While preparing for the big birthday party I decided that our guest half bath in the front of the house (that everyone would be using during the party) needed a little something to jazz it up. There was one wall that was just blank and that just wasn’t flying with me. So I had 3 of my favorite beach photos from the past year printed in a beautiful lustre coating, 8×10. So with 3 prints in hand I was struggling on the best way to display them. The wall I wanted them on is on the narrow side so my first thought of putting them on a shelf/ledge wasn’t going to work. I was going to have to just hang them on the wall but as I was walking through Michael’s to pick out some {cheap} frames I came up with the idea to “tie” the frames together with ribbon so I didn’t have to actually hang them in a straight line! I don’t know about you but I am HORRIBLE at hanging pictures, especially if they have to be level or straight with another piece. This method allowed me to hang them, all straight, just using 1 nail!!
Insert your photos into your frames and lay them out on the floor in the pattern you want them to hang on your wall.
Make sure the distance between the frames is exactly the same between every frame and on each side. In retrospect you should do this step AFTER you’ve flipped your frames over.
Measure distance between frames and length from the edge of the frame to where you want the ribbon to hang and make small marks on the back of the frames.
Starting with the bottom frame, lay your ribbon along the dots you’ve made, leaving enough ribbon above your top photo to hang your finished triple frame (basically make a large U). Continue back down the other side of your frame. Secure the ribbon to the frame with your staple gun. Hang a nail on your wall, hang the triple frame by the ribbon and you are done! (I ended up adding a nail under the 2nd and 3rd photo to give a little support so that not all the weight was pulling on the ribbon)
Look at those little piggies!!!!
Stacy that is so cute! And a great way to hang pictures without too much work! My hubby is a perfectionist about hanging pictures, but I would just stick a nail in the wall and start hanging:)
very, very cute.. i love it!
I love the photo display and I especially love the picture of the little toes. My word that is precious!
cute idea. I am horrible at hanging pictures too, in fact I have more holes behind the pics in my house then I have pics hanging!