Stoned Picture Frame

These are based on a tutorial over at  Ruffles and Stuff for "Easy Fancy Pants Frames" and we made them previously  here.   They are inexpensive and very easy to make and add panache to a plain frame.

The only thing that is a bit different is I didn't find a frame in pink at the dollar store and used some hot pink spray paint I had on hand.   

•  Picture frame (with an edge wide enough to hold the stone you are going to glue on
• Small clear decorative stones
• Amazing Goop or other strong, clear glue
• Spray Paint
• Newspapers

- Put down newspapers

-Spray the frame with paint, allow to dry

-Check for missed spots, spray again, allow to dry

- Position stones on frame then glue down.

-Leave frame flat until glue is dry.

- Place picture in frame and it is ready for gift-giving.




The photo was Walgreens using their free software to create a collage and you can select up to 20 photos for the collage, but I only used 10 for the above.  I ordered it during a promotion and it was free, but the code has now expired.  From time to time they do offer this special and it usually posted on their photo home page.

http://30minutecrafts.com/2013/05/craft-lightning-week-2.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed

PUZZLE PIECES PHOTO FRAME

I did not create this craft, I submitted the idea to familycrafts.about.com for the Monday challenge of what to do with stray puzzle pieces as it was a craft my son did when he was in early grade school and it was selected to be featured. (Pic is not mine, it is of Sherri Osbourn's creation at the following website as she created the idead that I submitted) http://familycrafts.about.com/od/puzzlegamepiececrafts/a/puzzleframe.htm Items used:

• 4 Craft Sticks (or popsicle sticks that have been washed)
• Puzzle Pieces
• Photo
• Tab From a Soda Can
• Glue
• Scissors

Glue the sticks together at the edges to make a frame.

Glue the puzzle pieces around the craft stick frame.

Trim the photo to the same size as the frame and then glue it to the back side of the frame.

Finally, glue the pop tab to the back to use as a hanger.

DOGGY LOVE PHOTO FRAME

This project used a Dollar Store frame and some scrapbook stickers to display my son's favorite pic of his dog back when they were both youngsters.

Items you need are:

• A favorite photo
• A picture frame
• Scrapbook stickers of whatever the theme of your picture is
• Acrylic paint (in the color you prefer)
• Scissor (to crop the photo)
• Beading wire (optional - to make a loop on the back of the frame to hang it up)

Take glass out of frame and paint the frame the color of your choice (I used black gloss). After the paint is dry, stick on the stickers around the frame. Select the photo you want to use (preferable the same size of the photo or a larger one that you can crop to fit. If you need to crop the photo, place the glass on the photo and move it around until you get get what looks best, then trace around the frame and cut the picture out (For Mother's Day, Walgreens offered free 8X10 reprints and I had the pic blown up then trimed it to fit the 5X7 frame).

Optional: If the hangers on the back of the picture are too small to fit what you want to hang to secure the picture, create a loop with the jewelry wire and loop it through the hanger then twist off the ends.

SPRING IN A JAR 3D PHOTO FRAME

This is my new desk decoration for work - I call it my "happy place". I saw photos put in jars on Photojojo and it inspired this project. http://photojojo.com/content/diy/glass-jar-photo-frames/

BEFORE:

Item bought from Dollar Tree:

• Blue Star Shaped Glass Stones (to represent water from all the spring rain - we have a lot of flooding in the Spring where I live).
• Scrapbook Stickers (I chose these because they reminded more more of things my son does and things we see - our local zoo opens in the Spring and they have train that we always would ride, my son uses his skateboard on the sidewalk, the net for when he used to go fishing with his Grandpa before he passed away, and bugs).
• Easter Grass (to represent the grass getting greener and growing).
• Flowers (to represent the flowers that start to grow).

COST: $4 Things I already had on hand:

• Old candle jar.
• Photo of my son at Air Zoo in Battlecreek, MI that I took on a field trip for his school in Spring when he was in the 8th grade.
• Components to make "Shaun The Sheep" (made out of cotton from an asprin bottle, googly eyes that had come off of other project and scraps of black fabric) - I was going for more the look of the animals with suction cups that you stick on a car window - as a user commented on my blog, he does sort of look like pickled sheep).

AFTER:

I cropped the photo then put it in the jar, then put the blue star stones in the bottom, put in some pieces off the flower and Shaun the Sheep (yep, have to agree with one comment I received where he sort of does look like pickled sheep here), then added the Easter grass in the center.

To top it off, I pulled more flowers off and stuck them in the center so they stuck up outside of the jar, then put the lid on the jar. I then put the stickers on the outside of the jar to make it even more 3-D. ***UPDATE*** This was submitted as an idea at Familycrafts@About.com as part of a challenge on what to do with an empty jar and it was one of the three items featured. http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blscrapbookjar.htm

I Pimped My Avatar with Picnik

I had previously pimped my avatar to more suit me and include by handle, but it needed to be even more me and after playing around with the free software at http://www.picnik.com/ I am came up with this verison.

NEON PHOTO

I used the free software at www.picnik.com also, but did mine in neon red with neon read frame and added a lip print "sticker" in the upper left hand corner. Think the software makes me sort of looked like a fat female foured goth crossed version of the Joker, which is sort of geeky cool.

Another project for my to-do list - Old Fashioned Sign Reverse Painted Sign on a Photo Frame

I was visiting one of my favorite sites, Dollar Store Crafts today and found this gem. http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/02/reverse-paint-sign/ The tutorial is at the following link and was done by guest blogger, Cathie Holden: http://www.livinglocurto.com/index.php/2009/01/reverse-sign-painting In looking at the tutorial, you reverse the lettering then stencil it on the back of the glass with acrylic paints. Dollar Store Crafts has a hyperlink to a site where you could create the reverse lettering on line. http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/index.php?id=0