Another Repurposed Shadow Box

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Yesterday I showed you how I re-purposed inexpensive shadow boxes to suit my creative needs.  Today I have done another one.  This time I used decorative paper and used some embossing on it. I went with birds again today.  Since the passing of my grandson, birds and cardinals in particular have become very special to me.  You see the day before or the day of, I can't remember exactly because those days just seem to blur together, I had received a card in the mail from the Bradford Exchange, with a cardinal snow-globe. I believe this was sent from God to me to help ease me through this difficult time. Click here to see a short video of this wonderful snow-globe.


Today's Project

Shadow Box Mixed Media

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A few weeks ago our local Family Dollar was having a going out of business sale.  I found some small shadow boxes that were originally 3.00 per box, gave them a once over and decided I could make them into so much more!

I ended up buying 3 for just over 2.00 per box.  I wanted more but why be stingy right! So I left some for another lucky customer.

This is what I made and check out this video for a quick before and after and the process I used.


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I hope y’all get my title reference. I normally do not like stupid humor, I have more of a dad joke sense of humor, but for some reason I fi...