How to jazz up a cheap photograph frame

After reading Emily's crafty decoupage photograph frame project a couple of months ago, this became the perfect excuse to try and make a couple for our apartment. With getting married and having our honeymoon we've had load of photos lying around homeless, yet none of the frames I've found were suitable, or were really expensive. This project to solved the problem - using two cheap wooden photograph frames both $1 from the Dollar Tree, a trusty tourist map that got us around Chicago and a sheet of scrapbook paper [59c] for our wedding photograph it was time to have some fun. I'll give you a quick guide about what I did but rather then repeating Emily's post, go peek at her blog!

Cutting the map into pieces of varying sizes using PVA glue I covered the wooden frame. The fun is you can be as messy or as neat as you like. After completing all the sides, coat again with PVA [I did two coats] leaving it to dry in between].

I enjoyed the messy look, so I loved overlapping the different sized maps that we had, trying to keep the pieces with sites that we had visited really obvious. Other people might just see it as a map, but to us, it's where we have and made some very special memories.

If you have an hour or two to spare and want to jazz up some old or some cheap photo frames then I would definitely recommend doing something similar, especially for something as important like this when you just can't find a frame that's fitting. You also have the freedom to cover and use whatever you like, posters, newspapers, paper, anything. But what is best is how cheap and fun they are to make.