What a Fun Craft Day

On Wednesday last week I got together with my friend Rita. She is the Mother-In-Law for my daughter and we are great friends. We enjoy many of the same things and we love getting together to craft. Rita is a Special Education teacher for children and is busy teaching throughout the school year. So we don't get together for our craft days until the summer break or sometimes the different breaks throughout the school year.

She had seen the frames I had made a while back and had placed on my blog and wanted to give them a try. So that was our project last week and are pictured here. I think they turned out really cute!! Rita said she really enjoyed learning how to make these and had Fun too!!! Thank you Rita for a fun day!!

I thought in case any of you were interested I would give you the directions here. These are for 1 Frame:

1. I used Cosmo Cricket double sided paper. It is best to use the heavier weight paper such as this when making this project.
2. Cut 4 pieces 3x4 from 3 different papers. When using 2 sided paper it is possible to use both sides needing fewer papers. All total you will need 12 pieces of 3x4 size.
3. Cut 2 pieces of chipboard 5x5.
4. Cut a 3x3 center out of 1 of these pieces of chipboard.
5. Cut a 5x5 piece of your papers for the background and adhere to the other piece of chipboard.
6. Take each of the 3x4 pieces and using a pencil or dowel roll into tubes on the long side on every piece.
7. You will glue 3 rolls to each side around the cutout window of chipboard. It is best to use a quick drying adhesive to adhere the rolls closed and to adhere to the chipboard.
8. To determine how tight you need to roll them fit 3 on one side of your frame first before gluing to determine if you have rolled them tight enough but not to tight. Another set of hands was especially helpful at this stage. Place the rolls even with one edge. As you go around the entire frame will get covered.
9. We used a marker (brown) in our case and went around the inside edge of the 3x3 opening to cover the raw chipboard color.
10. After all rolls have been glued to the frame place foam tape on the back of this piece on 3 sides leaving the top side open. Then attach to the bottom piece which has already been covered with the 5x5 sq of paper. This will allow you to place a picture in the frame.
11. Make an embellishment of yuour choice and glue to front right bottom corner. We used initials in this example and my previous examples I placed an ornament on one and a gift package on the other.
12. To finish take a short piece of ribbon and adhere to the back for hanging the frame.
13. Enjoy!!!

If you have any questions I will be happy to answer and help you out.