Paper Sack Christmas Art and DIY Frame
My grandma is hilarious. Not in a “joke-telling” or “slap stick comedy” kind of way, but she’s just….funny. I just love her.
The most exciting part of anyone’s birthday party or Christmas get together is seeing what random thing she put in everyone’s gift bag. She always throws in a little something silly with the actual gift and you NEVER KNOW what it will be. A couple Christmases ago, she threw in a random little cow figurine with my gift and a fat little owl statue with my birthday gift. Danny got a solar powered turkey with his birthday gift this year and we leave it in the window sill and it flaps it’s wings like crazy! In years past, I’ve thrown these things in a “junk drawer,” but lately, I try to find places to set them around to make me think of Granny and have a giggle or two.
So I said all that to say that last year, the best Christmas gift I got was a random paper grocery sack that Granny wrapped my gift in. She sometimes wraps gifts in any kind of random container…I swear, she cracks me up. She’s so frugal.
The most exciting part of anyone’s birthday party or Christmas get together is seeing what random thing she put in everyone’s gift bag. She always throws in a little something silly with the actual gift and you NEVER KNOW what it will be. A couple Christmases ago, she threw in a random little cow figurine with my gift and a fat little owl statue with my birthday gift. Danny got a solar powered turkey with his birthday gift this year and we leave it in the window sill and it flaps it’s wings like crazy! In years past, I’ve thrown these things in a “junk drawer,” but lately, I try to find places to set them around to make me think of Granny and have a giggle or two.
So I said all that to say that last year, the best Christmas gift I got was a random paper grocery sack that Granny wrapped my gift in. She sometimes wraps gifts in any kind of random container…I swear, she cracks me up. She’s so frugal.
And I thought this sack was the coolest thing I had ever seen! I kept it all year to use as decoration for this Christmas, but wasn’t sure what to do with it. I thought about some sort of decoupage but I didn’t want to do anything permanent or damaging. So I finally decided to just frame it. But obviously, paper sacks don’t come in standard picture frame sizes, so I had to make a simple little frame from some 1x2s. It’s a really quick project and easily customizable.
I attached these together, then added an outside "border" using my nail gun.
Once everything was attached all the way around, I stained it and placed my paper sack in the new frame.
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Thank you, love this! I have a cute, older Christmas sack and was wondering just yesterday how I could display it. Now I'm off to frame ALL THE THINGS!
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I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE FINISHED PROJECT - INSTEAD OF SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VASES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CRAFT ITEM.
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