Having recently gotten married I wanted to display some of our best photographs. At the same time, I did not want huge photo frames lying all
around the house and taking over my home décor. So I had to think of a way to
make something different. In this post I will share the procedure for a fun way
to display precious photographs in your house. But before I go on with the
procedure, I would like to mention that I have substituted photos with some
pictures due to privacy issues and not wanting my precious photos to be shared
publically. In my video I have shown one way of making the wall hanging. Here,
I will elaborate on that procedure as well as share a second way of making it.
Method 1:
For this I have mainly used squares of 6 cm length and width
along with string in addition to the usual glue, scissors, paints etc. I agree
that this is a very small size for displaying photographs, but since I was
making the video on the procedure it made my life simpler. Therefore, to
properly display photographs, you might need to use cardboard cut outs for a
reasonably bigger size. This would be totally up to your discretion.
First I poked a hole into all four corners of the square.
Following this, I widened the hole with a toothpick. Then I inserted a string
into the hole with the help of the same toothpick. I pulled out the string from
the adjacent hole of a second square and tied both ends. I repeated this
procedure on both sides.
The next step is to repeat procedure until you are satisfied
with the length of the wall hanging. A note here also that for the square which
comes at the extreme lowest position only poke two holes since there would be
no connection from the lower side. And for the top holes of the topmost square,
I loop a string between the holes in order to make it a hanging. Personally I would have been happier with a
longer length of the same. But for the sake of my video and blog I have used a
six square length. I have attached some string to the top two holes of the
topmost square in order to make a loop from which it can be hung. And finally I
have stuck similar squares on the back end of the wall hanging. This is to give
it a neater appearance and not show the threads more than needed.
I then painted the whole thing blue with the strings painted
pink. I used acrylic colours for the same. Once the paint was dry I applied a
few coats of varnish so that the stickiness of the paint disappears. Now all
that was left to do was decorate it. I had initially planned to give a border
with quilled paper so that it would look like a frame. But since the size of
the wall hanging was small as it is, I chose to use some glass paints to
decorate the borders. And so as to not leave the whole thing empty I made some
small warli drawings on paper and stuck it to the centre of each square. To be
honest, for this version of my wall hanging I quite prefer having the warli
drawings rather than sticking photos since that would end up being super tiny.
And the warli drawings really look nice and smart and brighten up my room.
P.S. At present I have hung the wall hanging on my fan regulator
Method 2:
For the second method, I used slightly bigger sized
rectangular shaped cardboard cut outs. And since the size of the cardboard was
bigger, I had to think of a better idea for the string. This is because it will be difficult for a simple string to hold the weight of the wall hanging. So I used three equal
pieces of string and plaited them together. I used these to stick two pieces of
the cardboard at both sides. Here I did not struggle to make any holes in the
cardboard.
I built up on this until I was happy with the length. For
the top hanging portion I used a longer length of plait and made a semi-oval
like structure and stuck it to the top. Similar to the other design, I used
some cardboard cut outs to stick to the back part so that the end product would
not look messy.
Again, I used glass paints to decorate the borders. For this
particular wall hanging I fully intend to get photos printed and stuck to it.
For a project a few years back I had gotten labels printed in a Printo (I don’t
know if they have a branch here in Mumbai, this was in Bangalore) shop. I plan
on trying something similar. I can choose my pictures and edit it to the
correct size and request them to print it out on label paper. This makes my
life simpler to attach the photo to the wall hanging.
For purely representational purposes because my husband
thought I should not leave the space empty while I blog about it, I have drawn
some cute animal pictures and placed them on the empty spaces. Since I plan on
using photo labels, I have not stuck these to the wall hanging.
So there you go, that’s two ways of making a photo moments
wall hanging. Personally, I like the second version better especially because I
will actually get to stick some photos on to this. But for a regular wall hanging I quite liked my last minute idea of making the warli drawings. I think I am going to make longer ones with warli drawings to hang at the edges of our windows when I have more time on hand.
I hope you liked this post and if you have any comments
please feel free to let me know. If you have yet to watch my video, please do
so on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGPhAk-3-A. Do subscribe to my youtube channel for more fun ideas.
