Zara Home Picture Frame : Knock Off Series

Today is Knock Off Knock Out day!  Our inspiration store is Zara Home.  The first of each month, five bloggers all share a knock off project from a pre-selected home decor store.  Be sure to check at the bottom of this post for the other amazing projects from Zara Home!

I must be losing my ‘cool’ because I had never even heard of Zara Home.  But, after checking it out for this month’s challenge, it’s a wonderful store with so many lovely items in it.  You should definitely take a few moments to check them out.

For this knock off, I went with their *Fruit and Flower frame.  It came in at a reasonable $26, but I still knew I could make it for less.

Check out my other amazing Inspired By series projects here!

Buttons and/or miniature fruits and flowers (I bought mine at various craft stores)

Simple frame

White Spray Paint

Hot.Glue

I set out all my little fruits and flowers and gave everything a few good coats of Spray Paint.

Then, I started placing the items around the frame using my hot.glue gun.  Certain items (mushrooms for example), I only had a few of, so I placed those on opposing sides and filled in as needed.

Zara Home’s frame doesn’t have an image in it, but I wanted to add one to mine.  I spray painted the canvas that came with my frame a dark golden color.  Then, I glued a rectangular chalkboard to it.  With some chalk, I drew on the ampersand and border.  Very simple but graphic.

After working on this project, it really opens your eyes to all the random items you could affix to a picture frame, spray paint all the same and get the same look.

Have you made a frame like this before?

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