DIY Wall Decor - Pressed Glass Frame

Hi, I'm Jennifer with Jennifer Decorates, and today I have got a really easy do-it-yourself wall decor idea that I think you're really going to love, so stay tuned. I'm going to show you how to make your own pressed glass frame. If you've never heard that before, all it is, you've got a regular frame with your glass on the front and usually cardboard on the back. So instead of the cardboard on the back, we're going to put another piece of glass and have two pressed glass pieces together. You can put a special certificate in there, special leaves or pressed flowers, but I decided what I'm going to put in mind is, this is an old songbook that I sang from as a little girl, and this is well over 40 something years old, and I took some of my favorite songs out of here, some that my dad used to lead. He turned 90 this year, so there's some special songs, and what I did was I took a razor blade and I just cut down straight the songs out that I wanted to use. I've got my songs ready, but if you are doing a piece of paper in your pressed glass project, I want to show you a really neat trick to make the paper look aged, and what you'll need is some stamping ink that is kind of in the color of caramel, and then I just use a little sponge, and what you're going to do is you rub, you're going to rub it on your stamp ink, and you're going to rub the edges. Let me bring you in a little closer to show you how cool this is. Take your sponge, rub it across your ink pad, and gently brush the edges. If you want to get the corner a little heavier, you can lay it down, and you go all the way around doing the same thing. If you need more ink, go ahead and rub your sponge across again. Let me show you the difference. This is one that was just started a little bit, and this one's that's completed. Just adds a little touch. Now I'm ready to put my project together, but before you do, you want to make sure your glass is really clean, and if I can share one more tip, I like to use glass cleaner that sprays on like a foam. I tend to, when I use the Windex, the more liquid one, I tend to spray too much before I know it's gone in the cracks, and sometimes when I put my picture in, I don't see it, and it gets it wet. So that's just what I prefer, for what that's worth. Now one thing I want you to do, these little metal brackets that are in the frame, that when you put the back back on your frame, you know, you push it back in. I want you to take all those out, and the reason is, is because when you put that second piece of glass on, and you fold this back over, it's going to show. So I want you to just use some simple wire cutters, wire snips, and just pop them out. Really easy to do. Go ahead and get your glass clean, and then I'm ready to put my songs in, and I'm going to kind of cross them over, like so. I've already cleaned this glass, be really careful to not cut yourself. So how are you going to keep this in here? Just with a little bit of hot glue. Once your glue is dry, take a look at the front, and if any is showing, you can just take a razor blade, and kind of push it back in there, so it doesn't show. As a decorator, it seems like 40% of my job is hanging stuff, and I cannot stand to see a picture hanging crooked. I get a little OCD about that. So how I saw that is, this is called poster tack. I don't know if you've ever heard about it before, but I take a little piece of it. This stuff is amazing, and I'll put it on the back, and then I'll hang my picture, and it doesn't have to be straight, because I'll push my picture against the wall, and when it needs straightening, I push it until it's straight, which adheres this poster tack to the wall and the frame, and you never have to straighten your picture again. Even when you dust it, someone bumps it, it's pretty much going to stay in place. So that's just one of my little decorating secrets. So let me go hang my two pictures, and I'll show you how it turned out. I hope you enjoyed that tutorial. Please subscribe to my channel. I'm going to be doing a lot more fun tutorials. Have a wonderful day. Thank you. I did them with these. These are, these are called snips.