How to Make a Wall Hanging For Your Jewelry

Is your jewelry box a sloppy tangled mess of earrings, necklaces, and bracelets? Are you tired of sorting, detangling, and rummaging for the right accessories for your outfits?

By creating a wall hanging out of an old picture frame you can have both a unique piece of art, and a organized way of keeping your jewelry from tangling or getting lost.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Old Wooden Frame
• Fabric
• Cardboard
• Ribbon
• Staple Gun
• Scissors
• Hot Glue

1. 
   Wall Hanging Supplies

   You'll need to purchase or find an old picture frame. Thrift shops and yard sales are great for finding these types of items inexpensively. You'll also need a piece of cardboard cut to fit the back of your frame, like the top of a pizza box. And you'll enough material to cover the cardboard, some ribbon, a staple gun, and a pair of scissors.

2. 
   Jewelry Wall Hanging

   Lay fabric wrong side up and place your cut piece of cardboard on top. Wrap material around cardboard. You want to have about three inches of material around the back edges of the cardboard.
   
   Using a hot glue gun, glue fabric to the back side of cardboard.
   
   **NOTE: you do NOT want to glue the fabric on the front side or you'll have bumps instead of a smooth surface. Just glue beneath the fabric around the backside of cardboard as shown in the photo.

3. 
   Jewelry Wall Hanging Ribbon

   Cut stripes of ribbon to go across the width of your fabric board and a inch or two around the back. Place 4 - 6 ribbons across board at different heights. Glue ribbon edges at the back of the board to hold in place.

4. 
   Jewelry Wall Hanging

   Place ribbon-fabric board right side down on top of your picture frame. Your frame should be facing down with the wrong side of the frame facing the right side of your fabric board. Using a staple gun, staple around edges to hold in place.

5. 
   Jewelry Wall Hanging

   Hang your new wall hanging in desired room. Add necklaces, bracelets, and hook top earrings around ribbon.
   
   Stand back and admire your new piece of jewelry artwork. Next time you're getting ready to choose you're jewelry it'll all be there hanging in front of you. No more tangles, sorting, or searching!

Tips & Warnings

• Paint frame to match decor of room where you'll be hanging it.
• Great for teens and tweens.
• Make great inexpensive gifts!
• Do not glue between fabric and cardboard on front side of fabric board or it will be lumpy.
• Do not glue ribbon across the front, you need to be able to slip jewelry around the ribbon. Glue edges at the back of cardboard.