November 12 - Christmas Shadow Box by Lucy Edson

[Lucy Edson]

Welcome to the first day of the crop!

I am so excited to share my project with you! I wanted to create a magical outdoor Christmas scene for my daughter. She has already asked if she can hang it in her room.


I hope you enjoy my project and tips for creating your own shadowbox!

Webster’s Pages Supplies:

Winter’s Wings papers:
* Season of White
* Swan’s Lake
* My Promise
* Magical Tree

Home for the Holidays papers:
* Santa’s Village

Variety of Webster’s Pages Trims

Other Supplies:

Wooden shadow box – the type that looks like a frame with a deep interior (I removed the glass)
Christmas décor items – 2” snowflakes, gift pick
Thick craft foam
Jewels
White batting scraps or felt
Small wooden dowel or skewer
Cardboard to build depth
Acrylic paint – light blue and darker blue
Gel medium
Strong liquid glue (my favorite is FabriTac)

Step 1: Remove the glass from your photo frame shadow box and paint a thin coat of 2 colors of acrylic paint onto all of the sides. Wipe most of the paint away as you go, for a stain effect – you can sand back areas to the bare wood to soften the colors, if needed. Set aside to dry. I used 2 shades of blue paint.

Step 2: Cut the butterfly Christmas Tree from the Winter’s Wings paper and clip into the branches with a criss-cross snips of the scissors to mimic the pine needles. Coat front and back side of tree with glitter glaze and or gel medium to strengthen the tree and add some shine. After the gel medium is dry – glue a small dowel along the trunk (on the back side) for stability.

Step 3: Cut out the additional flowers and leaves from the other papers to use for embellishing your project. You may choose to cut out your photo to use as a dimensional part of your shadow box, as I did.

Step 4: Tear strips of batting or felt to mimic snow and glue into the bottom edge of the shadowbox. Let the edges hang over. Tear one piece in a circular shape and cut a cardboard circle to mount it on. This will be the base for the tree and gifts. Glue the batting to the cardboard circle and then glue to the bottom of the frame portion of the shadowbox. I used thumbtacks to hold it in place.

Step 5: Creating the gifts -Cut 2 layers of foam into the size and shape you would like your gifts to be, glue together and wrap with patterned paper. Finish with various trims
and or ribbons.

Step 6: When you have assembled all of these elements you are ready to put everything together.
I usually audition all of the elements before gluing to check for placement and appearance. Layer small pieces of cardboard at different thicknesses under the embellishments to build depth. When you are satisfied with the arrangement you may glue into place. I used a piece of a popsicle stick to brace the hanging snowflake.

Finishing Touches: Trim the tree with jewels and fringe – Add jewels to the snowflakes. Hang and enjoy!

For all of the details about the crop visit here: Crop Info

A Note about the prizes:
We will giving away a great prize (your choice of 2009 paper line and a surprise embellishment) to one of you that shares your take on this project. Here are the rules to qualify:
1. Your project must use Webster's Pages papers from our 2009 releases (we understand you might not have been able to find the exact papers and embellishments used in the project).
2) Your project should be inspired by the featured project. We look forward to seeing your interpretation so it does not have to be exact - let your creativity shine but we want to be able o to tell it was inspired by this project.
3) Add your completed project to the gallery and link to it from the post within 72 hours of the time this project was posted. The prize drawing will be closed after that time, though we still welcome seeing your projects.
4) The prize will be awarded randomly from everyone who qualifies.

I hope you enjoy making your own Winter Shadowbox…I’ll be checking this thread though out the next few days to see if there are any questions or if anyone needs assistance please post here. I’ll be chatting with you all tonight at 9PM EST about the project. Can’t wait to see your interpretation!!

Thanks - Lucy

[Anabelle O'Malley]

This is absolutely AMAZING, Lucy!!! Can't wait to try one. :)

[Audrey Pettit]

Gorgeous project, Lucy!! I so love the tree on the outside edge with the tinsel and gems.

[Karola Witczak]

Fantastic project Lucy, great ideas and amazing 3d work! Gorgeous!

[Toni Crane]

that is just beautiful!!!! can't wait to try this tomorrow....

[piradee talvanna]

thanks so much lucy for sharing this...
it's absolutely gorgeous... and can't wait to try this out, especially with all the tips :)

[Floliescrap]

so beautiful ! congratulation !

[emeline]

Fab Frame Lucy !! Going back to read your tips ! ;)

[Jana_NJ]

Very pretty

[Wendy Kwok]

Lucy, this is soooo gorgeous!

[Iris Uy]

Lucy this is soooo beautiful! Love the 3d details!

[Megan A]

beautiful!

[Brandin O'Neill]

I am so Inspired Lucy!!!! This makes me want to start baking for Christmas...it just makes me so happy! That was such a great idea to decorate the tree! LOVE it!