Are you ready to get crafty and show off your favourite memories in a super cool way? Then get ready to learn how to make a fabulous felt photo frame! With just a few simple materials and your creativity, you’ll have a wonderful frame to showcase your cherished photo. Let’s start!

Things you need

1. Colourful felt pieces or sheets

2. White glue

3. Scissors

4. Hot glue

5. Pieces of cardboard

6. Ruler and pencil

7. White paper

8. Bottle caps

Directions

1. To start off our felt photo frame. Grab two pieces of cardboard that are 7 inches long and 4 inches wide. You can adjust these measurements based on the size of the photo you want in a frame. Also, cut two strips of cardboard to complete the frame, picture 2.

2. Take one of the cardboard pieces and create a neat front side of the photo. Using your ruler and pencil, carefully mark and cut out a rectangle shape in the centre of the cardboard, making sure to leave a one-inch border around the edges. This will be the perfect space to showcase your picture, picture 3.

3. Next, take the remaining piece of cardboard and give it a clean and polished look by pasting white paper on it, smoothing out any wrinkles as you go, picture 4.

4. Take the cardboard strips we cut earlier and paste them with hot glue along the edges of the white surface, leaving the top side, put this aside for a while, picture 5.

5. Grab a felt sheet and cut it into a rectangular border shape, making sure it’s half the size of the frame. Now, using some glue, carefully paste the felt border to the top side of the rectangular frame, picture 6.

6. Cut a piece from the green felt to serve as the bottom of the frame, and shape its edges in a circular, curved, or grass-like design, as shown in picture 7.

7. It’s time to add flowers to our frame! Take some bottle caps and multi-coloured felt pieces. Use the bottle caps to trace and cut out circles from the felt in four different sizes. These circles will serve as flowers. Now, you have to get creative with the colours and sizes to make each flower unique, pictures, 8 and 9.

8. Paste the felt circles, along with small leaves and stems, onto the frame, pictures 10 and 11.

9. It’s time to paste the frame on its clean base, we made earlier, picture 12.

10. To display your photo frame, you can either make a loop of string and paste it behind the frame to hang it on the wall, or you can create a stand from cardboard in a triangle shape and paste it behind the frame for tabletop display, picture 13.

Viola, what a wonderful frame!

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Published in Dawn, Young World, July 22th, 2023