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Home » All Recipes & Inspiration » How to Create a Gallery Wall with Flowers and Butterflies

How to Create a Gallery Wall with Flowers and Butterflies

Published: Mar 10, 2023 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

16 clear frames with flowers and butterflies on a wall.

If you’re looking for an elegant gallery wall idea, try using clear frames with butterflies, flowers and photos! I found everything I needed on Amazon, except the photos, and I created the whole thing in one evening! All you need is a somewhat steady hand, a pair of tweezers and a little bit of creativity!

16 clear frames with flowers and butterflies on a wall.

A big empty wall in my living room had been bumming me out for a while, but I didn’t want to put one big picture or painting there. I wanted to do something more creative. I’ve seen frames like this before with flowers, so I decided to just fill the whole wall! Here’s how I did it!

First, I bought small frames, and larger frames that matched on Amazon, along with real butterflies and pressed flowers. I was really surprised I could find all of these things there! I already had a big bunch of dry lavender, so I also decided to include some of those as well.

2 butterflies and mixed, dried flowers on a table.

The flowers came with handy tweezers that made placing the flowers easy. The trick was to make frames simple. The more “designerly” I got, the more busy things felt.

I had added a butterfly with a bunch of flowers and it just felt a bit too “kindergarten project.” Just a few tiny flowers and 1 or 2 sprigs of greenery worked best for the flower frames.

Fingers using tweezers to place flowers on a clear frame.

The frames also came with tiny adhesive dots that make securing the flowers and butterflies easier too. Without them, the flowers and butterflies would fall down inside the frames.

FIngers holding 2 strips of adhesive dots.

The butterflies were a bit trickier because all but the wings were too thick for the frames to close. Without getting too macabre, I removed the wings first with tiny, sharp nail scissors, then used the thin cardboard the butterflies came with to make fake bodies.

The shape of a butterfly body drawn on cardboard beside tweezers on a table.

I drew the shape of the bodies, carefully cut them out, and used black packing tape to make them black.

Small scissors beside a small fake body of a butterfly made with cardboard and tape.

I then used a little adhesive dot to secure the black strip to the frame, and used a little bit more to secure the wings. It was helpful to use the tweezers with the wings because they’re so delicate.

Fingers using tweezers to place butterfly wings in a clear frame on a table.

The lavender was the trickiest. It’s pretty thick for the frame, so I had to carefully place them, close the frame – which would break some of the flowers off, open it up again, remove the broken flowers, and close it again. This process took about 3 closes and opens until they didn’t have any more flowers breaking off.

Fingers placing lavender on a clear frame on a table.
A clear frame with 5 sprigs of lavender on a wall.

I added a sweet photo of my grandparents on their wedding day that I love so much. I also added another frame with polaroids from my own wedding.

A vintage wedding photo in a clear frame on a wall.

When it came to hanging them, I laid them all out on the floor first to make sure they would all be the same length from top to bottom, spaced out fairly evenly, despite being different sizes.

A square frame with flowers and leaves on a wall.

I measured out the distances between the tips of the chains with a measuring tape, then used a marker that was easily erasable to make points to place tiny nails on the wall.

A clear frame with a butterfly on a wall.

Once that was done, I hammered a few nails and up they went! A few of the chains needed to be adjusted to keep things uniform. Luckily, the chains are easy to adjust on the frames!

A frame with flowers on a wall.
A frame with flowers and leaves on a wall.

The process was so fun, and the results were so pretty, I’m thinking of adding even more!

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