DIY Christmas Shadowbox

I am so excited on how cute this DIY Christmas Shadowbox turned out and it was another super easy project.

Supplies needed:

• Shadowbox (found at Michaels)
• Decorative paper or card stock (I used a sheet from the DCWV Christmas Creations booklet)
• Small foil wrapped gifts (found at Michaels)
• Silhouette Premium Indoor/Outdoor White Vinyl and Silhouette Premium Transfer Paper With Grid
• Silhouette Machine (Portrait or CAMEO will work)

First open the shadowbox and trace the cardboard backing onto the decorative paper or card stock.

Next print out the words “Don’t peek til Christmas with your Silhouette machine.  MAKE SURE YOU MIRROR THE LETTER.  This way you can put the vinyl inside the glass instead of on top of the glass (this way you can clean the glass without making the vinyl peel up)

Also I added snowflakes and you can search the word “snowflakes” to find a TON of different designs that you may like.

Peel off the parts you don’t need while leaving the words on the paper and then lay a piece of Silhouette transfer paper over it.

Lift up the transfer paper with the words on it and lay it centered onto the piece of glass.  Rub it down well with a scraper and peel off the transfer paper.

Next place the glass back into the box and add the foil wrapped gifts inside and close up the box with the decorative paper or cardstock showing in the back.

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I just had to share this project I just completed with my Silhouette machine.  I absolutely LOVE how it turned out and can’t believe something so pretty can be made from paper.  Total cost of this project was around $3 (99¢ for the design, $1.99 for the glitter card stock and 29¢ for the vellum - plus I had a coupon to use at Michaels)

How to make this DIY “Let It Snow” snowflake lantern:

1. First, I bought a sheet of vellum and a sheet of glitter card stock from Michaels Crafts (I already had a battery operated tea light but they can be purchased many places including Bed Bath & Beyond)
2. Next, I downloaded the 3D Snowflake Lantern from the Silhouette Online Store and loaded it into the studio
3. Place the sheet of glitter card stock onto your cutting mat and load it into your Silhouette machine
4. Set your blade on a “6” for Glitter card stock
5. Once the design is cut, remove all of the unwanted pieces (this is called weeding)
6. Lay the vellum on the back side of the cut out lantern and glue it down (I used a mix of an Elmer’s glue stick and Elmer’s adhesive roller)
7. Trim off the excess vellum so none shows around the edges
8. Now you will need to make pre-folds on all the perforated lines
9. Start folding the lantern into the correct shape and glue down the folds inside the lantern (I used the adhesive roller for this step because it holds stronger)
10. Use brads to attach the handle (I skipped this step and just glued it together but plan to find some pearly brads to add later)
11. Lastly, place a battery operated tea light inside the lantern and enjoy its beauty !

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I love hanging wreaths on my front door but have never had one for Halloween so I decided to make a simple “bat” wreath.  All you need to buy is a Styrofoam ring, grey yarn, 2 sheets of black felt and wiggly eyes.  NOTE: Because I cut my bats too small, the eyes looked funny so I left them off.

Start by hot gluing down the end of the yarn onto the styrofoam ring and wrapping it around and around the ring making sure to keep it close together without overlapping.  This is a great project to get your teenager to do when she complains that she is bored 😉

One you are done wrapping the entire ring, cut the yarn and hot glue down the end.

Next find a pattern of a bat to cut out of the black felt (you can click on the pattern below and then print it out to use as a pattern).  I really wish I had cut my bats a little bigger but this ended up looking good enough that I didn’t feel like going to Michaels and getting more felt.

Once your bats are cut out, hot glue them onto the wreath.  Lastly, create a loop onr the back to hang it.

FYI: make sure your loop on the back is attached really well or it will cause the wreath to fall which will completely break the styrofoam ring.  🙁 Thankfully Kaley was able to fix mine by hot gluing it together and rewrapping the yarn.