Thrifted Patriotic Window Frame

Show your American pride with this DIY Patriotic Window made with a thrifted frame and 4 Americana Grunge rice paper designs from Digital Deco Designs. The perfect way to decorate for Memorial Day and 4th of July in your home. I love USA!

DIY Patriotic Window made with a thrifted frame and Americana Grunge rice paper designs to decorate for memorial day and 4th of July in your home decor.

OK, OK, OK……this Thrift Flip is literally EPIC! It takes not one, not two, not three, but FOUR gorgeous prints from Digital Deco Designs and puts them together in one amazing Patriotic Window Frame DIY!

The frame, of course, was thrifted. And it was HUGE. The perfect size to fit all 4 of these rice paper prints.

If you are not familiar with Digital Deco Designs you are MISSING out with a capital M! She makes gorgeous rice paper printables that you can either download and print at home, or you can have them printed and shipped to you.

I have a printer, so I download and print them onto rice paper at home, but either way, once you start Mod Podging rice paper, you can’t stop!

I was so happy I could use 4 designs for this one because that meant that I didn’t have to decide on just one. The four I chose are all from her new “Americana Grunge” collection:

1.) AMERICAN GRUNGE BALD EAGLE 3 (#F069)

2.) AMERICAN GRUNGE FLOWER POT (#F061)

3.) AMERICAN GRUNGE TRACTOR (#F066)

4.) AMERICAN GRUNGE RED TRUCK (#F065)

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Supplies Needed to Make a Patriotic Window Frame

Large thrifted frame (mine was about 17″ x 14″)
AMERICAN GRUNGE RED TRUCK print
AMERICAN GRUNGE TRACTOR print
AMERICAN GRUNGE FLOWER POT print
AMERICAN GRUNGE BALD EAGLE 3 print
Corner embellishments (from Hobby Lobby)
3 paint sticks (12″)
White paint
Kilz dark wax
Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff
Kraft Paper
Antique wax
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Patriotic Window with a Thrifted Frame

I made this Patriotic Window Frame with Digital Deco Designs on video, so you can WATCH it or click on the picture right below.

Watch the full video here

I also have a short 1 min sped up video overview of the process and you can see that one HERE.

This was a live tutorial I did over on Facebook, so for the step by step instructions I would recommend watching the replay since I don’t have in progress pictures, but I will do my best to explain.

I printed my designs at 60% size, so that all 4 would fit in my frame. Depending on the size of your frame, you will most likely need to print your designs smaller than 100%.

First, I stained the entire frame with my Antique Wax, as well as the paint sticks. Then I added some candle wax to them so that I could do the “chippy method”. The wax helps the paint to chip off after the next step.

Over the top of the wax, I painted the frame and paint sticks white. Once it was all dry, I used a paint scraper and sanding sponge to distress the entire frame and paint sticks, making it look old and grungy (the wax makes this part easier!).

To add to the grunginess, I used my Kilz Dark Wax and grunged up the edges and corners of the frame even more, and went along the edges of the paint sticks as well. I wanted the frame to go along with the “grungy” vibe of the rice paper.

The paint stick was not long enough to go down the center vertically, so I braced two paint sticks together using a jumbo craft stick on the back. This made one long paint stick going down, and one shorter one across. I glued them both to the frame from behind, to make it look like a window.

Next, I glued in the 4 prints in each of the “window panes”.

To jazz it up, I found these corner embellishments from Hobby Lobby. I added a bit of Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff and glued one to each corner of the window frame.

This thrifted frame didn’t come with glass or a backing, so I covered the back with kraft paper to give it a more finished look.

OH EM GEE this is by far one of my favorite patriotic crafts to date!

I hope you love this one as much as I do, and I hope even more that it inspires you to get crafty with the red, white, and blue.

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