Birthday Wall-hanging Idea

Hey there!

Today I wanted to share with you a neat project you can put together for someone's birthday. My beautiful mother's birthday was earlier this month, so I presented this to her. As you can see below, she absolutely adores it!

I was inspired for this project by vintage Polaroid pictures and ideas on how to hang them up in your room. At first, I wanted to just present her a stack of vintage Polaroids or at least put them into a scrapbook page. Since I gave her individual scrapbook pages on nearly every occasion, I decided to change it up a bit. 

So here are a couple of pictures of the final product. I will describe the steps I used to make it and the materials needed below.

Supplies:

• Cardboard/Corkboard (approx. 10" x 20.5")
• Maroon/Burgundy fabric (should cover front of cardboard base)
• Natural burlap (should cover about 3/4 of front of cardboard base)
• "Naturally Coiled" wire (should cover length of cardboard base in addition to handle)
• Small/Medium clothespins
• 2.5" x 2.5" printed photos
• Letter stickers/Cardstock
• White acrylic/fabric paint
• Dotted foam stamp
• Any other embellishments

Steps:

1. Cover your cardboard base with the burgundy fabric. Use hot glue to adhere the fabric to the back side of the base (Tim Holtz TONIC Scissors work great with cutting basically anything.).
2. Cover a part of the front of the cardboard base with the natural burlap and glue it down (Don't mess with the ends of the Burlap as they fray easily. You can use an anti-fray serum or glue such as Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS.)
3. Cut your wire and run it across the length of the front of the base. Hot glue the ends on the backside of the base.
4. Take some more wire (for the handle up top) and adhere the ends to the backside of the base. Use scrap fabric to secure the ends of the wire to the back.
5. Hot glue the back of your clothespins to the base and insert your photographs.
6. Use letter stickers or cut out cardstock for the greeting of your wall-hanging.
7. Dip the dotted foam stamp into the white acrylic paint and stamp it on some empty spaces on the wall-hanging.
8. Let everything dry, and you're finished!

I hope you liked the idea, as it is such a cute project to make for someone you love or someone that is close to you. It is really versatile, as you can incorporate several different ideas with the same project! Thanks for visiting, and come back soon for some more snipping and scrapping!

-Daisy Parker