Spring 2019 Love Never Fails Shadow Box and Mini-Topiary’s!
I was watching YouTube for the first time on our new Roku
TV, a gift from my sister and brother in law. They were getting rid of her TV
after they got married and using his TV and her wi-fi wouldn’t reach their
bedroom so they knew we had an older TV borrowed from my parents and had no cable or internet so they helped by giving us the Roku TV so we could get internet
and TV which was beyond nice. So anyway while watching YouTube for the first
time on the TV I looked up Dollar Tree DIY and the first thing came up was a
really cool Shadow Box creation using picture frames and I fell in love with it
immediately. I think it was by Kelly Barlow Creations was the channel but
anyway she made a shadow box using picture frames and river rocks and scripture
stickers Love Never Fails 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 from Dollar Tree and then clearance
scrapbook paper for the backs and it looked so cute. I decided oh I must try
that and add that to my spring inspired crafts on my living room table.
Now hers was a tad darker in color as she was going for a
more farmhouse outdoors riverside look and I really wanted something more
bright. So I went to Dollar Tree and picked up three identical 8 X 10 frames
though looking back I wish I had painted the frames to make them brighter and
still can but I think Ill leave them as is. So after getting the three frames I
then saw some white rocks and I decided they would go perfect better than the
brown river rocks or black Zen rocks so I picked up a pack. I had already
decided on what would be in the foreground which would be a beautiful scrapbook
paper with solid light blue with white dots and these pretty cascading pink
flowers so the white rocks would accommodate it very well.
So after I got home I looked at how to make it one more time
and the link will be below so you can watch her do it. So basically you take the
first two frames and remove the metal prongs that keep the glass in but let the
third frame keep its prongs. You hot glue the inside corners of the first frame
and put the glass down, for the other shadow boxes I made I glued the sides and
corners because as you see the glass shifted after the frames were already
glued together and came out and my husband tried to glue it back and so excess glue
is seen in the corners so after that I put extra glue on the sides and corners
but not so much it seeps over the sides. After you glue the glass you then take
each frame and put tacky glue on the frames and place the next frame atop it
until all are atop each other with the frame with the glass on top. Then you can
wipe away excess glue that seeps out the sides, I used wet Q-Tips to remove
mine.
Once the frames are completely dry you can clean off the glass
with glass cleaner inside and out and once dry the fun but to me complicated part
of putting the sticker to the glass begins. The love never fails stickers were big and
so after figuring out how I wanted them placed I carefully laid them down and the
tricky part is making sure your finger prints aren’t all over the back of the
sticker and frame which fortunately with this one it didn’t turn out that way but
another I did it kind of did and it bubbled even though I tried to put it
smooth but I did manage to get the bubbles out almost completely on the
other one and it still looks good.
Once the stickers are down you flip the frames face down
and put in the rocks of choice and I did the white ones. I then took and using the
backs of the frames I laid it against the part of the scrapbook paper I wanted
and traced it and cut it out and glued it to the front of the backs of the
frames and put that down and closed the prongs and eyeballed it and decided to
add more rocks so I opened it back up and did that but also decided at that
point to add another 3D element. I added a few Cherry Blossom flowers and made
it looks as if falling atop the white rocks and after a few maneuvers they
stayed and looked good. So I added the back back on and because of the weight of rocks I took the second back and put it on behind the first to keep the rocks from falling out and that was it. I know my
explanation is way longer than the ladies original but I like to be real on my
efforts to make something and do step by step, lol!
So this shadow box can be done in countless ways and I am
going to be adding very shortly a few more Shadow Boxes I created, one for a friend
and another for my husbands grandma. So make it your own and create something unique
to you!
Here is the Kelly Barlow Creations Original I based mine off
of:
- Three 8x10 Frames- $1 each at Dollar Tree
- White Rocks- $1 a bag at Dollar Tree
- Love Never Fails Scripture Sticker- $1 at Dollar Tree
- Cherry Blossom Flowers- $1 for a Bouquet at Dollar Tree
- Floral Scrapbook Paper Backdrop-$5 for the large pack it came in at Wal-Mart or otherwise single sheets of any scrapbook paper will work and range in price from 25 Cents to a few dollars depending.
Mini-Topiary’s!
This is a double post only because these items go together or
at least for me and I wanted to share them together. So these are simple. I saw
many larger versions but when I was looking around Dollar Tree I stumbled upon a
pack of three small white buckets in the Wedding Sections as these are used to
hold favors normally and I bought them not at the time thinking I can make a
topiary but after I made my shadow box it came to me to make mini-topiary’s.
I added some wet foam to the bottom of the bucket and then
filled the rest with lime green mini-rocks that resemble the stones you put in
fish tanks. I then took the dowel rods and cut them down to the size I wanted
and then stuck it into the foam and rocks. I then took a small foam ball and
covered it in glue and rolled it in some moss and then took more glue and moss and
hand applied where it didn’t stick and once it was dry completely I stuck it
into the top of the dowel rod. To accent it and add similar elements as the
shadow box I took two Cherry Blossom flowers and placed them into the green
rocks. I could have stopped with one but I decided to do two and place one on
each side of the Love Never Fails Shadow Box!
These are super simple and easy to make no matter the size
or materials. I placed it originally on our living room table but its home now
is a pretty cool new craft/furniture item that will be going up soon, lol!
Oh and sorry again the backdrop isn’t the best we had an old
mattress going in the trash but had been waiting to place it out and for a few
crafts sessions it was in the foreground lol.
- Small White Bucket- $1 for a pack of three at Dollar Tree
- Wet Foam- $1 for a pack of two at Dollar Tree
- Lime Green Mini-Rocks- $1 for a bag at Dollar Tree
- Dowel Rods- $1 for a pack at Dollar Tree
- Foam Balls- $1 for a pack of different size foam balls at Dollar Tree
- Dark Moss- $1 for a pack at Dollar Tree
- Cherry Blossoms- $1 for a Bouquet at Dollar Tree
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