Do you ever start one of those projects that you think will take 30 minutes to finish, and it ends up taking a whole lot longer? That is how this project went for me! I picked up these cute frames and planned on coming home and taking a few minutes to spray paint them. Little did I know, spray paint doesn’t stick on MDF frames, even if they are primed good. I spent two hours spray priming, sanding, and trying to spray paint these. I finally decided that it would work better to use acrylic paint, so I got out my sander and sanded down all of the spray paint and started painting again.
I was hoping to get these finished quickly so I could get them in the mail. I was sending a package to Debbie, and wanted to give these to her. A few years back, her and I both bought some little magnetic frames at the Mesa Scrapbook Convention. We only bought three each, and I now have four kids and she will be having her fourth in a couple of months, so we both needed new frames to put our kids pictures in on the fridge. So when I saw these, I thought they would be perfect for that.
After I finally got these cute things painted, I distressed them just a tad with some sandpaper.
They are perfect for a wallet sized picture. {I was actually going to make a 5×7 one of these for mothers day for my mom and mil, but because the frames are so chunky, I didn’t end up doing that.}
I couldn’t resist wrapping these things up in cute packaging. I just used some brown wrapping paper, and tied twine around them.
I think it added some fun detail to the whole package, and I hope that Debbie is enjoying them! Now I can’t wait to finish the ones I got for my refrigerator! I got them all painted, I just had to pick up some more magnets so I can hang them.
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