Salvaged Frame Project

Confession: I save stuff for future projects or purposes that I rarely get around to.

I'm a little embarrassed to say that the project I did today was actually about 7 years in the making.... but I finally got around to finding a purpose/ project for something I had tucked away!

My friend Nicole got married back in June of 2006. Some of the "groomscake" take-home treasures from that day were these simple, adorable Ikea picture frames that Nicole had used to make these:

It's just a gray piece of matte heavyweight paper with a white ribbon taped onto it, and in the middle of the ribbon is a tiny metal ring. (I am sure I actually have a few more of these hiding somewhere in my office!)

I saw this Pinterest idea months ago and decided that when I came across one of these frames from the wedding nearly 7 years ago, I would use it for this!

Voila! A little 10-minute project that I admittedly could have done forever ago with any design or free printable like this one.

All I did was:

• Wipe off the frame and use a damp Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to wipe off the dings and dirt, then wipe the frame off with Swiffer Duster Cleaner.
• Wipe plastic cover with Sprayway cleaner.
• Print off the free printable design (resized to fit the square frame), and cut the edges with my Fiskars straight-edge cutter. 
• Remove taped ribbon from gray heavyweight matte paper.
• Use glue stick to adhere printable to the heavyweight matte paper. 
• Put it all back together. 

I'm hoping to get more of these little projects done this next week!