Recycled Picture Frames

Sorry about the hiatus folks, the summer was pretty hectic and I honestly forgot about this blog until just yesterday. However - I am excited to be writing again and sharing the cool stuff we've done with other people. Our first teen programs of the school year were this week, and we started them off by making picture frames out of recycled library cards. Why we have all these cards from other libraries, I'm not sure. We got new cards awhile back, so these must have been sent as samples, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. It's always nice to do recycled crafts - so cheap!

All you have to do is cut the cards up and glue them on to a frame. We have a frame die for our Accucut machine and we get mat board donated from a nearby

framery, so that was no cost to us either. I'm sure other picture frames would work well, we were just going with what we've got. The first one I did, I tried to do even sized squares (top right pic), but I think I like having all the different sizes better. The few kids that showed up really liked it (this first one wasn't really well advertised), and I think I'll use it again in the future.

Stay tuned - I'm going to try to catch up on the last few months that I missed!