Frame Your Memories: 40 Simple Craft Ideas for Personalising Your Photos

by SusieJohns (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.25

  Make the display of your photographs, memory boards and other memorabilia even more special with this imaginative collection of beautiful projects. Frame Your Memories features 40 simple step-by-step projects to preserve and transform your photos and keepsakes into attractive frames, albums, memory boxes and boards. Starting off with an informative how-to chapter on materials, tools and techniques, you'll grasp the necessary skills, such as stamping, iron-on transfers, trimming, painting and stencilling to create the fun projects to follow. This book presents a wide selection of ideas split into four chapters:
  Adorned: Change that plain frame into an eye-catching display for your favourite snapshots or memorabilia with a bit of glue and decorative add-ons, such as crystalline beads or vintage magazine cutouts
  Wrapped: Give a shop bought or charity shop frame, photo album or box lid a complete makeover by covering it in pretty paper, fabric, netting or ribbon. With a very simple frame become transformed into a glamorous wedding or anniversary present
  Painted: Add a new colourful look and character to a frame with just a few decorative brushstrokes, stamps and stencils. Alternatively try a distressed paint effect or apply a sponge to create a speckled look
  Custom-Made: Make a frame, board or box with stick-on touches and a creative use of saved tickets, programmes, maps, and other meaningful mementos
  This exciting and innovative collection of projects presents a wealth of quick and easy ideas for making your scrapbooking projects, photos and other memorabilia extra special to take price of place in yur own home or to present as a gift to friends and family.