Rosette Frame-tutorial

 

I am prone to starting projects, but I never get to the finish line with them, pretty much all of them.  Well this time I was determined to finish.

Lets just say that I have a three month old baby, and no pictures of my beautiful girl anywhere.  Here is what I did to fix that little problem….

Cute right? It was a little time consuming but worth it to me.  Here is how to make your own.

 

Supplies needed:

• Any frame you want to transform (mine is an unfinished one from the craft store)
• Glue gun
• Scissors
• Sheets of felt (I used five on this frame. frame dimensions are about the size of a sheet of paper and the hole for the picture is a 4X6)

The felt is not expensive so make sure you buy enough of the color you need so you don’t have to make a dang fun trip back to the store for one more…..not that I had to do that or anything…lol.

 

Tip:  paint the edges of the frame, or cover them in the same color as the felt…do that also to the front of the frame edges.  you will see that I had to piece mine together.  I was too excited to get the rosettes on that I really didn’t think about the edges.  I learned and will do that first next time.

After prepping your frame cut out the strips for the rosettes

I folded the piece of felt in half, then half again. (like a Hamburger not a Hot dog.  That is how my elementary teacher would have explained it.)

Starting at one end start cutting a wavy strip off the end.  One side of the strip will be wavy and the other straight.

Next cut a straight line, it will then look like the first strip.  continue cutting the strips off the end till you have used up the whole piece of felt.  After you have cut up all the felt we will start making the rosettes.

Roll up the wavy strips of felt as shown above.  This is the part that seems to take forever.  The great part about using felt is that it sticks to itself and your rosette will stayed rolled up, you can just set it aside or start putting them on your frame. see…..

The best part is gluing the rosettes on, I love seeing it come together.  And here is the final product.  I embellished it with a scrapbook flower to give it a little color.

I love the texture the rosettes give to the frame, doesn’t it just look precious for my sweetie?  It is super easy, you should make one for yourself.  If you do I would love to see your take on it.  Have a wonderful day.

Ash Rae