Another Special Card

or rather...

A Shadow Box.

From four residents,

Dad, Bill, Jenny & I,

that appreciate their Christmas Lights.

This is their tree from my front drive.

Here is the Shadow Box.

 Created from a sheet of 12x12 cardstock.

Scored & folded, with mitred corners,

which I covered with texture paste to resemble snow.

Globe - Tim Holtz die cut from blue painted paper

(PaperArtsy Summer Sky)

Wings were made with a mold & some two part resin.

Backdrop is white media paper, painted with

P/Artsy Summer Sky & stenciled with Tim Holtz

mini Poinsettia stencil.

Peace on Earth - die cuts - Tim Holtz

cut twice for depth, with Nuvo gloss applied.

Top view looking down so you can

get a feel for the depth.

I glued a piece of heavy weight chipboard

to the back & made a stand by tracing a photo frame

that i have. I glued it to the piece with UHU

& a 2.5in butt hinge because the weight of the

resin wings was pulling the piece backwards. 

 

 Another view of the hinge,

showing the neat finish.

For photo frames the stand is just short of

the bottom to give it a lean.

I wanted this to stand more upright,

so made the stand flush with the bottom.

 

In all I am very proud of this piece.

There were various videos on YouTube for

making shadow boxes.

I watched a few then kind of tweaked the

measurements to fit my purpose.