Tsunami Rose Designs: DT Leader & Coordinator Kimberly's lovely Shadow Box using the "Polished Lackluster" Printable Journal

Here I am once again sharing a project with you from Tsunami Rose Designs. I have to warn you thou, I am so far out of my comfort zone on this project, proceed with caution. *smile*

This week, I decided I wanted to create a shadow box. Well, something sort of like one anyways. I have had this old Prima flower box for a year or more and have always wanted to create something with it. So, when the opportunity arose, I decided to try my luck.

For this project, I used the Polished Lackluster Printable Journal.

For the background, I took one of the papers and opened it up in Adobe Photoshop, I then sized it to an 8 x 11.5 size so I could trim it down to the size of the inside of the box. I so love anything that has flowers on it and most all of Tsunami Rose Printable Journals have some kind of flowers on them.

Once I had the paper cut to size, I inked the edges so they were all black. I really like how the one side of this paper looks like lace or beads, and I was very careful to not lose that look when I trimmed and inked.

I then added the large diamond flourish, and began to add my homemade flowers. I have really taken a liking to making my own flowers. I used to think they were to hard to do. They really aren't, they are just time consuming, and I burn my finger tips often with the hot glue gun. *grin* The flowers around the flourish are simple rolled roses with ink tips. All of my flowers are also made from one of the pages from the journal.

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In the other corner, I added a nifty pocket envelope and a journal card. I also added a beautiful ticket. Again, everything here has flowers on them. I topped the corner off by adding three more hand made roses. This time, I chose not to ink the edges. Now that they are finished, I am regretting that decision. I chose not to mostly because I could not decide what color I should use, black seemed to dark, while pink seemed to light. One of the three, however, I did add a touch of Tattered Angel spray to give it a tiny bit of sparkle.