My Wild Card project landed me in first place {hooray!} but it was such a close race. Ashley and I were only six votes apart at the end. Thank you so much for your votes. I loved taking part in SYTYC and I felt like it really stretched my creativity. I’d love to do something similar again.
I gave you a sneak peek of my final project but I thought I’d show you the whole thing here.
For the Wild Card week, I decided to make something that’s been on my project list for a while. I love memories captured in shadowboxes and I decided to make a shadowbox that captures my early days with my husband.
To begin, I scraped out the {nasty} insides of a shadowbox from the Wisteria Outlet {my friend, Jenny, bought these for $5 a piece … how amazing is that?}. I love the chunky, black distressed frame. I was going for a vintage look with this shadowbox so I backed the box with wrinkled linen.
I photocopied parts of old love letters we wrote early in our relationship, tore the edges, wrinkled them up, and tea stained them to give them an old look.
A black and white photo of the two of us {long ago} sits in the middle of the letters. I wrapped a bit of twine around the photo to add some texture.
In the bottom corner, I added “p&r” {our initials} in frosted vinyl. It’s subtle but adds a fun touch.
I really love the outcome of this shadowbox and I love that this project captures such great memories for me.
I’ve started truncating my posts … please pop over to my blog to read the rest!
congrats. i too love shadow boxes!
Congrats on winning! I had fun following you on SYTYC! Can’t wait to do it again.
This is amazing!! 🙂
Yeah! Congratulations! It is gorgeous!
congratulations….i seriously LOVED all your projects!
way to go, girl! i voted for that sweet project 🙂
Congratulations! It was an awesome contest : ) You did a fantastic job!!
Congratulations on winning! It is a lovely memory frame!