We all have things we like to collect, from the fortunes found in fortune cookies to vintage keys and buttons -- there are a million little things that strike our fancy – and why not show them off by making a fun shadowbox? Combine your little collections with fun stamped elements and you’ve created a beautiful piece of art to display your collections in rather than hide them away.
Instructions
STEP 1:
Butterfly Inchie Image: Stamp Butterfly with black solvent ink on cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils. Let dry. Apply glitter glue and sprinkle coffee bean glitter over wings. Punch out butterfly inchie image using 1 inch square nesting punch. Punch patterned paper with 1 1/4 inch scalloped square. Layer inchie and scalloped square with 3D-Dots. Add to shadowbox with craft glue.
STEP 2:
Family: Trim patterned paper to fit within square of shadowbox. Create guideline to stamp on with pencil and ruler. Stamp letters to spell “Family” using black ink. Erase guideline. Ink edges of rectangle. Add to shadowbox with 3D-Dots.
STEP 3:
Dog Tag: Cover section of the shadowbox with patterned paper. Write “Good Dog” on cardstock with black Writer. Punch with Photo Labels punch. Add dog tag to shadowbox with 3D-Dots and add “good dog” label below.
STEP 4:
Tiny Jars: Add vintage paper and bingo number to shadowbox as shown in the example. Fill one jar with crystals. Fill the other jar with address cut from patterned paper. Glue to box with glossy accents.
STEP 5:
Key Tags: Punch 2 photo labels from cardstock. Ink edges of punched labels. Choose two vintage keys to stitch to labels; pierce holes to stitch them to the tag and stitch with embroidery floss. Glue labels to shadowbox.
STEP 6:
Scanlon Label: Create a stencil of the photo label by punching the label from scrap paper. Place open stencil over cardstock or paper you want to stamp on and adhere the stencil with removable adhesive, or hold in place with one finger. Stamp each letter inside stencil opening to spell word or name. Punch word out with the punch you created the stencil with. For easy punch placement, turn punch over and center the stamped word in the punch opening. Ink edges with red ink. Add to tintype in shadowbox with 3D-Dots.
STEP 7:
Embellish remainder of printer's tray as shown with embossed stamped images, photographs, patterned paper and other ephemera.