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Friday, November 28, 2014

Shadow Box French Country

Hello everyone :-D

I would like to share with you a shadow box I finished a while ago. I called it French Country as a beautiful Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country' I used for this one.

I made shadow box frame from one sheet of paper as shown in video tutorial by Lily. I used 8" x 8" sized paper and got a frame dimensioned 4" x 4" x 1/2".

I wanted this one to be different from all other shadow boxes I made, so I decided to add doors to a frame.

I added small magnets, small metal piece and small metal key, so the doors would not open. When opened, doors are small photo frames. Inside photo frames are photo mats. I made them from one sheet of Graphic 45 paper, rounded edges with paper puncher and distressed edges.

Door knob is an old button I had in my sewing stash. This button made me a problem. It was overweight and the box was falling down when doors were closed, even after I embellished the box.

To make balance, I used easel. I removed easel from an old photo frame, removed old paper, sheet it with Graphic 45 paper and glued it to shadow box frame.

I embellished shadow box with fussy cut images from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection, fussy cut printed digital images I found on Internet and butterflies die-cuts I bought on eBay (I don´t have die-cut machine). I added acetate sheet behind the bicycle to make it stable and on hanging clock to create glossy accent.

I made small marmalades using glass vials with corks, glue, glass colors, paper scraps, distressed inks, raffia and small labels I made using MS Word.