We welcome again one of our favorite Subscribers, Lee, who put together this amazing Halloween Shadowbox and asked to share her incredible project with everyone. Of course, we were thrilled to have her as a guest blogger and even more thrilled with providing you a fantastic Halloween project just in time for the big day.
Take a moment to check out what the amazing Lee put together for her Halloween celebration!
After downloading it I uploaded each of the 12 images and chose not to resize them. That is always an option but when you have multiple layers that fit together you have to be sure to resize them all together.
Once loaded into Design Studio I did have to change the colors on a few of the items as they didn’t reflect the image online. The top cover edge, bottom cover edge, lid and bottom all loaded as white but I wanted them to be black given that it was the outside of the shadowbox
I then reviewed the cuts and noticed that some of the cuts needed to be scores so pay attention to this – it is on the top cover edge and the bottom cover edge. The scores will enable you to fold over the edges that you will need when putting together the shadowbox.
So here we are all cut out and now it is time to start assembling the shadowbox. First piece I did was to put the very front together. Positioning the black hat over the orange hat and gluing. My favorite glue is Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue – I love that it has a fine tip nozzle so that you do not get too much glue out. You have to be sure to give the nozzle a good clean out after using though otherwise it will be useless the next time. I buy mine directly from Bearly Art but it is also available on Amazon.
Next, I put together the layers of the haunted house. There are four tabs on each of the images that need to be folded (I have noted this with an orange line). These four tabs are what connect each of the house layers together. I used my XL scrapper for this but any straight edge works. Once all six pieces are folded you can slot them together. It’s hard to describe this but the folded piece slots into the hole under the orange line above resulting in the below.
Now for the shadow box. The back has four pieces and so does the front. Each set consist of a circle and then the following three pieces. Here you are going fold along all the score lines using your scraper or another flat edge. You will notice that the bottom piece has an extra fold. This is to join to the other long piece. Glue the two long pieces to the shorter piece but do not join the two longer pieces (I made the mistake of doing that first time round and life is not as easy if you do).
You are then going to glue all the little tabs and stick them to the front circle resulting in this. Repeat this same exercise with the back. You will notice that when building the back circle the two longer pieces will end up overlapping. Not by much but this is why you do not glue it all upfront (as I did first time round). The back circle needs to be slightly smaller than the front circle as it has to slot inside of it.
Place your haunted house stack inside the back circle and then place the front circle on top making sure that the flat part of each is lined up and is at the bottom of the house as this is what is going to give the shadowbox the ability to stand on its own.
You are now ready to glue the hat on the front (apologies but I missed to take a photo before I started adding the glue for the hat).
Add the hat that you built at the beginning.
Your shadowbox is now complete but if you would like to go a step further you can add lights.
The great news is that you can do this after the fact, you do not have to dismantle anything. At the back you will notice a small hole. You can just feed lights through here. I opted for these ones off of Amazon. They fed in very easily and the end result was just as I had imagined – now to make the other two designs.
