..Raydns Shadow Box....

Last night ,I finished Raydns shadow box for his room, I had started it quite a while ago but never got around to completing it. They are a bit addicting I must say, I wanted to add more gadgets to it but I finally ran out of room. I must have rearranged the picture's about a hundred times, I originally wanted to have a single picture in the top middle and 2 pictures on the 2 bottom corners but I wanted to add some flowers in the middle and they didn't look right going in the down direction, so it ended up this way....up so all the ribbon and clumped flowers were around the same square. If that just made any sense at all. For my embellishments I used all silver (the keyhole, brads, key, clock, clip and paper clip)  instead of brass to match the handle.

 I used the Stella and Rose line from BoBunny, the oranges fit perfectly with the leaves and Raydns jacket in the pictures.  I used the Rangers Distress Stains for the wooden bird cage and bird. Amazing product, the applicator is a dabber which allows you to paint and blend it on. Very cool. I used the colours  antique linen, wild honey and of course walnut stain (walnut stain is my favourite distress ink too). The stains match the distress inks perfectly. Lately I have been addicted to alcohol inks and colour wash and now I think I found my newest addiction.

 I borrowed the bottom left section from Roxanne, she just had a shadow box featured on the cover of "Simply Homemade" for Scrapbook Trends Magazine. You should check it out, it is absolutely amazing....so, super talented. Roxanne used words that stood out on a alphabet piece of paper,and seeing this paper in the Stella Rose collection, I wanted to do the same. It makes the paper stand out a tad more, I used 8-18-9, Raydns birthday. Very cool idea Roxanne!! Hope you don't mind :)

 As you can see I used some gadgets and such from Tim Holtz, 7 Gypsy's and Maya Road. My favourite are the little bottles with the corks. Inside them I have music paper (left over from a class of Roxanne's, last February), the paper is VERY old, I think 100 years old or something like that. The paper would rip while I was rolling it. The only thing I wished I did diferently was used my border punch that had a bunch of little circles to match this paper instead of the one I used. (I bought it after I had this one punched and then had no more paper left. I love to use border punches in my layouts, I now finally own 3).

Designed and created by Rhonda Witzke

I know I have used this quote numerous times in past layouts. "Between the innocence of babyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature of a boy" but it is my favourite.....and the writing matched the background paper. The flowers I made using Timm Holts Tattered flowers die cut....looking on blogs this die cut is actually used LOTS and you can make so many variations using the flowers. I coloured the flowers with dabs of mushroom alcohol ink and sprayed them with espresso color wash. I was originally going to use butterscotch  color wash but I forget to pick it up at Urban...and that's why I went there, hehehe.  I then used the Stella Rose accessory brads to match.
It was a nice change to work on a shadow box and not a layout, if you have a chance you should try it....its super, super fun!!!