Christmas Embellished Patchwork Aperture Photo Frame

Forgive me, it doesn’t happen very often, but I am revisiting a Christmas project from two year ago, to wit my Christmas patchwork aperture photo frames.

I need to, as I have another ten frames taking up space under the bed from the 2019 Poundland sale where they were reduced to just 25p each, well, it would have been rude not to buy one or two, but they are serving no purpose unless I actually use them.

So, the plan is, after making this first one to reacquaint myself as to how I put the last lot together for Christmas 2018, to set aside a whole weekend to get them all done and dusted …….. and I have been organised, in preparation I have sorted out all the embellishments I already had, that were all roughly the right proportion for the frame and each other.

I also decided, rather than spend hours hunting for suitably matching papers in my boxes, I would instead limit myself to using papers from the Origami stacks I got from The Works (£5 each).  They have a more modern feel/colour way to them and in that respect the frames should be a little different from the 2018 originals.

I will use the completed frame above as a guide, but as I don’t think I have enough embellishments to make nine identical frames there will need to be some variation ………

…….. so rather than do all the backgrounds all in one go I will probably work on just two or three frames at a time so I can even out the embellishments and adjust the backgrounds if/when I need to use something new, if you see what I mean.

Once all the background with the embellishments are done, I will then be able to add all the time consuming frou frou, i.e the googly eyes, flat back gems, stars and faux stitching ……. that’s the plan anyway!

Before I went mad, I put two frames aside so that I can make something similar for Iris and Bertie for their rooms, but that can be on display all the year round.

NB: I remove and throw away all the glass before I start any work on the frames.