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I started with a simple shadow box. I already slide the glass out so I wouldn’t have the glare. I took some regular acrylic paint. I just sort of white washed around the edge with a foam brush. After that was dry I took some book print.

Some simple book print. And did my edges and added some decorative papers. A lot of the papers I used were from the craft y secrets pastel pad., but I did use a few others. Just to give it a little variety and color. Then on the side, the image that I used. The little girl image I used was from this book.

The little dots image and journal notes, from crafty secrets. There are a number of different images that you can use and they also have a little journal spot down at the bottom. So I used the journal spot behind my image before I cut it out. Then I did a little bit of layering so I would have a little bit of lift and dimension by using pieces of chip board.

Then I mounted my papers on those and then in between I added some little foam dots then that gave me the dimension between a couple of the layers. I just used decorative papers, scissors and lace to decorative with to do my embellishing to do my buttons. Just some stuff you like. At the bottom as you can see I did a ribbon effect.

You can decorate it however you want. It’s an easy project. I found my shadow boxes at the dollar store but you can find them at a number of places. I added a little tull at the top. You can add ribbon or lace.

A shadowbox. The materials you wanna put inside. Scissors. Glue, and all your special collective items.

Step 1. Take your shadow box and assess whether or not you want need to, sometimes you want to keep it bear. Maybe you want a bright color or something new that matches what is inside.

Step 2. Take our your glue gun. It leaves a nice clease adhvesize. Just layer where you are gonna start putting your stuff down. I’m doing a camping scene here. I’m gonna put little wood chips here. These beautiful little pine cones. Along the way when we went down to the river we picked some stones.

Step 3. They are nice and soft so I thought they would be nice in the box. I don’t know if you are familiar but we have these brilliant dolls, and my husband and I like dolls so in the spirit of moomah who also likes bear which would be sweet for this box.

I’m gonna put him right in here. My favorite part of camping is of course the fireplace and telling stories. With a simple piece of paper and a sharper we can put some flames on. I’ll take my glue gun and attach them to this little wooden ship.

I went through some national geographics. They are good for material. What I did was measure the back piece of my box and cut the paper to size.

Step 4 is taking the back piece of your shadow box and putting the picture you took from national geographic and printing it and cutting it to size to fit it on the back of the box. A glue stick is preferred because a hot glue gun with melt the picture.

Then I take my picture and I apply it to the back of my box. Let me show you. There are a few prongs that will keep it in place. Make sure you get it on all sides. Connect, push in the tabs tightly.