shadowbox inspirations...

Did you sign up for the Birthday Treasury Shadowbox swap? Or, thinking about making a shadowbox of your own?

I love this shadowbox from One Lucky Day
...so inspiring! (click the link for fabulous details about this project)

Here's a list to get you inspired:

• Search the scrapbook aisle for fun papers and stuff to decorate the box
• Look to sites like Papier Valise and Speckled Egg for unusual materials 
• Enlarge a photo to the full size of the shadowbox and then cut it to fit in the boxes
• Use cabinet knobs, spools, game pieces, etc for feet 
• Make or find miniature cakes, cupcakes, candies, etc. 
• Use vintage dollhouse miniatures or make your own
• Add a pennant banner or garland for dimension
• Use jewelry bits to add sparkle 
• Charms are great miniatures
• Add a party hat to photos, cake picks, and figures
• Use children's book illustrations or paper dolls 
• Use Polly Pocket and other tiny doll toys
• How about a tiny jar of sprinkles?
• Use super tiny model railroad figures!
• Background, foreground and even middle-ground...use it all to give your shadowbox real dimension
• Mix scale within the shadowbox...a doll shoe is giant beside a n-scale railroad worker!
• Vintage Cracker Jack toys, Barbie doll shoes & clothes, 
• Think of the shadowbox as a 3-D art journal and include the same things you would there
• You can hang things from tops of the boxes, too! 

I love this shadowbox so much 

(made by Dottie Angel) 

And look at this fabulous shadowbox scrapbook 

found on Maya Road's design team blog:

And this fabulous shadowbox made by Katie Watson:

Don't you feel inspired? 

Comment with more inspiration if you'd like!