I seem to lag a bit when Christmas is over. All that work and excitement, though fun, is tiring. Ever more so as I get older. During January and February I tend to take things easy. I am looking forward to having Older Son and his wife stay over for a few days later this month. They are going to help put away Christmas decorations. It’s always more fun to do that work when someone else is helping.
Today I made a couple of Christmas shadow boxes. The first one was one of my favorite kinds to work on. A snow scene.
I put the box together yesterday. Along with a few other boxes. You will find the tutorial here: shadow boxes from Christmas cards, if you’re interested in making a shadow box. I knew right away that this one had to have a cream colored bottle brush tree. I took the wooden stand off to fit the tree into the box. I often do that, anyway. I think the trees fit better into the snowy scenes without that round of wood.
I have two little plastic drawer sets where I keep some of my floral embellishments. Six drawers in all: greenery, greenery with snow, greenery with ice, greenery with berries, gold, and silver. After finding the right bottle brush tree, I pulled out my drawer of greenery with snow. From there, it’s just trying different things until I find something I like.
I love this white roping. I have three cards of it. I hope I’ll be able to find more when I’ve used all I have.
People are sometimes surprised when they see my shadow boxes in person. They often tell me they thought the boxes were larger than they actually are. So I took this picture with an acrylic ruler behind it to give you an idea of how large the box is.
And so you can see the side…
I also worked on this box. It isn’t quite finished yet.
While I wrote this post, I watched “I’ll Have What Phil’s Having” on Netflix. Season 1, Episode 1. Tokyo. Wow! Food so beautiful, it makes me want to cry. I wish I could go to Japan. I love seeing how amazingly creative people can be. Creative in so many ways I would never have dreamed of. Get out there and create something!
Similar Christmas card shadow boxes I have made are featured in my Etsy shop. ChristmasNotebook
~~Rhonda