How to Make an Italian Food Theme Shadow Box

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Make a shadow box with an Italian food theme; 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 Italian Food Theme Shadow Box
Hello this is Jenny with simply beautiful crafts on behalf of expertvillage.com. What in the world would you do with different kinds of pasta to make a shadow box. Well I have a dear friend who is a chef and made a absolutely amazing meal for us and I want to do something special for him. I got this idea. I took different kinds of pasta, curly Q's, the color pasta and wheat spaghetti and decided to make something unique. I have this wire and string basket. So I took this spaghetti and I actually wired it first and attached it to the basket. Well I wired it and tied it with a rafia but attached it to the basket with wire. Then I found this wonderful wooden spaghetti spoon and of course this wonderful spaghetti fork and decided that they would look good crossed over in here. Then I have a little jar of oil and herbs to put right in the middle. Then I took a good old congregate board board piece, cut it out and simply glue on with Elmers glue, the different kinds of pasta. Before I did that I poked a hole in it and put some raffia through it so I can tie it to the back of my basket. So I put the strings through the raffia through. One on one side one on the other. Position it where I want it. Make sure that it is in the angle that I want and tie it. I don't need to put a picture hanger on the back of this because it is open. So when you hang it on the wall you can hang it by a wire and because it is a very strong sturdy basket it won't need anything else to hang it. Now you could put against your wall and have it against the white wall with a white background or you could back your wire basket with something else if you would chose. For instance you could put some gold paper behind it and as you could see that give it a very different look or you could put a bright orange paper behind it or anything else that would go with the decorate of your room or the person that would be receiving this as a gift. But that is a very unique way to use a wire and string basket to make a shadow box out of pasta.

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