I made a promise to myself years, and years ago that when I grew up I'd only have original art, and artist prints in my home. Though I've been pretty good at keeping to this, there have definitely been times that I look at an empty wall and think to myself, "Maybe I should just buy that box store art this one time." My inner decorator gets sad at half dressed rooms. To combat this urge to buy cheap reproductions, or mass produced art I've made the decision to incorporate creative photo displays using our own photographs. Enter this easy instagram project...
The supplies you'll need for this project is are pretty minimal. I used a 16"x20" frame, a white matte of the same size with a cut out of 9"x12", a large piece of thick paper (like bristol paper), photo corners, acid-free masking tape, 4"x4" instagram photos, and a black marker. I use PostalPix to print all of instagram photos, but everything else can be found at your local craft store.
The first step is to tape the bristol paper to the back of your matte, using the masking tape. Flip the matte back over, and arrange your instagram photos down the center of the bristol paper. I was only able to fit three down, but could have easily put two across if I wanted it to look a little fuller. I wanted to add a couple of fun captions next to my photos, so I offset them slightly to make room for the text.
Once you've arranged your instagram photos the way you like, peel off a couple of photo corers and start placing them on each point of your photo. Press the photo back into the paper, and continue until all of them are pressed down completely. Next, pick up your pen and write the captions next to your photos if you like. I didn't do anything fancy, just a brief description of the photo. I think it kind of makes them look like artifacts, or scientific specimen.
All you have left to do once you've gotten your captions written, is to put the matte in your frame and hang. The entire project took me less than 20 minutes, and it will hang in our home for a long time. Have you been refreshing your decor lately, what kind of projects have you been doing? big kiss, bekuh
this is so cute! i'd never though of just mounting little pictures inside a frame but this is awesome. i actually have a series of artists prints that i wanted to frame and now i think i'm going to try them like this!
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this is adorable, i can't WAIT to try it! I got a bunch of my instagrams turned into magnets for our fridge and it looks so cool, but I need to try this one for our living room :) I love how you labeled them
ReplyDeletereally beautiful. my husband and I are photographers so we have most of our walls covered with our prints. this would be a great addition! thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete~Jennifer
Well...you make this look easy enough, even though I am 100% sure I would mess it up!! Everything you create has such a lovely feel to it, even the way you have labelled the pictures!
ReplyDeleteIn our living room we have a gallery wall going on, hoping that after our trip to IKEA this weekend we can finally get more of our bits up there! We have quiee a few pieces of expensive original art so I think that negates some of the cheaper store bought bits!!
(sorry for all the exclaqmation marks there - I am not sure what has come over me!)
This looks absolutely gorgeous, one of the best Instagram displays I've seen so far xo
ReplyDeleteThis looks amazing, and very professional.
ReplyDeleteYou've reminded me to print off some of my IG photos so I'm going to check out that site, thank you!
Very nice. I need to do something with my instagram pictures. It's a resolution to print photos more instead of just having them on my computer / internet. Thanks for the inspiration :)
ReplyDeletesuch a good idea! i will definitely try this. xo
ReplyDeleteit's like a scrapbook page for your wall. - a wall full of memories. - simple and personal.
ReplyDelete- tianna :)
Very cute Bekuh! It's funny, I had the same conviction to hang up some of my own photographs this year, and although I have a fairly nice camera, I ended up selectiong all instagrams (now I just have to print them). You've validated my choice.
ReplyDeletesuch an awesome idea!
ReplyDeletei've been thinking of printing out instagram photos for gifts, this is way better!
xo the egg out west.
love this so much, bekuh!
ReplyDeleteit's like my own photos, but cooler.
What a pretty and simple idea! You are so cool dude! I have to do this soon! All over my house!
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God this is awesome. Definitely doing this to cover my white white walls.
ReplyDeleteI've started tackling a gallery-ish wall in our home, and this would be the perfect project for it.
ReplyDeleteThis is genius! This would make a wonderful gift too.
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Gorgeous! So simple and pretty.
ReplyDeleteLooks great, love this idea!
ReplyDeleteI have such an addiction to Instagram, I'm in love with any idea that has stemmed from it. The best part is that the time, energy & love put into the craft is all your own. I've done the magnets. I think this will be my next step.
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