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Friday, June 28, 2013

Aluminium Foil Photo Frame

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Aluminium Foil Photo Frame 


Super talented Yvonne has a challenge on her blog and tutorial by Tone-Lill Angelskar to use something from your kitchen cupboard - aluminium foil here. The challenge is to create a paper project using aluminium foil and at least 2 upcycled items.
Aluminium Foil Photo Frame

I have made this photo frame from scratch. Used two pieces of  cardboard upcycled from a wedding invite,transparency sheet from packaging and jute twine to give texture to the front panel under the foil from a Mango carton. even the aluminium foil is recycled from using the foil that came with a food order as they use thicker foil for packaging.
Aluminium Foil Photo Frame


Foil Flower

I washed the foil with a light soap solution and dried with tissues, crushed the foil some more and doubled it to have a sturdier surface. Then cut the cardboards to size and marked and cut the window with my trusted paper knife. Glues the Jute rope on the front panel in squares and then the foil was pressed to create impression of the rope design. I have used a pen refill without ink to create little texture in the squares on the front panel. Fixed the foil on the front on three sides only( the fourth side is for sliding the pic in)  with Araldite as it gives a very strong bond. left it to dry overnight. Used Hobby ideas Metallic acrylic colors in green and blue to paint over the foil and distressed with wiping with a cloth while wet. Embellished it with a handmade flower using some crimped strips cut from foil and punched shapes..some sequins added for an extra touch of glitter!!


linking to Aluminium-foil-art-with-tone-lill
and The Itsy Bitsy 'All that Glitters' Challenge
and Artasticchallengeblog
Not just a housewife
and Let's Get Trendy Now!3 - Day 3: Handmade embellishments Embellishment used: handmade flower using some crimped strips cut from foil and punched shapes).

Hope you like it.

14 comments:

  1. Wow! super gorgeous! Love how you did it..:)

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  2. Superb one..love the details given..

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  3. I was wondering how you must have glued the foil hmm.mm..Araldite !! WOnderful up-cycling Suman and I loved the color on foil too !

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  4. what a fantastic upcycled aluninium paper project. Love your frame and how you made it. This is super cool!!!
    Thank you for joining in on my challenge over at Yvonnes blog Do More With Less :)

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  5. amazingly clever! Thanks so much for playing with us at Let's Get Trendy Now! 3

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  6. How cool is this?!! Thanks for playing along at ARTastic!

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  7. Isn't it a fabulous product to play with Suman? I have a little box that I made a while ago in a similar style.
    Your frame idea could be used in so many ways and is such a pretty colour.
    Thank you for joining in at ARTastic this month.

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  8. Very creative Suman - I'm amazed with what you have done with foil.

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  9. Wow, looks amazing -love the effect of the painted foil!

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  10. Holyyyyy beautiful!!! Thanks for playing along with Let's Get Trendy 3!!!!

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  11. Very clever. And great job on upcycling most of the items you used to make your fabulous project!

    Thank you so much for playing with my guest Tone-Lill's challenge and Let's Get Trendy Now!3.

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  12. Wonderful frame...andusing recycled goodies too! Fabulous Suman!
    Thank you for playing along at ARTastic.

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  13. What a fab idea, look how cool your frame turned out! thanks for joining in this month at ARtastic!

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