Merry Christmas!
This year, I made several shadow box cards or, more properly named, diorama cards. These are little 3D scenes. The cards fold flat for mailing but pop into a box shape to display its dimension. These ones were A6 sized (6.25 x 4.5 inches when flat).
These are the first three I made.
I used a bunch of new purchases on these cards: The snow globe (by Creative Expressions), the village (by Your Next Stamp) and the snowman (by Yvonne Creations with birch trees from Lawn Fawn).
The penguin was the easiest (penguin stamp by Close to My Heart). I did stamp the snowflakes in the background. If I used patterned paper, I could have made the card faster.
I loved the snowman but it took the longest by far. It cut and embossed the bits but it was one solid colour. I coloured all the bits with my Copic markers. It was not easy to achieve definition in the snowman's body. It was also not easy to leave the thin lines in the snowman's hat. If I do that one again, I might try paper piecing the scarf and hat. The village was the most colourful, so I chose to make many more of that one.
On the next version of the village, I used Snowtex on the houses and trees. Snowtex is an opaque, bright white, textured medium. It dries hard and reminds me of popcorn ceiling plaster.
To show you the 3D nature of the card, here's the top view where you can see the 4 layers achieved with 2 benches between the front and back of the box.
You can see some of the dimension in this picture:
The last version I made for this year included my new Creative Expressions woodland creatures stamp and dies set, plus my Lawn Fawn birch trees. I made this one for my mother-in-law who likes deer. It took too long to colour the deer and trees so I only made a couple of those.
I really enjoyed making these cards this year. I will have to make some more in different themes.
I wish everyone a healthy, happy Christmas time and a prosperous new year!
This year, I made several shadow box cards or, more properly named, diorama cards. These are little 3D scenes. The cards fold flat for mailing but pop into a box shape to display its dimension. These ones were A6 sized (6.25 x 4.5 inches when flat).
These are the first three I made.
I used a bunch of new purchases on these cards: The snow globe (by Creative Expressions), the village (by Your Next Stamp) and the snowman (by Yvonne Creations with birch trees from Lawn Fawn).
The penguin was the easiest (penguin stamp by Close to My Heart). I did stamp the snowflakes in the background. If I used patterned paper, I could have made the card faster.
On the next version of the village, I used Snowtex on the houses and trees. Snowtex is an opaque, bright white, textured medium. It dries hard and reminds me of popcorn ceiling plaster.
To show you the 3D nature of the card, here's the top view where you can see the 4 layers achieved with 2 benches between the front and back of the box.
You can see some of the dimension in this picture:
The last version I made for this year included my new Creative Expressions woodland creatures stamp and dies set, plus my Lawn Fawn birch trees. I made this one for my mother-in-law who likes deer. It took too long to colour the deer and trees so I only made a couple of those.
I really enjoyed making these cards this year. I will have to make some more in different themes.
I wish everyone a healthy, happy Christmas time and a prosperous new year!
I love your version of the Shadowbox cards. Using a snowglobe as the cutout is a wonderful idea!
ReplyDeleteI made a LOT of Christmas cards this year but haven't posted all yet. I still have over a dozen yet to make but THOSE are Winter Wonderland and Dachshund through the Snow cards since they are late! :)
I also have the Lawn Fawn Birch trees but haven't used them OR the Christmas Dreams. Didn't have time to color with the Copic markers but mainly because sometimes the markers upset my allergies.
I DID figure out the fast way to cut all the Christmas Dreams shapes at the same time without retaping the dies each time. I'll get some done for THIS Christmas!