For those of you who love vintage looks and feels, this will be the perfect shadowbox for you. She goes into good detail explaining how she does it.
Hi, I thought today would be a good day to show some of you who have had questions on how to make this shadow box or purchased a kit.
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.
It doesn’t take much. A little inking around the edges. I love to use chestnut roam.
One of the cool things about this shadow box is that she leaves a lot of the design to you, but gives you the right direction you need to fill in the blanks.

