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  • English Garden Frame
  • From "DIY Crafts"
    episode DIC-258
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    A variety of items -- dried flowers, ribbons or toys -- increase your options and can vary the garden motif.

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    Figure A

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    Figure B

    Author Nancy Javier creates a distressed frame with an English garden theme.

    Materials:

    Unfinished wooded frame with wide, flat molding
    Paint
    2 mini half-pots
    1 mini shovel
    Spanish moss
    Sandpaper
    Foam brush
    Small dried plants or leaves
    Seed-packet image or photograph
    Glue gun, glue sticks

    1. Use foam brush to paint frame. Allow to dry thoroughly before applying second coat.

    2. To distress the frame, use coarse sandpaper to remove some of the paint from the frame's surface (figure A).

    3. Glue Spanish moss to frame.

    4. Glue mini pots over Spanish moss. Insert dried leaves in pots.

    5. Glue shovel to the frame (figure B).

    6. Insert seed packet or photograph into frame.


    RESOURCES :
    Picture Frames in an Afternoon
    Model: 0806937548
    Author: Kaye Evans

    Country Living Handmade Frames: Decorative Accents for Your Home
    Model: 068816773X
    Author: Editors of Country Living Magazine

    Making Picture Frames
    Model: 1550745050
    Author: Linda Hendry

    Fantastic Frames: Over 60 Unique Framing Ideas
    Model: 0865734186
    Author: Creative Publishing International

    Make Your Own Fun Frames!
    Model: 1885593643
    Author: Matt Phillips


    GUESTS :
    Nancy Javier
    Banar Designs
    P.O. Box 483
    Fallbrook, CA 92088
    Phone: (760) 728-0344
    Fax: (760) 728-3284
    Email: banar@earthlink.net
    Author of The Great Frame-up: 40 Fast Ways to Dress-up Ordinary Frames
    President of Banar Designs

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