I saw these little beauties on Pinterest and Etsy
And found a great blog entry about it on Ruffles and Stuff which made me confident this is one I could do myself.
I decided to rope Paul my long suffering craft hating boyfriend into helping me with this one much to his protest. So we went charity shopping for some frames and books. I decided that I didn't want to mess up a brand new book and ended up finding a second hand one.
The frames we found were only £1.60 for all three. Two matched and one was slightly different but I planned to paint them so this didn't matter. I'd like to point out they did all come with the glass and backing.
I sanded down the frames and gave them a base coat in white.
I painted them a really bright turquoise in acrylic paint and although I liked the colour it had a weird texture to it and the more I looked it the less I thought it would go anywhere in my house. So with that I bought a cheap £1 tester pot of paint in a nice green shade which I love.
So on to the pictures!
All you need to go is find some clip art pictures of your choosing. It did take quite a bit of clicking about to find free ones but I just Googled them and put a copy in Paint. I then measured the size of my frame and set this as a Custom setting, I then used a craft knife to cut my paper to the correct size, using the glass in the frame as a template.
This is the finished result - sorry photos are poor and just leaned on a speaker as I haven't had a chance to put these up in our hall yet.
My favourite is the tree picture by far. These are a really quick easy make that is very affordable, I did all 3 for under £6 and still have paint and obviously a number of pages in the book to do other things with.
You can also make this very personal to go with your décor or along a theme, even making your own silhouettes. I found using this tutorial Crafted Niche really helpful, and although Picnik doesn't exist any more Google+ works exactly the same.
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