One of my closest friends is moving across the country with her family. She  just got an instax and I know that she would love something to hang those pictures and also cards and pictures from her friends and family here on. So off it goes with her on her new adventure.

For the convienince of showing you all. I hung it in my living room and put some of my instagram prints on it. :)( I just order all these prints and more from Postal Pix)

Basically I just found a framed canvas at the Thrift Store. When I am not planning on using glass in a framed project I try and find a frame without glass for less waste.  I took the canvas out and removed all the nails holding it in, but left the hanging wire.

I then painted the frame. I used acrylic craft paint I had on hand and it worked great.  I then made the garland. I fused printed fabric to the back of this white cotton duck for more stiffness and so that it would not fray. I then cut out the pendant shapes.  On my silhouette, I cut out the word SNAP from fabric with a fusible interfacing. Then I simply ironed the words on the pendants. Once that was done I took twine and zig zag stitched the pendants to it with about a 1/4″ inbetween each pendant so when it was hung the pendants wouldn’t bump into each other.

I then stapled the twine to the back of the frame so it hung over the top edge.

For the strings to hold pictures, I just took twine and stapled it to the back as taught as possible.  I attached 3 strings as that is what would fit with them being roughly 5″ apart. I thought that would be a nice distance apart to hang normal or smaller sized pictures.

I found these tiny little clothespins in my box of wood items. They are tiny,  less than an inch. The instagram prints hanging are 4″ square.

I think this is such a fun way to hang photos. I hope that my friend can fill it with lots of reminders of home, and fun pictures of her family’s new adventures. :)

Now I need to make one for me!

Please share with me if you make, or have made, something similar. I would love to check it out. :)

Thanks for stopping by!