My first anniversary with my boyfriend is coming up in about a week. And… I have NO money. But I was thinking that I’d like to give him a nicely framed picture of the two of us. And to make it a little nicer I figured that I could somehow make a frame that looks like an old-ish television set since he restores antique TVs for a living.
Unfortunately, I can’t get past the* idea * into actually how to accomplish this.
Any ideas would be welcomed. Thanks!
OK, see if you can envision this, which I am making up as I write this. Get an el cheapo 99¢ Wal-Mart acrylic photo frame. Find a good quality image of an old TV. Enlarge it enough that the screen part of the TV is just slightly smaller than the height of the frame. (I’m envisioning a horizontal photo.) Make the best quality printout of the image that you can.
Affix the TV image to a piece of foam core, and with an X-acto knife with a brand new blade, trim out the screen, leaving a hole. Trim around the outline of the TV. Use a black Sharpie or similar to color the exposed white edge of the foam core, both on the outside edge and around the hole.
Put your photo in the frame and use a hot glue gun to attach the TV to the frame.
You could do something similar with fabric instead of paper, using the iron-on transfer sheets that you can run through an inkjet (or laser, depending on what you have – just buy the appropriate kind of sheet). Once you image is on fabric, you can embellish it with embroidery, beads, whatever.
Thanks, freckafree. That’s a great idea!
Actually, I was sort of stumbling in that direction on my own. I found on Walgreen’s website that you can get an 8x10 printed for only 1.59. So I’m getting a pic of an old TV that he owns printed. I hadn’t thought of the cheapie frame part, though.
Where to get the foam core? I’m guessing WalMart or Joann’s.
You can get foam board at Michaels, or similar stores. Don’t know about Joann’s.
Yep, and foam core is cheap. A cheap frame at Walmart is probably the least expensive route. I was thinking, too, about those canvas stretcher bar wood frames at the craft stores that would give you a good, flat surface to mount the “tv” to. You have to buy 2 sets, a pair of 8" and a pair of 10" and then assemble them to make the 8 x 10 frame. They’re in the framing section.
And maybe foam core isn’t the best base, because it gets dinged and dented pretty easily.
You might do just as well with one of those dense foam craft sheets (or a couple of them, stacked and glued together).
I just had to show you the finished product!
It’s not perfect, but I think it will pass muster. Thanks for all the advice.
That is stinking cute! Holy cow, Always Brings Pie! Great job!
That turned out fantastic! Have you given it to him yet? Was he surprised?
Our anniversary is Wednesday, so I’ll be giving him the picture then.
CutiePie that is adorable!!! You did a great job, I bet he will be thrilled with it!
Yeah you did a great job!!
