Upcycled Cutting Board Craft Picture Frame

Searching for a novel approach to show your loved ones pictures? Try our slicing board craft image “body”! This one-of-a-kind body is made out of an actual slicing board and might be personalised with your loved ones identify, favourite saying, or particular message. It’s the proper approach to exhibit your cherished reminiscences and make a novel assertion in your house.

Reducing Board Craft Image “Body”

I really like an ornamental body that’s greater than only a sq. or rectangle that hangs on the wall. I like to see my household pictures round the home and I like to be artful. Once I combine these items collectively, it creates this lovely upcycled slicing board craft. It’s so straightforward to create the body of your desires and add a contact of affection to your house.

Along with displaying this craft round your personal residence, it makes a beautiful reward concept for family and friends. And in the identical observe, when you have outdated frames you are not utilizing, try this checklist of how to repurpose frames. So many enjoyable methods to place issues to make use of when upcycling!

What Can I Use To Hold the Photos?

I’m utilizing clothespins to carry my image in place. I’ve seen related designs in shops that use clips. You may even use paper clips or binder clips.

In case you are utilizing one thing aside from clothespins, you need to watch out with the way it holds the image. If it makes an indent or mark on the photograph, be sure you use a photocopy or one thing related when utilizing the body. You would not need to damage the one copy you’ve of the photograph.

The place Can I Discover Low-cost Reducing Boards For Crafting?

The greenback retailer is a good place to discover a slicing board. I’ve additionally seen them at yard gross sales and thrift shops. I really like discovering the used ones as a result of they’ve a lot character to them. It is an ideal approach to give them new life with out having to fret about any germs hiding on the surfaces.

In case you are somebody who likes to cook dinner, you might have already got one available that you should utilize for this venture. And you may all the time ask family and friends if they’ve any which are cracked or stained that you possibly can use.

How Can I Make this Image Holder Distinctive?

There are a variety of how you can also make this venture distinctive. As all the time, that is a type of tasks that we’re making as a information but it surely would not should be actual. I really like utilizing random leftover craft provides for tasks like this and have discovered them to be distinctive each time. Beneath are some concepts you’ll be able to contemplate on your model.

• A technique is to color the slicing board. You may paint or stain it a stable coloration, or combine them to create a sample or marbled look. Even distressing the wooden would look nice, particularly when you have a farmhouse or rustic decor.
• Use stencils or stamps so as to add a message beneath the pictures on the board.
• It’s also possible to use completely different ribbons, beads, yarn, or different gildings to present it a seasonal look or a brand new type.
• Add hooks or ribbons on the underside for hanging extra photos and even utilizing as a key holder by a door.

There are plenty of methods to customise this slicing board craft to make it distinctive to you and your house type. Simply have enjoyable with it and use provides you have already got available.

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The best way to Make a Image Body From a Reducing Board

Clear the slicing board earlier than you start. That is particularly essential in case you are utilizing one which has already been used, or that you just picked up at a storage sale. Then, if you wish to add paint or stain, I like to recommend you strip any present stain and sand it. Stain or paint as desired following instructions on the actual stain.

Let your slicing board dry utterly then you’ll start including the burlap ribbon across the high. I put this just under the place the neck begins on the highest. Glue this into place throughout the board, or simply on the entrance and edges. Do what you like and with a method you want.

Subsequent, minimize one other size of that ribbon and fold it in half. Fold and glue this into place on high of the ribbon already on the board to create a bow.

You’ll then minimize out some smaller ribbons (I used brown), and loop them into smaller bows. Glue this to the middle of the bigger bow. You could possibly additionally use ready-made bows right here when you have them, and even a man-made flower.

The very last thing you’ll do is connect the clothespins or clips just under the ribbon to carry the pictures. Glue these into place, or nail them into place relying upon what you resolve to make use of.

Add your image(s) and hold it on the wall. This can be a wonderful means so as to add a household photograph or snapshot within the kitchen or eating room whereas retaining to the theme.

Extra Straightforward Picture Storage Concepts

When you’ve got a ton of images to show however do not know how one can make them match into your house, there are some nice concepts beneath. I really like the concept of printing off snapshots and turning them into enjoyable decor concepts. Many of those concepts can be utilized for quite a few events, as items, or simply as a enjoyable crafting venture. Just be sure you bookmark the concepts, print out the tutorials, or pin them to Pinterest to make quickly.