Broncos Shadowbox

So the story behind this shadowbox starts with a family friend who has season tickets to the Broncos games.  Well for the last two years now my dad and I have gone to at least one game with him.  It is so freaking awesome and fun!  I partially blame this family friend and his season tickets for my (new) obsession with football because there is nothing like going to a game at the stadium.  It is just mind-blowing, with all the people and the announcer and before the game they have parachuters that drop down from above the stadium and there's just nothing like it.  I plan on having season tickets myself one day!

Anyway, so last year we went to a game, we chose this game before the season started because we thought seeing the Broncos play against the 49ers would be fun.  Little did we know!  So, the whole thing as we got closer to this game was that Manning was about to break the NFL all-time record for Touchdown passes and the thought was that it would either be in this game or the next that he would break that record.  We got lucky and it was this game; a little way into the second quarter he did it, he threw his 509th TD pass!!  And we were there!  Oh yeah, and they won!

So, for Christmas I was at a loss for what to do for my dad until one night I was struck with inspiration: do something for him with the pictures from the game!!  And thus the shadowbox was born!

All the pictures I used are the ones I took at the game, the selfie is from our family friend (hello!) and I included the game ticket and the light rail ticket.  I'm really proud of this because I picked out the papers myself along with the pictures and essentially designed the layout myself (a first for me).  The paper and most of the embellishments are from Graphic 45's Good Ol' Sport collection.  The Broncos horse-head I actually cut out from the program we got at the game and used my mom's Xyron thing to make it into a sticker (how cool is that!).  The "I saw Peyton throw 509" little text box I found online and printed out.

He loved it and it hangs in his office now.  :)

I was lucky I got this picture; this is the setup right before Peyton threw 509.

And 509!  I don't think I've ever heard such an explosion of sound!  It was so cool!

P.S. Go Broncos!  :)

Crush book (pages 3 and 4)

This is a two-page spread with several flaps that open and close.  This was fun because I got to learn a bit about my home state (Colorado) but I had such limited space that I had to be choosy with the facts to put on the page.  So I put facts about Mile High Stadium, the Capitol building, Elitches, beer, the state nickname (The Centennial State) and Denver's Demon Horse.  I picked these ones for various reasons, either they meant something to me personally or I thought they were really interesting facts or I thought they were amusing, so they are kind of random.


This is the entire layout seen as you open the book.

This is the same thing but with all the little flaps open.

Closeup.

Closeup with flap open.  This page talks about Mile High Stadium, the Capitol Building and Elitches.

Second page closeup.

Same with flaps open.  This page talks about beer (yaa beer!), Colorado's nickname and Denver's Demon Horse (you know the big scary sculpture outside DIA [red eyes, dear God, WHY?!])