DIY Walnut Photo Holders

For displaying small artwork or photos, there is zero sweeter than these DIY walnut photo holders. They are perfect for the fall season and but equally sweet as tin be. As a bonus, they're incredibly easy to create.

Materials Needed:

Walnuts in shells
Wire
Drill, pliers, can snips

DIY Walnut Photo Holder- you need to select the walnuts

To begin, you need to select the walnuts with the flattest lesser sides that you tin.

Make sure the walnuts you choose can stand on their own

Brand sure the walnuts you lot choose can stand on their own, and pretty securely, as well. When you add in the extra weight and balance-displacing factors of the wire and photo, the walnuts' stability is lessened.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-choose your drill bit

Once you've chosen the best (flattest) walnuts, it's time to choose your drill fleck. Match it precisely to your wire thickness.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder- start drilling process

Carefully drill a hole into your walnut, all the way through the flesh but Not through the other side of your walnut.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder - Keep the drilled hole precise

Keep the drilled hole precise so that it fits your wire snugly.

(Tip: Despite the photos you lot run into previously, it is not best to drill your hole into the walnut'due south crack because it tends to split. Drill but off to the side of the crack for consistently best results.)

Trim 4"-vi" of wire with your tin snips. The thicker (e.g., heavier) your wire, the less length yous volition want considering your walnut won't be strong enough to hold too much weight.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-Use pliers or needlenose pliers

Apply pliers or needlenose pliers to bend one end of your wire into a circle.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-ircle should wrap around itself enough

Your circle should wrap effectually itself enough that a photo can fit in there deeply.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-Use pliers to clamp the wire arcs together

Use pliers to clamp the wire arcs together so they are just broad enough for a photograph to stay betwixt them. This photo shows the wires touching, but they will afterward exist separated slightly to accommodate the artwork.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-Screw your wire carefully into the drilled hole

Spiral your wire carefully into the drilled hole in the walnut. I say "spiral" it in there because you lot'll want the hole to be tight plenty that a twisting motility is required to go the wire to stay. If your wire is slightly loose, consider adding in super gum and letting it dry to secure the wire amend.

DIY Walnut Photo Holder-Stand your walnut upright

Stand your walnut upright. If information technology tips over, bend or movement the wire effectually until you lot accomplish a better residuum.

Your walnut needs to exist able to stand securely on its ain with the wire in information technology earlier adding the photo or artwork. If it just doesn't, consider removing the wire and snipping off an inch or two. Or glue a coin to the bottom of your walnut to help flatten it out. Those methods were not used for this tutorial, so I'm not sure how well they would piece of work, but they are ideas.

Remember how that one walnut split down the middle

Think how that one walnut split down the middle? You lot can use the halves for photo holders also, if you'd like. Drill a hole in the same fashion, and insert the wire.