Display your photos with a mouse trap frame
Display your photos with a mousetrap frame
I wanted to use my darling love sign in my Halloween gallery wall but it was way too cute! I turned it around to see if I would like to paint the back of the wood black and just use that. As I was looking at it I loved how the raw wood look so I just left it as is. However, if you wanted to paint the back of a farmhouse sign white or black be my guest. Let me show you how to display your photos with a mousetrap frame. If you want to see this on Studio 5 then click here and you can watch me make all the gallery wall projects from the show. 
What you need
- A wood farmhouse sign or a frame with a hard backing
- Black spray paint
- MouseTraps
- Hot glue
- White number stickers or white paint
- wire snips
If you are going to paint your sign do this first so that it can dry while you get the mousetraps ready. I really loved the raw wood so I chose to leave it. But white would be cute so that you could use it for Christmas cards or other holidays. heck, this would be cute just to have out year round. However, when I think of a mousetrap frame it seems most fitting for Halloween.
While the paint is drying on your frame Take off the metal rectangle thing with some wire snips I also pulled out the top piece so that it wasn’t in the way of my printable’s.
After the metal hardware is off the mousetrap it’s safe to use. I sprayed mine black but again if you are using this year round you might want to go with a pop of color, or gold, or just leave them to make it more creepy. My gallery wall was black and white this year so I opted to go with black.
Hot glue the mousetraps to the frame in even intervals. you could use E 6,000 but hot glue dries instantly and I’m always in a hurry to get things done. LOL If you want to use stickers to number the mousetraps then do it! I love the look of the numbers It makes it kinda modern and vintage at the same time.
Now all you have to do is add your printables to your mousetrap frame, I have some cute Printables HERE if you need ideas. I also think doing this on a long piece of wood or shiplap would be darling above a couch or bench. You could even do it vertically if you needed a tall skinny space to fill up your gallery wall. Thanks so much for peeking at the blog and know there might be some links that are affiliated, these links help to keep this blog up and running. And as always if you try this craft please tag me on Instagram at theGlitzyPear so that I can feature you on my stories. Happy Halloween my friends.
[…] I had this darling Halloween wreath on my door last year, but I wanted to a black and white look and this wreath had lots of orange in it. I took out all the orange replaced it with striped black and white ribbon and hung that over a photo on my Halloween gallery wall. I have the tutorial of how I hung this heavy wreath on this post, How to hang a heavy wreath over a photo frame. (coming soon) If you want to make the Mousetrap frame you see in the bottom right corner find the directions HERE How to make a mousetrap frame. […]