[paper picture frame]

I'm visiting a long-time friend of mine for afternoon tea today to celebrate her birthday, so thought I'd make a little 'something' to take with me as a gift. We share an art background, so something hand-made is perfect, and also an opportunity for me to practice some of my newfound quilling skills. (I'm still perfecting my gluing skills though, as the shiny glue that's visible on the beautifully texture matt board is not my ultimate desired result. Never mind though, I'm still learning!)

But rather than put these pretty flowers onto a card, I thought I'd make a picture frame to display it in. Instead of getting the timber, mitre box and hand saw out (which I've been known to do before), I've been getting some great ideas from some quilling blogs I've been reading. This paper picture frame is so simple, but looks really impressive!

As the coloured card I had was only an A4 sheet, I decided to make the frame edge 1 x 1cm (instead of the 1 x 2cm in the pattern) so I ended up with a frame size of about 12cm square. This allowed a nice framing matt around the mounted flowers.

I'm pretty impressed with the result, and will definitely be using this on other projects!