After I finished my winter shadow box I knew I wanted to make more. I browsed all the designs from 3dcuts.com. They are all really nice and a good basis for personalization.
Here’s what I made as a birthday gift for my dad:
Close up:
In progress pics:
I still can’t quite wrap my head around how this is done to be so 3-D, but the result is so lovely! You sure captured the mood of a quiet hike…the greens are so calming. I know your dad will be thrilled to have something so well made and beautiful to look at!
Oh, I love it so much. It makes me want to walk right into the scene and head on that walk with them.
This is such a calming scene. He’s going to love it!
This is absolutely stunning, what a wonderful & thoughtful gift!
I’ve been eagerly waiting for you post this one! It looks sooooooooo good. Your dad will adore it. The layers and colors and entire composition is perfection!
I really, really love how you use paint/ink to make the simple layers into something more detailed and artful. Your techniques really elevate the scene!
This looks so cool! Did you cut the paper yourself or use some sort of machine? It looks great!
@AIMR, @sweets4ever, @wittychild, @ezrib, @Tapestry, @TheMistressT, @RagingSloth, @mannymaker thank you!
The gift was a massive hit. My dad even asked if I used a picture of him for reference. I did not but I picked the figures and colors in a way to resemble him closely. The fun thing is that there are tons of pictures of him hiking with a dog or a kid or a grandkid photographed from behind. My mom was an avid photographer and my dad wasn’t comfortable when he noticed someone taking pictures. So lots of outdoor pics looked like that.
I think the layering and the coloring in combination does wonders to achieve the 3D effect. I would like to color the next one with watercolors to make it more durable than markers. I’m a bit afraid that it might turn out blotchy when I put lights behind a watercolor image.
I also would like to draw up some indoor scene for my brother. A shadowbox depicting his kitties in some way. I guess that might be more difficult than outdoor sceneries because things that are closer to us need to be more 3d. I’m going to ask my SIL for some pictures of their cats and hope I get an idea.
I used a very old silhouette cameo cutter that I finally was able to get running in Linux.
Beautiful. I love the way the marker looks with it.
Thank you!
This is gorgeous. I got a little teary looking at it, and I’m not even your Dad!
I’m sure he treasures this.
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Such a wonderful gift!
Thank you!
Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the details of your process. I hope someday to get serious about (i. e. actually use) my Silhouette machine.
Thanks!
I’m pretty sure that time will come. Before I started the shadow boxes I didn’t use it for at least a year. I have a pretty old silhouette 1 and user it a lot in the beginning. Then only occasionally when it got older and harder to maintain. Now that I got it running like a charm in Linux I hope to use it more often again.
This is absolutely beautiful
