Magnetic Gallery Frames
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Channel: Home Made Simple · 2015 · Howto & Style
KEN: Hi, I’m Kenneth Wingard from Home Made Simple. I’m going to show you how to make gallery frames that are magnetic. When you got a lot of kids, you got a lot of artwork coming in and out. You’ve got a lot of photos coming in and out. Do you like your stuff being displayed and on view? LEVI: Yeah. KEN: So, all we’re going to need here is standard shadow box gallery frames. I’ve taken off the backs. And then a sheet of galvanized metal. And this you can get at the craft store or hardware store. I think this was 7 or 8 dollars for the full sheet. Alright, why don’t you grab two of those smaller backs there. Trace that, give me a good trace on there. And then I’m going to snip this out here. And you can just get regular metal snippers. I’m actually using gloves only because the edges can get a little sharp. There we go! Yeah now you’re going to have a little bit of ripples on the end, but you can just bend those with our special gloves. So now we’re going to hold this in place with a little super glue. Very good. Pop it in place. Alright sir, which is the frame that you traced here. Was it this one? Ok...so then what we have is a totally metal back frame. And what you can do is pop up some photos. WOMAN: That’s really cute. KEN: And just use standard magnets. As photos come in, as the kids artwork comes in from school you can continually swap them out. We’ll take these other sizes and then we’ll hang them all on the wall in a different arrangement like this, depending upon the shape. WOMAN: Super cute! KEN: And all this was what? A dollar picture frame and an 8 dollar piece of metal is going to give us a whole gallery. WOMAN: I love it!
