How To Make A Picture Frame Out Of Clay

Learn How To Make A Picture Frame Out Of Clay. A picture frame is One of the most used objects in homes. You can have it in the living room or a room with a beautiful family photo.

So making a handmade photo frame for a gift would be perfect and have a lot of sentimental value.

Don’t worry; I will teach you step by step how you could do it to give a beautiful gift.

First, you must know that we will make the photo frame with the iron technique using cold porcelain. Together, They will give you magnificent results.

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Step 1: First, you will choose the photo you want to place in your photo frame. So you will know the exact measurements to do it.

Remember that the frame’s center should be the photo’s size, and the frame can be 3 or 5 cm thick to make it look great.

Step 2: With the measurements taken, you can now make a rectangle or square, depending on your photo, in the cold porcelain of the color you want to create the frame of the photo frame.

The depth of the edge of the frame can be 1.5 cm or 2 cm so that it is not so heavy.

Remember to knead the porcelain clay very well to make it easier to handle.

Step 3: Now cut out the center with the photo size you will place in your photo frame, and the frame will be ready.

Step 4: The good thing about the previous step is that you will not waste anything; you will use that small part of cold porcelain that you removed to make the background of the photo frame the part that will hold your photo.

Since it’s the same thickness as the frame and there needs to be room to place the photo, you can cut that little rectangle in half so it’s not as thick.

If you find this very complicated, you can create a new one the size of the photo and the necessary thickness.

You may wonder: How will I hold it up if I place it on a table? Don’t worry, we’ll explain it to you.

Step 5: For the support, you will cut a strip of porcelain 10 cm wide x 5 cm high x 5 mm deep.

Step 6: Then, with the strip horizontally, as you cut it and as you see it in the image, you are going to mark 1.5 cm from top to bottom at both ends of the rectangle, that is, on the left side and right.

Step 7: From the left side to the right, on the upper horizontal part, you will mark 4 cm with a dot, and on the lower part, which will be the straight side of the support, 3 cm.

Step 8: Now you have to join the points in the following way: the 1.5 cm from the left side with the 4 cm above and the 1.5 cm from the right side. And the left point of 1.5 with the one of 3 cm below.

It should look like the image below. With 3 diagonal lines and two lines, the original edges of the strip, the right side, and the bottom.

Step 9: It is time to cut where you marked the three lines to have the frame support ready. Your support will be the inside of the lines.

We know it is a bit complex to understand, so I make everything easier for you by leaving a clear example of where each measurement should go in the image below.

It will be very simple to carefully follow the steps by looking at the guide.

Step 10: To attach the support to the back of the photo frame, make a 3 x 3 cm porcelain square and glue one half to the support and the other half to the photo frame. The square ends up folded in a U shape, entirely in half.

You can measure exactly where you will place the support before placing it definitively to avoid errors, such as if it does not stop correctly or if the support is noticeable if you see the photo frame from the front.

Step 11: To have a unique photo frame and show that you made it, you can create small figures to stick on it. It will be much prettier that way, I assure you!