PHOTO FRAME

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Having thought of making a frame for photographs with your own hands, you can reflect on the questions: “Is it worth it to do it and spend time? Why not buy it, because there are just a lot of them ?!”. But you just need to think about where the desire to draw a frame came from and all the questions go away from my head. Thus, we want to give our memories special significance and make their viewing more comfortable and enjoyable for our eyes. It’s worth the work.
To make a photo frame, prepare a thick cardboard (2-3 mm thick), PVA glue, a stationery knife, Moment glue, a pencil, scissors, several shades of fabric (preferably cotton), white paper (preferably whatman), a ruler, and a stack (needed to level the surface ), decor elements. If the cardboard is light and the fabric is light, then white paper will not be needed; if the cardboard is of any color and the fabric is dark, it will also not be needed.

The first step is to cut out all parts of the photo frame from cardboard. This frame has a size of 16x21 cm, for photography 10x15 cm. This means that the border of the frame is 3 cm. You need to cut a window 10x15 cm - this is the front side, cut two parts 16x21 cm. One part must be cut as in the photo - from this part a stand will be made (bottom 7 cm high). You also need to cut 3 linings that will be between the front (front) and back: the width of each part is 2.8 cm, the length matches the size of the frame.

Apply a thin layer of PVA and stick white paper onto the front, smoothing it with a stack so that it is a flat surface.

Glue the moment of backing with glue, placing them on the edges of the frame. Thus we leave a place for a photograph.

Take the whole blank 16x21 cm and glue it with a cloth, carefully gluing the corners from the back.

Cut the fabric to fit the frame and prepare the middle accordingly, making cuts in the corners.

Glue the fabric on the PVA first to the entire base, then glue the free edges to the back of the frame, repeating all the bends.

Cut the fabric at the top of the frame along the inner edges of the edges of the linings, indenting 2 mm. Glue the central part.

Glue on the Moment a blank that is glued with a cloth (the cloth inside the frame is the back wall). Glue the free edges around the perimeter. Cropped edges at an angle are turned inward in the direction from the place for the photo and sealed. The top part where the photo is inserted should look like this.

This is the back of the first part of the frame.

This is the front side of the frame.

Prepare the second part of the frame, which will be the stand and divided into two different parts. Cover it with a cloth.

Lay the two parts glued side down. Make 2 blanks of white paper to the size of the lower part, glue it with a cloth, not gluing the upper part - leave the tail.

Glue together with the tail to both parts of the frame.

Glue two parts of the frame with “ugly” sides to each other with glue Moment (short parts were glued to them to the bottom of the frame). Lay under the press for a while to secure both parts of the frame.