Hello Maja Design fans and welcome to the blog today 🙂

It’s Maja here to share the shadowbox I made, inspired by the chipboard quotation I bought recently:

For the background I used papers from the Vintage Autumn Basics and Vintage Frost Basics. I inked and distressed all the edges, added a few strokes of white gesso here and there and also glued torn strips of paper for an even more distressed look 🙂

Then I placed the chipboard quotation and the photos and then started to fill the shadowbox with embellies:

The small glass vial contains the letter I wrote to my boys – it’s not sealed so they can open it and read any time 🙂

I also decorated the outside of the box: the top is covered with flowers and gauze:

…and the back is decorated with stamps, stenciling, clock faces and numbers that mark the boys’ age at the time the photos were taken.

The shadowbox can be a nice home decor item, and it’s so fun to make! 🙂

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: Autumn Vintage Basics: No. XIV, No. XV, No. XVI. Vintage Frost Basics: Days of December, 10th of December, 2nd of December, 9th of December. Vintage Summer Basics: 1936.

Other: Chipboard shadowbox and elements: Scrapiniec; flowers: Flora Bella; metal elements: Retro Kraft, Tim Holtz; stencil: Crafter’s Workshop; glass vial: Tim Holtz; stamp and wax: Papermania.

see you soon!