I love having a fireplace, which gives me an awesome mantel to decorate. It's been 8 months so I had to start doing something to it, around it, over it, anything.
I broke out all of my old frames I've been saving to re-purpose and had just the right one for this project. This is the before picture, but I had already taken the matte and picture out of the frame so I sat them together so you get the idea of what it started out as.
I spray painted the frame black and the matte white.
I found some material I liked and wrapped it around the board the picture was on. I hot glued it on the back to secure it.
Then I spray painted a wooden D black and hot glued it on top of my fabric.
Stuck it all back in the frame, minus the glass, and done.
This was one of the quickest projects I've ever done and I really like how it turned out.
A couple of things I might change on it later...
1) I would put some hot glue under the fabric where the letter is hot glued to it. Now that it is hanging it is kind of heavy and pulls on the fabric. You don't really notice it, but I do and it bugs me.
2) I would paint the letter with acrylic paint. With the wooden letter I got, it doesn't absorb the paint really well and makes it look a little streaked. Again, I don't think it's that noticeable, but it bugs me.
Happy monogramming.
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