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How to Display Instagram Photos – DIY Photo Stands

Learn how to make photos stands to display photos.

How to make photo stands.

How to display Instagram photos

For all of you Instagram lovers out there, I know you have a gazillion beautiful photos sitting in your phone!

Guess what? It’s time to print them out and display them!

First thing you’ll need to do is print out your Instagram photos.

I printed them in 2.5″ on card-stock paper. I could have printed them on photo paper, but I opted for card-stock because it’s thicker.

Once printed, my sweet little ladies (Gabrielle & Emanuelle), cut them out for me. Yay for help! :) 

Now it’s time to start working on the Instagram photo stands!

DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!

Disclosure: I was provided product by BEHR to write this post but the thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

How to make photo stands

Supplies:

  • Piece of scrap wood. (My piece was ½″ high x 1 ¼″ wide and about 2′ long.)
  • Measuring tape or ruler
  • Pencil
  • Sanding block
  • Paint (I used BEHR MARQUEE Satin Enamel in Perpetual Purple MQ5-42.)
  • Paint brush

Tools:

  • Table saw
  • Jig saw or handsaw

Step 1: We started off by using the table saw to make a 5/16″ groove about 9/16″ from the edge of the piece of wood, just so that the groove wasn’t quite in the center of the piece.

Use a table saw
Making a groove with table saw.

Step 2: Next, we made a 1″ markings on the piece of wood, using a ruler and pencil.

Use a measuring tape or ruler to make cut markings on the piece of wood.

Step 3: We used a jig saw to cut the pieces. We made 15.

Using a jig saw to cut small pieces of woof.

Step 4: Next, time to use a sanding block to make each piece nice and smooth.

Sanding small pieces of wood with a sanding block.

Step 5: My favorite part, time to paint!

You’ll notice that I used Exterior paint. Why? Simply because that’s what I had on hand.

The color I used was BEHR MARQUEE Perpetual Purple (MQ5-42) in Satin Enamel. The color is PERFECT for my living room, where I’ll be displaying my Instagram photos.

BEHR MARQUEE Perpetual Purple (MQ5-42)
BEHR MARQUEE Perpetual Purple (MQ5-42)
Painting the Instagram Photo Stands in BEHR MARQUEE Perpetual Purple (MQ5-42).
Painting the Instagram Photo Stands in BEHR MARQUEE Perpetual Purple (MQ5-42).

Step 6: Once the photo stands were dry, I inserted my Instagram photos, and placed them in my mailbox cubbies.

DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!

DIY Photo Stands to display photos

DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
Displaying Instagram photos with DIY Instagram photo stands.
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you!
DIY Instagram Photo Stands. Do you have a bunch of beautiful Instagram photos in your phone that you would like to display in your home? Awesome! Then this Instagram Photo Stand tutorial is for you! This DIY Crafts makes a PERFECT gift too! thediydreamer.com

So, what do you think?

Aren’t they great!

Such a fun way to finally display those beautiful photos sitting in our phones!

Now go on, print your photos, and display them!

You can also display your Instagram photos in a gallery wall too!

P.S. I have also a fun how to make cheap wood frames, if ever you’d rather display your photos in a bigger format.

Have yourself a fabulous day!

Disclosure: A big THANK YOU to BEHR for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions in this post are 100% my own.

Allyson

Friday 20th of March 2020

Great idea and I like how you used them to display your photos. Pinned. Visiting from BFF Open House.

Jenny Kavangh

Monday 16th of May 2016

Really cute! Great idea. :) xo, Jenny

Sherry

Tuesday 3rd of November 2015

What a cute idea!! Thanks for sharing at Home Sweet Home!

Sydney @ Tastefully Frugal

Sunday 1st of November 2015

This is such a fun idea and your tutorial is great!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at the Bewitchin' Block Party; I'll be featuring you this week! I hope you can join us again today!!

Claire

Wednesday 28th of October 2015

Love what you have done here ! I'm always looking for new ways to display photos, this is great as it's easy to update. I like the idea of being able to rotate my photos. We probably take more photos than we have ever done but look at less photos as we don't print them off like we used to. Cheers !

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