How to Make an Oriental Shadow Box

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Make an oriental shadow box; learn this and more in this free arts and craft video taught by an expert shadow box maker.

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How to Make an Oriental Shadow Box
Hello this is Jenny with simply beautiful craft on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are making shadow boxes and this was a real find for me. I found it in I think it was Big Lots on a clearance I don't care for the picture in it but I decided that I would do something different with it. So I opened up the back and I took our what was already in there. Which was easy to do and then I had my shadow box and I had my card board. I decided that I want to make a oriental type shadow box out of this. Or chiropractor likes oriental art and I wanted to make this for him. So I found some cork board that has a peel of sticky back, cut it to fit the piece of card board that went in here, and then I took some oriental drawings. Got these off the Internet and got just plain ordinary card board. Cut it to fit. Spread a thin layer of glue on the card board. Glue them on. My next step would be to glue them on the cork board. I did this so it would have more of a 3-D effect. I kind of like 3-D instead of things being a little flat. So this glue now onto the cork board. Just good Elmers glue works fine for something like this and then I also have my chop sticks. So I would put my chop sticks on and glue them down and then I'm ready to put them back into its frame. I'm going to leave the chop sticks out just so I can show you what would happen. Slide it back into the frame. It doesn't matter if it is a little bit short at the end but once you have it back in the frame you have completely changed that shadow box from the rooster that was in it to a very nice 3-D oriental shadow box. I'm sure that Dr. Jay would like it.

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