This is a quick, easy project – my favorite kind 🙂 – to add some color to wall art and/or photography. It’s removable and changeable for the commitment-phobic like myself.
Click HERE to check out another way to add color to wall art and photography 🙂
Materials:
- Frame with mat
- Large sheet of colored paper*
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Painter’s tape
*I like Canson Mi-Teintes drawing papers (available at arts/crafts stores like Michael’s, Binders, Hobby Lobby, etc). Cardstock is too thick to use for this project. Believe me: I tried and got so frustrated the cardstock and the frame almost got thrown out on the front lawn. That’ll show ’em…
This might seem like a lot of steps, but I promise, it’s really not! I just wanted to make sure to photograph all the steps.
- Disassemble the frame, and center the mat face down on the colored paper.
- Trace around the inside of the mat.
- Draw a diagonal line from each corner (X-shape, doesn’t have to be perfect).
- Set mat aside, and cut along diagonal lines to form 4 triangles. I usually stick 1 end of the scissors through the intersection of the lines, and cut from there.
- Replace mat, using the traced outline as a guide.
- Fold back triangles, and tape as shown, trimming if necessary.
- Fold and tape 2 of the 4 sides.
- Fold each corner up to the mat.
- Unfold corners, and cut along the indentions.
- Fold remaining 2 sides, and tape to mat.
Photo of Niagara Falls (Canadian side): I did NOT get in that boat, but it was fun to photograph it 🙂
- Reassemble frame, and voila!
Be sure to check out How-To: Add Color to Wall Art & Photography (Part I)!