Love in Frames

My friend Stefani came to visit this weekend! YAY!

 And we decided to do some crafting. We had browsed through Pinterest to get some ideas, but didn't have anything set in mind. So we took a trip to Michael's to start brainstorming. That's when Stef had a great idea about doing a combination of things we saw. We found some small wooden frames for about $1 a piece and bought 4 of them. We then bought acrylic paint for $0.68 a bottle. I bought purple, Stef bought blue and we bought a white. We each bought a thing of ribbon, we found some great ribbon for $1 a piece. And then a piece of scrapbook paper for about $0.69. We looked for small wooden letters, but this store was low on supply so we went to Walmart and found a big tub of small wooden letters for about $6.

We came home and started working!

First, we painted the frames. We did ours in varying shades of our respective colors. We just kept adding white for each new frame color.

We also painted the letters white...

Next we cut out card stock and the scrapbook paper  so that they'd fit just slightly larger then the inside of the frame.

We glued the paper to the card stock then glued the card stock onto the least pretty side of the frame.

 The scrapbook paper was facing out, so when you flipped it over, it looked like this...

Next we glued the letters to the center of the paper. We just used Elmer's glue for this..nothing to fancy.

After the glue finished drying, we got out my glue gun and started to attach the ribbon. All we did was cut a LONG piece of ribbon. (You need enough to attach the frames and leave some space in between each of them.) We just glued the frames to the back. Then cut a small piece of ribbon to make a loop at the top so we could hang our signs.

And ta-dah!

 

I "love" it. :-) 

 

We did another crafting project but I'll leave that for my next post!