Wooden theme photo frame

Since a long time, I was thinking of making a photo frame with a dark background. Black is the darkest of all, however, keeping that aside for another project, for this one with limited materials in hand, I thought of creating a wooden look using burnt sienna and umber black mix to create the look.

This time, the photo frame is created with a single card stock instead of using two different colors on top of each other. Hence, the blank space for the photo (5/7 inches) is created by an outline with black decorated lace.

The rest of steps are same as described before. In this frame, I have used only Malaysian flowers, my most favorite floral pattern in quilling. The leaves are created by assembling five marquise shapes on yellow paper strips, which are used as small stems in this case. Three of each of these five composite leave patterns are further joined together to give another composite structure of 15 leaves together and a total six such sets are used in the assembly.

 Here's posting some snapshots on floral assembly on silicone and the side view of the frame.

Drying the flowers on silicone glue on a plastic base

Trimming the excess glue and keeping the flowers ready and planning some assembly by adding the composite leaves and swirls

The side view (Total size 8/12 ", photo space 5/7")

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Nature theme photo frame....Sky Blue and Green

The customized photo frame series continues. I had completed two more within last two weeks. One of which is this blue and green color theme frame created on an 8/12 inches cardstock with an available photo size of 5/7 inches.

The background was created with distressing using Tim Holtz distress inks. I have used both mowed lawn and broken china inks and this is how it looked. The swirl which is used are available readymade from Nupur Creatives Store, Mumbai (online as well) and the color effect is created with distressing again.

Getting the background ready

Next step is to create the flowers and leaves by quilling of course and then assembling each of the flowers separately (as described in my older posts) with the help of a silicone glue. Apart from Anabond RTV 666 which I had used before, Permatex clear RTV clear silicone (#80050, available at Amazon) also worked well.

It takes minimum 8-9 hours for the silicone to dry and harden completely. I keep it for 12 hours and then it is easily removable from the small plastic bases (cut from any plastic cover files) using a tweezer. The excess of the silicone base is then removed with scissors.

The final step is to plan the assembly and this step is where the creativity can be enjoyed to its fullest to create some nice florals and leaves compositions. Some zoomed in view of the assembly are given below, just for you :)

So the final frame again. Just put a picture on the blank space (5/7 inches) and make this an adorable gift for your near and dear ones. The outer dimension of the designer piece is 8/12 inches in size and can be framed within shadow boxes of appropriate size, matte color and frame color. One more unique feature of these customized frames is that you can keep the orientation of your picture either as portrait or in landscape and can place or rotate the final frame accordingly.

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Customized photo frame - Blue color theme

I started working on the assembly part for this frame on the auspicious morning of Ganesh Chaturthi, which was on 17th September this year. I was simply having a picture in my mind of how to assemble the quilled shapes when it just struck that it looked like "Ganesha Trunk and Crown" from one angle. This is how it looked and I quickly added a Ganesh silhouette in the center and captured the assembly in my camera :)

Just oriented the assembly top down and captured another angle and with this my celebration for Ganesh Festival, which I was missing a lot this year sitting in France is partly completed.

GANESH: Gives All New Energy and Spirit of Happiness

The final assembly of this customized photo frame in blue and orange theme colors looks a bit different, though. Here are some pictures of the completed frame :)

Zoomed in

Hoping to add more frames in this series, soon. 

Customized photo frame series continues

Here comes the second customized photo frame from A4 cardstock, keeping the same neutral color theme. Using black, cream and light yellow color mostly with adding a pinch of light green as an accent, the finishing is completed with the addition of golden glitter balls used in the centers of the Malaysian flowers.

The photo size which can be added here is 5/7 inches. Once can even use it as a nice quotation stand by adding any favorite quote with a picture as background in the blank area. The frame can, therefore, be customized based on the user's requirement.

The completed frame looks like this. I have added the butterfly to complete the look.

The flower at top left corner is made with beehive pattern.

Composite assembly with beehive patterned petals

Some other views of the frame are as follows and without the butterfly as well. Yesterday while I took the picture the blank area somehow caught my mind as the continuity seemed to be broken. I made this butterfly today morning and adding that simply completed the look as I wanted (see picture above).

Top left (zoomed in)

Quilled assembly (zoomed in)

The next plan is to create more such frames with differently colored themes. Please stay tuned :)

Quilled Photo frame_Theme Brown and White

Instead of buying a photo frame and decorating it with paper quilling or sospeso, the alternate option is to create a photo frame from scratch using simple cardstock papers.

I have taken two different color textured cardstock papers in contrasting colors. Keeping the theme colors as brown, yellow and white I have cut out a 5/7 inches (width/length) space on the brown paper. Then it was glued over the yellow textured paper to give a photo frame like structure. Both the cardstocks are of a standard A4 size which is 8/10 inches. Sizes are customizable.

Daisy and Malaysian flowers assembled on silicone glue (Anabond 666 RTV)

The following quilled shapes are used to create the 2D assembly on the brown paper as shown below:

Specification of paper strips for:

Daisy flower:
(1) White strip from Quilling essential (you can use any other brand as well)
(2) Length 10.5 inches
(3) Width (3 mm)

The Malaysian flower petals are also with same specifications. For tutorial on Malaysian petal please watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzrDZk5zt44

For the center which is a full-length fringe flower please follow the video link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPR4iWKIkr8

For the leaves:
(1) Light green and Dark green paper strips from Quilling essential (or any other brand)
(2) Length of each strip taken is 10.5 inches and joined together to give a full length of 21 inches. The quilling can be done from either end of the paper strip depending on whether you need the dark or the light color inside.
(3) Width (3 mm each)
(4) Set of three and five leaves quilled in Marquise shape are assembled.

For the butterfly:
(1) Yellow and white paper strips from Quilling Essential (or any other brand)
(2) Length of each strip taken is 5 inches and joined together to quill into tear-drop shape.
(3) Width (3 mm each)
(4) The wings are created in a set of 3 tear-drops each side and then assembled separately on the center. The center is created from 10.5 inches black strip (3 mm width) by combing.

For some nice butterfly tutorials, you can follow one of my favorite blogs by "Ayani Art".

With that here comes the final photo frame once more

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