Pottery Barn Inspired Burlap Frame Tutorial

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• A piece of corrugated cardboard
• Foam board
• Fat Quarter size of burlap
• Hot glue
• Twine

Lay your artwork you want to frame on the cardboard to get a general idea of how big to cut the hole.

Cut a hole using an Exacto knife (you can dig out with scissors too but it will probably not look the most even).  Cut the hold slightly smaller than your art.

Cut your burlap to be a few inches wider on all sides of your cardboard

Take the burlap and fold into a triangle

Cut off the point

Now you have a small opening you can cut into.  Lay your cardboard on top of your burlap

Start hot glueing the burlap to the back, folding all the sides down.

After the sides have been glued, cut your center hole like this:  at an angle to each corner (a mitered corner)

Fold those inner pieces in and glue in place.  This is what it should look like now.

Secure your art with glue or tape

I wrapped some twine around the bottom for a festive fall touch!

Using the same twine, I knotted each side to make a hanger

Cut a piece of foam board slightly smaller than your frame.

Glue onto the back

And you have a cute new fall wall hanging!

This is a completely awesome method of making your own fun mats for picture frames also.  You can use thinner cardboard (like from a cereal box) and that way you can cut the hole as small or large as you light to frame your art or picture, and use whatever fabric you like!  You can even skip a step and buy a precut mat from a craft store (the small ones are super cheap.)  I am planning on doing this matting method to a bunch of photos I want to hang on the wall of my kids’ room!