Always & Forever Shadowbox

I wanted to share this shadow box that I made for a friend of mine who's daughter just got married about 3 weeks ago. It was one of my projects I made last weekend during our scrap retreat/swarm. I have made a few of these before and they make beautiful gifts. I hope I inspire you to try making one~they are a lot of fun and the end result is great!!

I started with 12 x 12 black paper as my base. The base layer I used patterned paper cut at 11 3/4 x 11 3/4. I wanted to format around a 5 x 7 photo so I cut a mat size 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in cream,  a 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in pink and 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in black. Attaching a satin ribbon bow around the cream layer. I then cut a mat size 6 7/8 x 8 1/2 in cream, 7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in pink and 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 in black for the next layer. I used the Sweethearts cartridge to cut the dove at 2" and embossed it with the cuttlebug~swiss dots folder. I used the gypsy to weld the "Always & Forever" at 1.12 x 3.19 each word separately and the & symbol at 1.22 using Lyrical Letters cartridge. I welded the date at .49 x 2.06 and cut it on vinyl for easy placing. I used a SU punch for around the date. The pretty flower piece on the side of the layout I found at Michael's. Pretty ha??
Thanks for visiting,
Sherrie

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