This photo frame has its charm. It is made by recycling ice cream sticks and forming a structure that you will like. Although what will really make you fall in love with this craft is its vintage look and that can be done by mixing two paints. To do this, we superimpose two colors and proceed to give it that texture with the help of sandpaper. If you want to know how to do it, I invite you to watch our tutorial and our video.
The materials that I have used are:
- 14-15 ice cream sticks
- black acrylic paint
- white acrylic paint
- a piece of clear plastic sheet
- Photo
- a piece of thin rope to hang the frame
- coarse and fine grit sandpaper
- hot silicone with gun
- a pen
- a brush
- scissors
- a rule
You can see this craft step by step in the following video:
First step:
We assemble the structure with the main sticks and we superimpose one of them on the top to get the measure of the sticks that we will cut later. With the measure of a stick we will take out another 7 sticks, These will form the structure above the frame that will decorate this part.
Second step:
We paint all the sticks black (in total there are 6 whole sticks and 8 cut sticks) and we let them dry. Once the we will paint over white and we will let it dry.
Third step:
With a coarse grit sandpaper We sand the surface revealing the black part of the paint. It will be scratched and with a vintage look and to soften its appearance a little more we will sand it with a fine sandpaper.
Fourth step:
We assemble the structure by gluing the sticks with hot silicone. In the back we will have a space between the sticks in the upper part of the frame. We fill that space with a piece of stick and we paste it. There cannot be that empty space because we are going to place the cut sticks and they have to be all aligned well.
Fifth step:
We glue the cut sticks on top and We will paint the entire structure black from behind. We let it dry. We will place two pieces of sticks at the back so that you can hold the photo and the plastic sheet, we will also paint it black. We take a piece of rope and stick it from behind with the silicone. This rope will be used to hang the frame.
Step Six:
We cut the plastic to size to place it as a photo protector. The photo will also be cut to size and placed in the frame.