DIY Vintage Style Frame Fillers

This is my first post and it's a really simple DIY but gives a very professional effect.

The only things you'll need to have are two frames, black paint. plain white paper, a teabag, a computer and a printer. (My frames are from Ikea)

1. Take a piece of paper and a small bowl with a teabag and hot water in it, then use a paintbrush to brush the tea water onto the paper.I found it easiest to do a few thin coats as this gives a very nice layered effect and won't give you a huge waiting time.

2. While this is drying you'll want to find a piece of music on the internet, I used Mozart's 'Duetto uno Violino e Viola'. I chose this as I wanted a fairly complicated looking piece of music, and I thought having both instrumental parts gave it a very nice effect.

I don't own copyright of this image

3. Shrink the image on your computer (I used Microsoft word) to the correct size to fit your frame. Then copy and paste it so you are printing two copies of the music score.

4. Take your tea stained paper, which hopefully is now dry and put it in the printer. I would suggest bending your paper to get rid of any stiffness so it goes through the printer easily. Remember if you only stained one side to place it in the printer so it'll have the music on the side you want.

5. Print out the word document onto the tea stained paper.

6. Find a bird outline on Google images (or a few similar style bird outlines) and place the image on the word document and then delete the music score images. Remember that you'll be cutting these out so probably don't choose the most intricate image.

I don't own copyright of this image I found it here: http://cocalores.blogspot.co.uk/

7. Place the tea stained paper with the music score on it back into the printer (remember that your printer might print on the opposite side to the one showing up when its in the paper tray)

8. Take your scissors and cut out the music score without the bird outlines on it and place it in your frame, the first one is done and you're nearly finished :)

9. Cut out around the bird outlines from the other music, this is where it helps if the outline is fairly simple.

10. Cut out a piece of paper to fit your frame, I chose white because it's simplest and matches my desk best but any colour could work.

11. Now Paint on some branches in black paint (I used watercolour). I would suggest practising painting a few before to decide what style you'd like. If you like even thinner lines you could try using a black fineliner.

12. Now all you need to do is glue the musical note birds onto the branches, frame it and hang up both projects and its all done :)

I really love how simple this is and how few things you need to buy, I hope you enjoyed this and might try it out :) <3