Rustic Wooden Photo Frame

 

 I made a photo frame!

 This project was good because it used up two things I've had for ages.

The first was this plain wooden photo frame I bought from Hobbycraft years ago.

It was probably on sale. I don't think I would have bought it if not.

 

The second thing I got to use up was some of these little wooden things that come with canvases.

I used some of them a while back with these garden fence cards but I've still got so many more.

I quite liked the rustic, beach shack type feel of the little planks around the frame so I went with it.

I used wood glue to attach the wood to the frame and left it to dry under some heavy books.

I picked out some wood stain from the garage and did some test pieces to decide which colour I liked better.

 I went for the lighter one and applied it with an old rag.

There were some parts where the glue had got on the surface of the wood so I had to sand the glue off so the stain would...youknow, stain.

Any excuse to show you my signed Ian Somerhalder photo

Then I popped a photo in the frame and it was done.

This was such a quick and easy project, and it's given me loads more ideas for decorating plain frames.