How to make an acrylic photo block in 10 minutes

In today'south post: Learn how to make a DIY acrylic photo block in but a few minutes. Fun + unique DIY gift for Mother's Day or Male parent's Day!

You guys know how much I Dearest photograph projects, right? It'due south simply so much fun to find a absurd new manner to display family photos, and photo projects make the all-time DIY gift ideas. Today'south post will show you lot how to make a transparent acrylic photo block – absurd! – in under ten minutes.

I've seen acrylic photo blocks on large photo product sites and e'er thought they looked and then cool. Instead of existence in a frame, your photo is printed onto a transparent block:

I've been wanting to figure out how to make my own acrylic photo block for years, but I've never been able to figure out where to get my hands on the acrylic block.

So I was super excited when I remembered that back in my scrapbooking days I used to use acrylic stamp blocks to hold clear stamps. Turns out they work beautifully as photograph blocks! Now, I wasn't able to find whatever great large stamp blocks, but I did find a four×6 version on Amazon. That means my finished photo cake is the size of a standard four×vi photo print – the perfect size for displaying on a desk. *DIY Male parent's Day gift idea!!*

How to make an acrylic photo block

Yous will need:

• 4×6 postage cake – this is the one I used from Amazon
• Clear sticker paper – this is the brand I used from Amazon
• printer

Lookout this video to see how to get together the acrylic photo block (written instructions follow):

This is dead simple! All you lot need to do is print your photo out at 4×half dozen inches onto a sheet of the clear sticker paper. I used the Silhouette brand shown in a higher place and an ink jet printer. I plant I got the best results when I chose a loftier ink quality. Be sure to print on the shiny side of the newspaper.

Adjacent, trim effectually the photo. Exist sure the stamping block is clean and free of dust.

Pull the backing newspaper off the photograph, then evenly employ the photo to the postage block. I similar to employ a credit card to smooth the photo down.

That's it!

A few last tips:

• Use a photograph that has bright or dark colors in it, and consider bumping up the saturation before you print your photo. Because information technology's going on a transparent block, low-cal colors tin exist very difficult to run across on the finished photo block.
• When deciding where to display your photo block, consider what will exist behind it. The block will look best in front of a white or calorie-free colored wall.

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