Make a multi photo frame to renew your photographs !!!

Stop with the photo frames solidified for eternity? You want to have permanently your last photographs under youreyes ? You wish to renew them each time you receive your developed photographs ?

Then you need a MULTIPLE PHOTO FRAME !

It is not quite difficult to build and, when you've finished it, you will understand that those you can find in the stores are too much expensive !

In this page, you will build multiple photo frame itself… in this other page, you will build the wood-frame to put it inside and used to exposing it! (Click on the photo to see the final result)

the material

For the back part:

- a backing paperboard (0.08" to.. 0.12") of 21"x17" or thin plywood.
- a piece of duffel fabric of same measurements
- a piece of flax natural color a little larger (or a printed cloth)
- small buttons or brads as you like.
- artisanal flax string.
- 5 decorative buttons (coconut) and 5 small ordinary buttons.
- Double-coated Adhesive tape .
- glue, a cutter, a large needle and sewing thread

Backing board

The visible part of the multiple photo frame must measure 16"high on 20" width… it is expected that it is put within a wood frame which you will build according to these dimensions.

If you don't wish to make the wood-frame by yourself , get a low-price frame in Wall-Mart (Gifi, Foirfouille… in France...) and adapt backing board measurements according the picture frame you've found.

In our example, the backing paperboard must measure 16.2" on 20.2". Cut out it with the cutter in a paperboard sheet of 0.12" or buy a plywood of 0.2" in a Do-it-yourself store .

Pose double-coated adhesive tape on the 4 edges of the backing paperboard. Stick then the duffel on it. Press for a well-glue. Cut out the exceeding duffel with the scissors all along the paperboard edges.

It is now necessary to cover with a natural linen cloth or a printed fabric .

Fixing the flax fabric on the backing board.

Cut out flax cloth by envisaging a margin of 2.5" to 3.5" all around the paperboard. Don't forget to iron the fabric before posing it on the duffel.

You will fix flax cloth with fasten on the backing paperboard with a small stapler. Staples are small, and pierce gently the paperboard. They will be invisible on the face side of your multi photo frame.

To have a correct tension and to avoid having folds, start with the mediums of each side.

When you finish, your flax will be perfectly tended on the duffel :

Installation of the flax strings

The photographs which you will put in the MPF will be held by tended strings in diagonal on the face of it.

I chose an artisanal string of braided flax… You can also take ribbons… or other, with your suitability, but the ribbon masks a little the photographs…

Start with the large diagonals : fasten with stapples on the back of MPF the first string (fold up at the end to be certain that holds well)

Mark then the middles of each side on the multi-photo frame … and again tighten strings and fasten them with staples on the back of the MPF.

The buttons

So that the cords hold the photographs perfectly they must be tended and fixed on the MPF at each intersection.

For that, you will fix a decorative button on the face side … and a small button of maintenance on other side.

Make the hole in the paperboard with a large needle and a small hammer while passing through the two strings which cross.

You have thus 5 buttons to place… on each side!

The multiple photo frame finished

If you've finished to manufacture the wood frame proposed in the wood section, the work is completed… Place your multiple photo frame within its wood frame and fix it on the back with some fine nails inserted in skew in the false moulding…

2 eye screws... a wire... a nail on the wall and :

Place your photographs… and hang it on the wall. You've did it!