DIY A PHOTO FRAME FROM A FAVORITE BOOK

The materials you need to prepare:
 A hardcover book
 The photo you’d like to frame
 A plastic page protector
 A utility or very sharp exacto knife
 A pen/pencil Masking tape
 A ruler


Step 1: Open the front cover and center the photo on it.Use your pencil to trace around the edges.

Step 2: Cut 1/8 of an inch inside the lines you just traced. Use your exacto knife and ruler to start scoring where you want to cut. Don’t try to cut all the way through on your first swipe – you’ll end up losing a finger. Slice five or six times down each spot before you even begin trying to pop the knife all the way through the book cover. It can be helpful to prop the rest of the book against the wall. Also, protect the surface beneath your book so you don’t end up leaving knife marks on it.

Step 3: Define your corners. You can turn the book over and slice a few times from the front to complete the cuts. Then just pop the cut portion out.

Step 4: Use your knife to clean up any stray threads or pieces of book cover that are still hanging on to your frame, but don’t worry about making it look perfect. A little fraying on the edges just adds to the charm of the book frame. 

Step 5: Open your front cover back up and lay the sheet protector down, lining up the bottom edge and one side of it just outside the bottom and side of the rectangle you traced originally. Mark the rest of the rectangle on the sheet protector and trim, again just outside the original lines.

Step 6: It time to have a photo-sized protector to slide your picture into.

Step 7: Place the picture/protector facing down onto the book cover, and use masking tape to secure it on both short sides.Flip it over and you’re done! An original and bookish way to display your favorite photos!

It gets a few more books off the shelf and out on display.Furthermore ,it is so easy, so fast, and completely free.It would be fun to make a whole wall display using books of all different sizes and colors as custom frames.