Saturday, March 3, 2018

Library Shadowbox (pt. 1)

I recently gave this beautiful creation to a good friend and I thought I'd post the process of putting it together!  I spent so much time putting those tiny books together, it was a little ridiculous but I loved every minute of it!


To make this little book, which I refer to as the tiny Shakespeare tome, I took a magazine and a very sharp box cutter and cut a square from the bottom left of the magazine.  I then took some old paper I had that looked vaguely like leather and glued it on so the magazine print was covered.  I took a gold Wink of Stella pen and painted the edges of the pages so it looked like the pages had been edged in gold.




To make these little books I cut a 12x12 piece of paper into strips and then folded them using accordion style.  I trimmed them as needed to make the books taller, shorter, fatter or thinner as needed.  I then took pieces of chipboard and taped them together with washi tape.  Then I glued those to the strips of folded paper and viola!  Tiny books!!



I bought the tiny lamp, bottles, tiny skull (which I fondly nicknamed Yorick because of the tiny Shakespeare tome) and cuckoo clock at a craft store.  The tiny map pictured below I wound up not using because it just didn't fit really well.




Hummingbird cross stitch

I made this several years ago for my Grandmother.  It was a fairly basic kit and one of the few cross stitches I got professionally framed.  I just love stitching hummingbirds, they are so tiny, cute and brightly colored.  They just make the perfect subjects for cross stitching.

I also loved the flowers on this.  They aren't filled in all the way and I think the half cross-stitches just make it.