Never Grow Up Flower Memory Frame by Lisa Haney

Never Grow Up Flower Memory Frame

Designed by Lisa Haney 

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay®

White (comes in the Memory Frame Kit)

Recommended Makin’s® Tools

Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame Kit

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s® Push Mold - Florals

Other Materials:

Beacon™ Tacky Glue

Cardboard

Exacto Blade

Oil Paint - Burnt Umber and a set of colors

Paint Brush

Paper Towels

Picture

Poem

Rubber Gloves

Scissors

Method

Open the Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame Kit and remove the white clay.  Open the clay with the scissors. 

Mold leaves and flowers using the Makin’s® Push Mold - Florals.  I made six each of five different   I bent the leaves to give them some shape.  Set aside to dry.

flowers, 50 bigger leaves, and several smaller leaves.

Cut a piece of cardboard which fits into the shadow box side of the frame (about 6 6/8” x 5).  Lay the picture in the center of the cardboard and trace around it.  Draw a line ¼” toward the center.  This will be the frame for the flowers and leaves.

Lay the cardboard on the Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat.  Cut  Discard the center piece.

the center piece out with the exacto blade.

Begin gluing the flowers and leaves to the frame with the Beacon™ Tacky Glue.  They should hang over slightly on each side of the frame.  Because the flowers and leaves will be flexible, they will bend when the frame is inserted into the Memory Kit Frame.

Continue until the entire frame is covered.  Set aside to allow the glue to dry.

Glue leaves to two flowers and also set aside to allow the glue to dry.

To antique the frame, put the rubber gloves on and begin painting the frame with the burnt umber oil paint.  Make sure paint into the crevasses.

Immediately rub the oil paint off with a paper towel leaving it in the details and the crevasses. 

Complete the whole frame.

Do the same for the two flowers.

Put a small amount of green oil paint on a paper towel and rub it onto a leaf.  Immediately rub it off. 

Continue with other colors until the whole frame has been painted.  Repeat any colors if they get painted over or are not dark enough.  Let dry.

Repeat with the two flowers.

Tape your picture at the back of the frame on the shadow box side..  Slide a plastic mat over the picture.  Gently push the flower frame into the memory frame until it is pressed against the plastic mat.  Slide another plastic mat into the front of the frame.

Add the poem to the opposite frame (not the shadow box side) using the picture mat to frame it.  Slide a plastic mat over the top of it.  Cut a piece of the double-sided adhesive tape from the Memory Kit and attach it to the small flowers.  Attach the flowers to the plastic mat on the poem side.

Use a different mold and repeat the whole process for the other sides of the frames!