DIY Botanical Wallpaper Picture Frames

I took each week off to benefit from my 25 12 months bridal ceremony anniversary in Maui, nevertheless at current I’m once more with an enthralling new DIY mission. Basic paintings and traditional decor has returned, and every make a home actually really feel cozy and welcoming.

I’ve always beloved botanical wallpaper so I believed a set of the small scale papers would look so sweet and distinctive if secured to frames and mats for the purpose of displaying traditional herb prints.

I chosen Spoonflower as my provide of wallpaper and did a search for ‘small scale botanical wallpaper’, then I browsed the patterns to slim down my options.

On Spoonflower, you probably can order a swatch of wallpaper and the company will ship a 24” x 12” sample. When wallpaper was on sale only a few weeks previously, I chosen three botanical non-pasted wallpaper prints to play with.

After the three wallpaper samples arrived, I bought three 8×10” matted flat edge frames at Michaels to frame 5×7” herb paintings prints.

To recreate these wallpapered frames, you’ll need 12×24” wallpaper samples in a pattern of your different, 8×10” frames matted for a 5×7” paintings print, scissors, a flat paintbrush, and tacky glue.

Decrease the wallpaper samples in half so there are two 12×12” gadgets. Decrease a 5×5” sq. inside the first piece of wallpaper. Apply tacky glue to the doorway of the 8×10” picture physique and layer wallpaper on prime. Decrease angles to allow wrapping wallpaper throughout the within the first picture physique.

Subsequent coronary heart the mat extreme of the wallpapered physique to align the pattern to the mat. Apply glue to the doorway of the mat and layer the wallpaper on prime. Allow it to dry, then trim edges and coronary heart of mat so it fits inside wallpapered picture physique.

Layer the wallpapered mat contained within the wallpapered physique then insert the glass into the once more of the wallpapered picture physique. The piece of glass sits behind the wallpapered mat. Coronary heart the paintings print behind the glass, then finish the framing course of by together with the cardboard included with the physique to the once more.

In the event you occur to’d prefer to make use of the similar herb paintings I used, you probably can get hold of these 8 ½ x 11” pdf pages from my web page and print them at home or with an space printing service.

lavender and rosemary 5×7” pdf

thyme and sage 5×7” pdf

Any small scale botanical or floral wallpaper presents you the similar look! These are charming held on the wall in a set or layered on bookshelves as backdrops to books and decor.