Cement Photo Stand

Memories, photos and more. Photos are an integral part of our lives. Family, friends, nature and more. In this project I tried to blend together the simple technique with everything handmade from scratch (including the moulds) and share with you a simple technique to make your photo stand look just as attractive as the photos. NOTE - For display purposes I've picked up some pictures of advertisements.

1. White Cement
2. Mixing bowl
3. Spatula
4. Drawer liner
5. 12 inches Bamboo dowel
6. A small knife
7. Paints (White, grey, green and yellow)
8. Paint brush
9. Sand paper
10. Water
11. Masking tape
12. Hand gloves

I bought this White Portland Cement. Then, added approximately 2 cups in a mixing bowl. Added water carefully until it mixed well without any lumps and was semi-liquid in consistency.

On the drawer liner I cut 2 X 5 inches strips. Total 4. Then making a roughly 2 inches diameter I folded in circles and sealed it with a masking tape.

Then, I cut 4 bamboo sticks 2.5 inches long.

Carefully filled up all the moulds with the cement and then inserted the bamboo stick in the centre. Let it dry overnight.

Having left the moulds overnight the cement had dried completely. Then, I removed the moulds carefully. As expected there was some cement on the edges. I sanded the stand cautiously and got it ready. Since I chose the liner with some carved designs on it, this got imprinted on the mould surface.

At the cement didn't look pure white, I decided to have white as the base paint. I painted all the 4 moulds and let it dry in the hot sun.

I then ran over some paints using a paint stick directly and randomly on the moulds with colors like green, grey and yellow. Let it dry completely in the hot sun.

Then, with the help of a small knife, I cut a small slit on the bamboo stick in the centre just like a screw slit for adding the photographs. Unfortunately I ended up hurting my fingers two times (:-(, this happens on such projects lol :-)) Note - I wasn't able to fully make the slit due to 2 small cuts on my fingers and so I let the pictures just sit on the bamboo stick. But that was not my goal lol :-)

As a final step I added some photos (dummy images) to the stand. I plan to expanding this project to make few more such decorative photo stands.

Thanks for your time!