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Dear friends sharing an easy picture frame tutorial to make a unique 3 D frame to house “works of art”.This is a picture of the Egyptian Pharaoh King Tutankhamen coloured by my daughter with sketch pens and watercolours.
My daughter will turn 8 at the end of this month and being rather enamoured of the “monster- high” dolls ,she wanted a monster high themed party.I must admit I can't stand the ghoulish looking dolls and cringed. Fortunately one of her dolls is “Cleo de nile” and so we managed to reach an agreement and have an “Egyptian theme” Birthday party instead.
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The whole week my little girl and I have been brainstorming about Egypt themed party ideas.When I printed King Tutankhamen’s picture from
Colorkiddo I never expected my little one would paint it so beautifully!
She used a shimmery gold water colour paint for the gold on King Tutankhamen’s face!! She was so proud of it I just had to get it framed .
Life is so hectic right now that I can't spare the time to go to a professional place to get it framed so I decided to make my own picture frame. I have made lots of handmade photo frames earlier and here are some of the tutorial links [
Photo-frame tutorial 1,
Photo-frame tutorial 2,
Photo-frame tutorial 3]
I didnt want to embellish the frame for this picture but didnt want a flat frame either.Luckily the
Craft Gods were shining on me and my experimentation proved successful
3 D Picture frame tutorial
Materials Required
- Double sided foam tape – 1 inch would be the easiest width to work with
- Corrugated paper- different qualities of corrugated paper are available.The sturdier ones would be best to make the 3 D picture frame.Instead of corrugated paper you could also use foam sheets or textured card stock but corrugated paper is the easiest as its flexible and will take a bit of squishing!!
- Cardboard or other base- I recycled a sturdy piece of cardboard to make the base of this DIY picture frame
- OHP transparency / Acetate – optional if you want to give a protective cover from dust.
Here is how to make the 3 D Picture frame border
We cut out the painting and stuck it on corrugated glittery gold paper with foam tape for added dimension.
I stuck the corrugated paper with the painting on a sturdy cardboard base[ recycled!] and stuck
1 inch double sided foam tape all along the borders.
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I cut out corrugated paper to make the border frame the same length as the tape on one side of the picture but of width 2 and 1/4 inch. If you are using a different width of foam tape just double the width plus add a bit extra to get the width of corrugated paper to use.
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Stick the “
right side” of the corrugated paper on the
inner half of the tape only. Press firmly using your fingers.
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Roll the corrugated paper like you were making a cylinder into the middle of the foam tape
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Stick the
edge of the corrugated paper on the
middle of the sticky foam tape
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Now
press firmly on the outer part of your corrugated paper so that it sticks firmly to your foam tape
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Corrugated paper takes a bit of squishing without getting squashed!!Make half cylinder tubes for all
4 sides and you have a beautiful 3 D picture frame
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You can leave the ends of the cylinders open or glue
semicircles cut out of corrugated paper to cover them like I have done here in the picture frame.
Optional step- Insert a transparency[acetate sheet] over the picture wedged between the 4 frame borders to protect your picture from dust.
I hope this easy Picture frame tutorial will come in handy to frame a picture or even an image in card making or to create a 3 D frame for a photo in a layout.
Do tell me how you liked my kiddo's art and the frame tutorial .
Here are more links to what we made for our Egypt theme Birthday Party
Edited : This project got an honorable mention at Crafters Corner "special" theme
