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Top bar showing a cut version of the closeup of the lower right corner.
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Shadow Box Card Tutorial | Princess & Unicorns

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Hi! Today I made a shadow box with unicorns and princesses, everything I love! The video tutorial goes through how to cut, score and put everything together, but I have also made an instruction sheet that you can see below and you can find it as a pdf HERE.

Showing the full shadow box card with the princess as focal image.

Making a shadow box means some measuring and scoring and if you find that hard (or boring), there is dies out there. One that also flattens to an A2 card size like the box I have done is the one from MFTStamps.

In the video below you can follow along on how I did my box out of less than one sheet of letter sized card stock. Also you can see how I decorated it using stamps from the Pretty Princess and Friendly Unicorn Stamp sets. You can find all the products used listed below, and there you also find all the copics used to color the stamps. Which you can see how I did in the second video.

For the shadow box I cut out 2 pieces measuring 5 7/8″ by 4 1/4″ for the back and front, and 4 pieces measuring 3/8″ by 4 3/4″, 2 for upper delimiters and 2 for bottom delimiters. The 5 7/8″ by 4 1/4″ should be scored on the long side at 4″ and at 5 1/2″, and the delimiters should be scored at 3/8″ on both ends. Before putting together the card, take one of the bigger pieces and cut a hole out of the 4″ part of it. Make sure that the hole has a minimum of 3/8″ to all edges so that the tabs aren’t seen from the other side. I used a die for this as I wanted to have cute scalloped edges for my window. Putting together the card, use a strong tape so that it stays together, I use sookwang tape. You can follow the instructions below and I have made a pdf that you can download HERE.

Instuctions for the shadowbox, sizings and scorelines.

After putting together the shadowbox it’s now time to decorate! I used stamps from the Pretty Princess and Friendly Unicorn stamp set. I colored them with copic markers and then cut them out (there is dies, but I prefer to fussy cut). Then blending Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio Distress Inks over the for Mini Cloud Edges stencil the backdrop and Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron Distress Inks over the Grassy Edges stencil to give some dimension and texture. For the hanging clouds and the back unicorn and chariot I used acetate to fasten them so that it’s harder to see how they are attached. To finish it off I ended up white heat embossing a sentiment on some Peach Bellini card stock.

Close up of the lower right corner of the shadow box depicting the sitting princess who hugs a sitting unicorn.
Close up of the unicorn in the back of the shadowbox card.
Closeup if the chariot on layer 2 of the shadowbox
Close up of the upper part of the shadow box, showing three crowns.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and I’ll see you back here soon! Happy Crafting!

Copic:

E21, E00, E50, R32, R30, YR23, YR21, YR20, R000, B0000, B000, Bo1, G02, Y13, YR12, V12

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Pizza Box with stamped pizza shaker card inside
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Pizza My Heart

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Hi! I was planning for my next video and I knew I wanted to use Lawn Fawn Stamps. So I headed over to Lawn Fawnatics to see what the latest challenge is and if it would fit my plans. The challenge is Fun With Food! but it ends tomorrow and there is no way I’m turning around a video in that time.

open mini pizza box with stamped pizza shaker inside

I knew I really wanted to join in with the challenge, and I have a super cute set called Pizza My Heart that I hardly used. So I decided to just make a blogpost about it.

Mini pizza box

I just had to make a pizza box, and after playing around with a couple of different cardstocks, I tried it with some red patterned paper from the Real Rainbow 6×6 set and it was perfect. However I did realise that I wanted my pizza to have a little dimension, so I turned it into a little shaker card. I coloured the pizzas with copics, well just one full one, the other other one I cut out the inners and backed it with some acetate to make the shaker window. I cut up some double-sided foamtape into strips, and removed the backing so it would be easier to create a circle with. For the shaky bits I stamped loads of those topping stamps with different coloured Lawn FawenThose little vegetables took forever to cut out, but it was totally worth it! Don’t you think?

stamped pizza made into a shaker

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Close up of Hersey Chocolate Bar Box with winter theme
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Snowed In | Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

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Hi everyone! I love making custom packaging to small gifts, and even something as simple as a Hersey Chocolate Bar can become a great present if you put a little time in creating the box and decorate it.

Hersey Chocolate Bar Box, decorated with stamps colored with copic markers.

The box itself is pretty straight forward to create, I made a blueprint with all the measurements for you if you want to recreate it. You can either just save the .png by right clicking on it or if you want a little higher quality you can download the the pdf HERE.

Blueprint of a box sized to fit a Hersey Chocolate Bar.

To decorate the box I decided to go with a small scene created with the Warm & Feathered Hugs stamp set. When creating it it was inches of snow outside and super cozy and all I wanted was to stay indoors and craft. I’ve used a blended layering technique to create some depth in the scene, I also stamped the trees in grey and black to give the trees some depth to. The lighter the tree the further away it feels. For the sentiment I stamped it in the blackest ink I have, and then added some clear embossing powder to make it stand out just a little bit extra.

Close up of sentiment on a Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

To finish it up I used one of the owls, coloring in a no-line coloring technique to be able to give the feathers that whispy feeling. I also kept the owl in neutral colors, adding a pop of red to make the eye being pulled there first.

Close up of showing the depth created by stamping trees in two different colors on the Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

Copic: E33, E25, E59, E49, E50. E51, E53, W0, W2, W4, R30, R27

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Peekaboo Pull-Tab Card | Save The Crafty Youtuber Video Hop 2018

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Hi Everyone! It’s time for me to join the Save The Crafty YouTuber Video Hop for 2018. This is a hop where over 90 Craft Youtubers come together for 5 days to share their love for crafting but also their viewers, come hop with us and maybe you can find some new youtube crafters to watch!

The hop is circular so where ever you start just hop on for that day, but you can find all the information over at the creator, Justine Hoveys blog. There are some great sponsors and that means that there is some great giveaways! Everything is happening on youtube, so to be in to win hop over to my youtube channel and after watching my video you will find the next crafter in the hop you find it as the first link in my description.

And now to the card! I had so much fun creating this card, figuring out how to make this work, when I got the idea I wasn’t sure that it would, but it did! As you can see on the photos this is a pull tab card, I call it a peekaboo card, as when you pull the tab, 5 little mini elves come peeking out behind the Christmas tree!

A couple of weeks ago, when entering the MFT Superstar completion I designed a peekaboo card where every critter had their own tab, but I wanted to see if I could make all 5 elves be controlled by one tab, to make the peekaboo surprise even more impactful. It was so much fun and you will most likely see more videos/cards like this, giving you a surprise.

Hope you liked my video and hope you come and join the hop, you find my video HERE. Other ways to get to the video on youtube is to hover over the video below and then click on the YouTube text and it should take you to the same video over on Youtube (btw you can do that on all embedded youtube videos, not only mine).

Copic:
E00, E11, R30
YR21, Y26, Y28
E44, E47
R35, R37
G24, G43, G46
T0, T2, 0

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