Vintage Book Turned Photo Frame

Good Morning!

I have a fun and easy project to share today.

Like many of you, I have a very large stash of vintage books. I used them all the time in my home decor but lately I've been trying to use them in unconventional ways.

This is one idea I came up with.

Fun right?

Truth be told, I was a little leery to start cutting into the cover of a book for the first time so I picked a book that had a very rough looking cover to use first.  That way if it didn't turn out I wouldn't feel so bad.

Hesitation aside, I'm loving how it turned out.

I simple used an exact-o knife and a straight edge to cut out a square from the cover of the book.

Then I took clumps of book pages (about 15 pages each) and cut out a smaller sized square.  I repeated this process three times until I had a square that overlapped the photo I wanted to use by an eighth on an inch.  Finally I used a piece of double sided tape to attach the photo to the book.

Super fast, and easy to do.

I know I'll be making so more of these soon!

Next time I'll use a vintage book with a prettier cover or perhaps add some sort of embellishment to the front of a plain cover like this.

bye now,

Robin

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