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Saturday, March 5, 2016

A Shadow Box for St. Patrick's Day

Shadow boxes filled with paper flowers are a 'hot' item in some of my Facebook Groups at the moment and since St. Patrick's Day is almost upon us, I decided to make one in gradient shades of green with an appropriate Irish sentiment in gold vinyl.



The box is sized at 8 x 8 inches and I removed the inner wooden shelf to allow for more room for my flowers, but as you can see, they are still a little squished!



The flowers come from the Art Philosophy cart and are sized at 5 inches.  I used 5 flowers in 5 shades of green from Paper Accents.   I find that lighter, less structured paper rolls into the flower shape much easier than say, Bazzil or American Crafts which is a heavier, sturdier card stock.   I inked the edges with Mowed Lawn and misted the flowers with marshmallow Glimmer Mist and then water before rolling them.



The sentiment is written in the Art Nouveau font - one of my favorites!  The shamrock comes from Seasonal Soirees and is called, don't ask me why, Four Leaf Clover.

My wrist certainly got a work out rolling 25 roses and I can tell that I am regaining some flexibility. Yeah!  I am linking my shadow box with the St. Patrick's Day challenge at FCCB.

And with the Decorate to Celebrate Anything Goes challenge here.  

And... with the DLArt Frogs And/Or Green challenge here.

And... with the Cut it Up St. Patty's Day challenge here!  

Love, love, love the variety of the DT's projects.   Off to pin a few for next year!   Thanks for visiting with me on a rainy PNW Saturday.  : )  Christine 


6 comments:

  1. beautiful shadow box. I love the wording and font too. Happy St. Patrick's Day

    maureen
    moknowsallcrafts.blogspot.com

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  2. Good to see you're getting flexible enough to roll flowers. I did 16 of them in a shadowbox and they went rather quickly. Your frame is obviously bigger than my 8 x 8. What I was disappointed with was the Gold vinyl. I put mine inside the shadowbox and even though it was flat, there were little marks all over the vinyl I couldn't get out. Is yours inside or outside? Beautiful job overall!

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  3. So pretty! I love the gradient of the greens with the darker on the bottom.

    Thanks for joining us at Cut it Up for our St. Patty's Day challenge!

    Evelyn
    http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

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  4. This is absolutely stunning! Sigh a pretty decoration for St. Patrick's Day! Thanks so much for joining us for the FCCB challenge this week! Hugs, DT Karla

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  5. This is soooo pretty!!! I love the green and gold!
    Thanks for playing at FCCB!

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  6. WOW! so beautiful!! Thank you for joining us over at Decorate to Celebrate!
    Hugs,
    Norma

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