Easy Wood Photo Frame Idea

Let’s make a 5 minute craft that looks great-a rustic picture frame that holds a typical 4×6 photo.

Before the winter weather came in our direction I planned ahead for winter crafts by cutting up scraps of lumber and coating it with a bit of dark wood stain. You never know what sort of crafts could use a bit wood and hot glue gun. I’ll post some other wood scrap ideas at the bottom of the post.

Rustic Wood Photo Holder

You will need:

- a scrap of wood approx. 5 inches by 9 inches
- walnut wood stain
- rag
- basic twine
- hot glue gun
- ruler
- picture hook or eye screws
- 4×6 photo

The piece of wood I used was a 1×6 board originally. In actuality its more like 5 1/4 inches wide and 9 1/4 inches long (13cm x 24cm). Use what ever you have this doesn’t need to be exactly the way I did it.

Stain the wood with a rag dipped into a dark brown stain such as Minwax Walnut or Jacobean.

After the stain is dry, choose the better looking side to be the front. Turn it over and using a hot glue gun, glue the end of the twine to the back of the wooden board approx. 1 inch from the bottom.

Wrap the twine around the board approximately 5 times keeping it fairly tight and adding more hot glue to secure each line of twine.

Repeat again 5 and 1/2 inches away from the first twine wrapped section. Have a 4×6 photo handy to test out the distance you would like the top and bottom of the photo.

Take 2 or 3 strands of twine and cut to 7 inches long.

Bend the twine in half so there is a point for the bottom of your heart.

Add a dab of glue to the bent area of the twine and secure it onto the board. I added to the top right.

Add more small dabs of glue at the top of the heart. Use very little here because we don’t want it to dribble and show on the finished side.

Rustic Picture Frame Diy. Use up scrap wood by adding twine and make a lovely gift. mybrightideasblog.com — Nail in a picture hook to hang by a nail.

If you would like it to be able to hang up on the wall you could hammer in a picture hook. Another option is the screw in eye hooks and tie more twine or jute rope to hang it up.

Add a special photo and give it as a gift.

I put this on the craft table at work and it sold right away! Fortunately, I have a stack of wood ready for more crafting. See the links below for more ideas for how to use up the little pieces of wood you have in your cut off scrap pile.