Happy Monday! I thought I'd switch things up a bit and start a new series called "Make It Mondays" where I show you my DIY projects.

This week, I'm showing you a super easy project that you can do with Ikea picture frames and some brass corners (and little teeny nails). I got the idea when I read through a DIY frame idea by Courtney at A Thoughtful Place. She used painters tape to create her corners and they turned out fabulous!

Here is her finished product (link to her blog post can be found here):

After seeing this, I thought about it more and wondered if they sold brass corners. Through some digging around via Google, I found some really cute brass corners! When they came in the mail though, they had no nails to go with them. I had to scour the internet once again and after visiting a few hardware stores that didn't sell that small of a nail, I found them online.

The frames I used were RIBBA but I just checked the IKEA website and they don't carry the size I have which I believe is an 11x14 and they also don't carry the color black...

 First, I glued the corners to the picture frames to keep them steady when I was going to add the nails in. I used a rock hammer to nail in the nails because a full sized hammer was way too big.


The nails were really delicate so if I hit it too hard, they bent.

 Then, I'd have to pull them out with pliers. I did this quite a few times. Each corner had 2 holes, 6 total. I only hammered in the first two on the front of the frame.


Pulling these little nails out was super tricky too. The frames are made of compacted wood and were somewhat tough to nail through but I did it!