Attaching Chicken Wire To Frame

Christine shows how to use m d craft and hobby chicken wire to create a vintage photo frame.

Attaching chicken wire to frame.

If you ve ever. Apply as many staples as needed making sure to get a staple in each corner and two on each side at minimum. I ended up just making it look scratched. Please subscribe to the scrap time videos you tube channel.

Read more about a chicken wire frame. I painted the frame with cece caldwell s destin gulf green. Staple chicken wire to the frame flatten your sheet of chicken wire as best you can so there are no waves or bumps. I won t show you that.

Staple it to the back of the frame. Unroll the chicken wire a few inches and slip the horizontal wires along the first or second column of chicken wire cells into the tabs on a metal t post and pinch them closed with pliers or. This frame had a mirror in it. Use a hand stapler or upholstery stapler to secure the chicken wire to the back of the frame.

If using it as fencing attach the end of the chicken wire to the fence using 6 to 8 inch wire pieces that you have cut from the spool wrap them around the fence post through the predrilled holes in the post and around the chicken wire. Cut a chunk of chicken wire that is roughly the size of your frame. Attach the chicken wire to a good starting point in your frame or fence. I tried to age the mirror to make it look old.

Once it dries you can lightly distress it with sandpaper to give it an aged look.