Photo Decor

     Looking for a way to display photos other than traditional picture frames?  Here are a couple of creative ways to showcase your pictures.

3-D Photo Display

Materials:

*Foam board

*Sheet of printed paper at least 9”x9”

*9 photos 2”x2” or 2.5”x2.5”

*Photo safe adhesive (such as photo mounting squares)

*All purpose adhesive

*Ribbon

*Scissors and/or X-acto knife (X-acto knife may work a bit better than scissors for cutting foam board)

Directions:

*Cut a 9”x9” square of foam board.

*Cut sheet of paper to 9”x9” if it is not already that size, then adhere to one side of the foam board using your photo safe adhesive.

*Crop photos to desired size. 

*Cut out nine sections of foam board that are slightly smaller than your photos (e.g. if your pictures are 2”x2”, you may want to cut out sections of foam board that are 1¾”x1¾”).

*Adhere pictures to foam squares using your photo safe adhesive.

*Arrange squares on the patterned paper in a way that you find desirable, then adhere squares to the paper using your photo safe adhesive.

*Glue a loop of ribbon to the back of the project using your all purpose adhesive.  Once the glue is dry, you will be able to hang up your photo creation.

Picture Hanger

Materials:

*Decorative hanger

*Assorted beads

*Headpins

*Foam board

*Photos

*Different sheets of patterned paper (if you have leftover scraps of paper from other projects, this would be a good project to use them in)

*Mod Podge

*Paintbrush

*Stickers or other embellishments (optional)

*Large needle

*Jump rings

*Round nose pliers

*Other pliers

*Scissors and/or X-acto knife

Directions:

*Based on the size of your hanger, determine the number and size of rectangles you want to use in your project.  Cut out however many sections of foam board in the size you deem appropriate.

*Cut strips of patterned paper that are the same size as the foam board rectangles and use Mod Podge or other adhesive to stick the paper to the foam rectangles.

*Crop photos into rectangular shapes slightly smaller than the foam rectangles and adhere to the patterned paper.

*Coat the decorated side of the foam rectangles and let dry.  After they dry, you may wish to apply a second or third coat of Mod Podge to give rectangles a nice, glossy finish.

*Once dry, decorate with stickers or other embellishments if you so choose. 

*Using a large needle, poke a hole through the top part of each foam rectangle.  Using the pliers, pull open the jump ring, then slide it through the hole.  Do not close.

*Snip off the head of a headpin and use round pliers to make a loop at the base.

*Decorate headpin with beads, then make a loop at the other end wide enough to fit around the hanger.  Close around hanger. 

*Slide other end of the headpin through the jump ring on one of the rectangles, then close the jump ring.  You should now have one rectangle hanging from the hanger.

*Repeat process with the remainder of the head pins.