My Shadow Box! I am so geeked about how it turned out. I hope you enjoy it just as much.
The box is an 8x8 shadowbox purchased from Michael's hobby store. All the products used in this project are from BoBunny's Blitzen line except for the Tim Holtz' Distress Stains - Snow Cap, Aged Mahogany, and Weathered Wood, Ranger Stickles - Christmas red, Flowersoft - Polar White, Ivory, Grey, and Blue, and Martha Stewart snow flake craft punches - arctic snowflake, alpine snowflake, glacial snowflake, nordic snowflake, and icelandic snowflake (large). The ribbon is dyed white raffia.
Punch as many flakes as you like from various pieces of cardstock or vellum to match the BoBunny 'Blitzen Dot' sheet.
I stuck some glue dots together and dyed the edges using the Weathered Wood Distress Stain from Tim Holtz. I went around the dot column quite a few times to achieve the desired dye level. I did this for all the dots - behind the deer and lamp post. Behind the globe did not need dying as they cannot be seen as easily.
As you can see the 'ribbon' started out as white raffia. Why buy colored raffia when you can by white and dye it whatever color you want? I cut a small section of the white raffia and dyed it with the Aged Mahogany Distress Stain from Tim Holtz. I dried it with a heat tool. Once it is completely dry I sort of unwrapped the raffia so it appeared more puffy. if you do this when the raffia is still damp it may tear.
I added my dot columns where I wanted them - after taking the sticky back protective covering off the chipboard lamp and deer. After the glue dot columns were added I took blue embossing powder and stuck it to the back of the chipboard. I didn't bother heating it at all. No embossing in was needed since the backs were already sticky. You may have to mash it down to the back to ensure it all sticks sufficiently.
Above is a photo of the chipboard 'snow-globe'. I added Christmas red stickles to the lamp and Snow Cap Distress Stain to the bottom of the snow-globe to reflect snow. There are also other diamond and icicle stickles throughout the snow globe as well. I also added Christmas red stickles to the lamp post chip board piece. The reindeer chipboard piece has snow cap distress stain on it as well.
This is what the back of the shadow box looked like before it was put in the box. If you use the 8x8 box from Michael's you will have to 'shave' a bit off the lamp because of the extra borders that come factory installed with the shadow box.
This picture is my best attempt at showing you how I did the 'hanging' flakes. At your local discount store or sporting goods store find the smallest pound test of fish line you can find. I believe this is 4# but I have since found a 2# which would be more perfect. After putting on my adhesive (here you see photo squares I was trying to get rid of) I cut a small slit and slide the fish line that I had tied to the flakes into the flakes and stuck it down to the adhesive.
You should stop by The Scrapbooking Studio in Bloomington IL in the Schnucks / Barnes and Noble plaza and see it in person as well as the other November projects my fellow design teammates have done. They are amazing - cards, trees, mini tags, albums, wall hangings, layouts, etc! We have a very talented and creative team of designers.
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