Friday, February 8, 2013

DIY Photo Heart


I love crafts.  If I could I would spend my entire paycheck at the crafts store (sometimes I do haha).  I also love pictures.  Growing up my room was filled with pictures.  Every counter space had a frame and every wall had something on it.  That is why I wanted to get creative with it.  Now I just stuck mine to the wall, which I'll tell you how to do but I would suggest framing it. 


What You Will Need:
1. For two hearts you need 52 pictures. 
26 for each heart
18 of those are landscape
the other 34 are portrait
2. Frame of your choice. I suggest laying the pictures out and measuring before trying to choose. I wish I could tell you the size but I no longer have this on my wall and as I said I never framed it myself.
3. Scrapbook paper of your choice.
4. Cello tape


How To:
1. Layout the scrapbook paper the way you would like and secure it to the back of the frame.
2. I would start placing the pictures from the bottom to make sure it is aligned and centered
3. On the bottom you will place 1 portrait picture
4. Next level directly above it you will place 3 portrait pictures
5. Next level 3 landscape.
6. Above that 4 landscape
7. The next level will be 7 portrait 
8. On the next level you will place 6 portrait with three on the left and three on the right with about the space of a landscape picture bare in between (I realize from what I'm saying this all sounds kind of weird and confusing but it wont be when you see the pictures. I'm just giving you the picture counts so you don't have to do it yourself.)
9. And above both of those three you will place one landscape picture.

Secure everything with cello tape or Elmers glue.  If you plan on doing this directly on the wall as I did just skip the first step and use cello tape.  Feel free to change it up! You could cut the edges to make the shape more prominent. Another thing you can do is go to Printstagr.am and order your pictures straight from your Instagram.  The sizing is different so you would be different so you would have to play around with the numbers.  That and you wouldn't have to mess with the landscape/portrait thing,  Let me know if you do this and how you like it! send me pictures of it as well and if you figure out frame size or Instagram picture numbers post it to me and I''l update this!

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