Back in February I had the awesome experience of attending a scrapbooking retreat at a lovely place called Cropping Daze in Chesaning, MI. My plan, however, was to create a 3D Shadow Box. Anyhow, I had never been to a retreat like this before, so I really did not know what to expect. My first response after the event . . . WOW!!
Many of the people there, in fact most, actually wored on their scrapbooks. But I had another project that I wanted to work on for my mom and dad as a mother’s/father’s day gift. It’s called a 3D Shadow Box, and I purchased the pattern online at 3Dcuts. These are designed by Marji Roy and she has YouTube videos on how to put them together. I enjoyed the crafting of this immensely, and my parents seemed to really appreciate the gift. You can’t see it here, but it also has tiny LED lights that they can turn on and off.
I definitely knew I wanted to make more of these, but not the same one. So I found Roy’s pattern for a 3D Nativity Shadow box. Now my family KNOWS how to do Christmas. Of the four families I am the absolute worst at decorating. I want to do it, but I never seem to find the time to do all I want to do. Each year I say I”m going to get an earlier start on it, but when you’re a college professor, November is a stressful month. At any rate, while Roy’s videos show how to put the shadow boxes together, I decided to do a video series showing the creation of one of these Nativity boxes from the beginning. Below is part 1.
This first video is not the complete process. I made the video offline (not live), so I decided to turn the filming off during a lot of the cutting. In hindsight, I made a mistake in doing this. Anyone interested in making one of these would probably like to see exactly how long it takes and the full process. This video is an hour long, but I would say the full process took at least an hour and a half.
I got all of the “blue” or color pieces cut in this first video. Video two will feature cutting out the innards of this star. There will be a short part 3 video finishing up the cutting. Then part 4 and 5 will be the actual putting together of the shadow box. Until next time . . .
