How to Make a Copper Pot Shadow Box

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Make a shadow box out of a copper pot; 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 a Copper Pot Shadow Box
Hello this is Jenny with simply beautiful craft on behalf of expertvillage.com. We have used this CD holder from Big Lots in a variety of ways to make shadow boxes. We left it horizontally and we have used it to hold keepsakes. We have turned it up in this stair step form and we used it to hold flower pots. There is one more way that I like to show you that I thought would be really be kind of a striking way to use this CD holder. I have these simple little copper pots and I thought wouldn't they be striking if they simply sat in this shadow box this way but how in the world would I get them to stay. Would I have to hang them from the top. How could I keep them? So I took a piece of dial and I cut it off, so I have to small pieces and just used Elmers glue and I put my pot in my shadow boxed and I marked where the edges of the pot hits my shadow box. Put some glue on the two little pieces of my dial stick just Elmers glue and glue them into the shadow box in the spots that I have marked. Then I put my little copper pot in there and sure enough it was nice and stable and it was even. When you are glue is still wet you can move it around a little bit and get it to sit just exactly where you want it to. When I'm finish putting these little pieces of wood in all three I will take some paint or even a marker and make sure that they end up being the same color. Then I put my pots back in, add a little bit of glue, and I have a very simple and yet a very dynamics shadow box showing my little copper pots. That is the third way that I have used to turn this CD holder into a shadow box.

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