Photobooth photo wall art

OK who likes photobooth photos? Everybody? Thought so.

But they are kind of hard to display, you know, other than tacking them up on a cork board or refrigerator.

I wanted to include this one on my bedroom gallery wall, but they don’t make long and skinny frames for photo strips.

I decided to go homemade and scrounged up a long and skinny piece of scrap wood in my stash. Weirdly, the size was exactly 1.5 times the size of the photo strip and perfectly proportional, give or take a couple of sixteenths. Sometimes things are easy.

I scanned in my photo strip, enlarged it to the dimensions of my piece of wood and printed it out in two segments (since it was longer than could fit on one piece of paper). After the ink was dry, I sprayed the printed photo with a water-resistant clear sealer. (This is so the ink won’t run later when the photo gets decoupaged.)

I painted the piece of wood black, trimmed the photos and used Mod Podge to adhere the photo. A pretty straightforward decoupage job. No tricks!