even think that the silver or bronze frame that frames the beautiful picture on the wall is made of paper waste.