 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I am going to be showing you how to make this Easter shadow box completely over the top, if not somewhat garish, but I absolutely love it. You know I know lots of you do like to make these shadow boxes, I done one at Christmas time and I've made a few other kind of projects like this I guess, so I'll just share the playlist up here, you can go and check them out. But you see I've got the flashing Easter egg lights at the top there, I've got all that tinsel, it's full of all the stuff that I've shared in lots of my what did I get videos and I just love it, so let me show you how to make it. Okay so the papers I'm using are the Dovecraft Back to Basics, love this pack, so I've got the stripes and I'm going to use the polka dots on the inside, so for my hinges I have just got this paper that will match quite nicely and again whenever I do the hinges I like to use this one here, so it's 135gsm, it's a drawing pad from Liddle, but the papers they're really nice and strong you know they're perfect for for using as I am, so I'm going to go through all the measurements of everything there, so this is a piece of card from the packaging in the Arteza felt letterboard that I had, so I just thought this would be perfect for the back of my shadow box, but you can use the greyboard as if I didn't have this I'll be using my greyboard, so you want a piece of 12x12 and this is the greyboard that I used, it's the same one again I've used for every all my 3d projects and the storage pieces it's this and it's the 2mm and I get it on amazon and again the links will be shared below, so you want a piece of 12x12 then you'll need two pieces that are 4x12, so these are going to be for the sides and these are all sticking on top of this 12x12 piece, so that's the side pieces, we'll do the pattern paper later and then for the top and the bottom you want two pieces of 4x11 and three quarters because these are going to go on here and then obviously this is going to go next to that side and this is going to go next to that side, so these ones the top and the bottom do need to be that little bit shorter but you'll see there how that's all going to sit, okay so what I've gone ahead and done is I've covered the tops of them all because you don't need to see me do that and these I'm just using are one by the whole length of whatever one it is, so you'll want two for the 4x12 pieces which will be one by 12 and then you'll want two for these pieces which will be one by 11 and three quarters, again this will all be listed on my blog, so first of all so get all of those covered and then you'll want some more hinges here, so these here are bigger, that one was a bit of scrap but these ones I've done is two by 12 okay and we're going to attach it onto the end of this like just one half and then the other half we're going to stick onto this, so first of all once I start putting it together it's you know you'll know what exactly what to do and those of you that have done a lot of my storage and kind of home decor pieces then you'll know exactly what to do now and I'll share the playlist if I haven't already just lots of nice things that you can be making at home ways to decorate your house you know for Easter or for Christmas there's all sorts on there you know and you can do these with the children and things like that as well so I'm going to stick that one I'm going to pop the writing on the outside because I know my paper's going to cover that so this is the exact length there you'll see of the greyboard spend a minute getting that all stuck down and whilst that one's drying grab your other piece and stick it to your other four by 12 piece okay so those are both on there next this one now I have got quite a you know a depth to this piece if yours is just a normal two mil then it won't matter but this is going to the greyboard is going on top of this you see there you've got to make sure it sits on top and then that's going to wrap just bring it up to the exact length they go that's going to wrap around underneath but you have to make sure that this sits on top of here because if you put it on the side and then when you go to stick down your top on your bottom there's going to be a gap all right so do make sure it goes on top so run some glue on the greyboard itself on that little two mil width and then all over the paper as well you lay it down like this you'll be able to push against your desk and bring up the sides there if you grab your bone folder you can push that up on the side you see there what I'm doing and again just push that greyboard onto the top of this because you would have put some glue on there and we're going to put hinges inside this as well eventually all along this so the whole thing will become very very strong this is just starting it off is always that little bit more fiddlier I guess just holding everything in place until it sticks but once we get these all down and the rest will come together very quickly okay so that now holds itself up which is what you want okay so do the same again with the opposite side okay and then get two more pieces of 12 by 2 and stick them inside here and that will just give the support to the sides okay so they're all in place now now I've got these lights that I want to add in now if you'd watched my Christmas shadow box that I made I was able to just make a small hole in the top right hand corner when everything was together and feed the lights in because there were the small rice lights but these ones here as you can see they're these really fun easter egg shape so I actually need to have these inside this section before I put the sides on so I've tested that they work these ones here I picked up from Bastins which were £3.49 it's the LED egg garland and I believe you'll be able to pick these up in places like the range and things like that and probably on Amazon so you know have a little look around but I thought how nice would these look kind of I don't know I might double them up like so and have them around the top but I can sort that out more when we get to it so I'm not worried about how much you know why is in here right now I just need to make sure that there is a you know well there's just you know I get this in first really before I put that down because now this is going to go on top like so and I'm just going to have to kind of pack it around there as long as the I probably don't want all of that probably best to keep that out and then that pack will be attached to the back of the box so if you are going to have lights that are a bit bulky then you want to do what I'm doing now and get them in place before you know you put this down because there's nothing worse than I mean I guess you could have them coming over here because I'm going to put a frame around this maybe some of the yellow tinsel that would you know cover this so in fact you've got me thinking now maybe I could do that I might look a bit better and give me a nicer finish I'm just thinking and then I could disguise that running along the top maybe I will do that well there's two options there depending on the lights you've got depending on the thickness of your you know your lead as well because everybody's will be different but I'm just wondering actually if I could just feed that and have it disguised along the top do you know what now I'm going to hide mine as I was going to do it so I'm going to keep mine down there so what I might do is I'm going to get my hot glue gun turned on just so I can pop a little bit of hot glue there not too much this is encased in like a plastic and then there's the wires you don't want to melt it so you're almost best putting the blob of hot glue down first letting it just slightly cool and then just pushing that onto it just so it kind of holds it in place more than anything so what we will do is whilst my hot glues warming up just ignore the lights for the minute this is going to go in here so you're going to want to make hinges for the outside here so you will need what have I got here so I would do just pop your ruler down and whatever it comes up at from the base yours was probably going to be just over four because you'll have more than likely you'll have a greyboard piece but because my piece here is quite thick mine's coming up at like four and a quarter so I'm going to cut myself four pieces of two by four and a quarter okay I'm going to feed the light in on this end in a moment I'm going to just on get this corner kind of in place so I've just got one of those hinges that I just said pop your glue on and then again this is sticking on top of your greyboard and then just bring that around and just make sure you've got a nice right angle and everything lines up nice seeing you want this to be nice and flush with the top of the greyboard again we're going to put hinges inside this again so it all becomes very very strong nice and reinforced the fact what you might want to do is just run some glue along here all the edge of this piece because obviously you have got an area there for it to stick against all right my glue gun isn't boiling hot yet so I can actually just come in there it's you know it's hot enough that it's coming out but it won't melt that plastic but it just means that I can just kind of just get it held in place there for a minute and now I can grab another one of my hinges and pop it on the back of that corner okay I'm just going to turn the lights off that's all coming together nicely and then again you want to do the same now at this end so you're going to stick that one in there so what I would do is I think it might be easier to just go around this side all down there this just helps really like I said we are going to add those longer hinges in but just add some glue on there just to give it a little bit more strength I think that's kind of holding itself there and then with those other two hinges you want to pop them on those corners just as you did before okay so I've got the shape now just need to put some more hinges in here just to strengthen it the lights I can just pop to one side but you'll now need two pieces that are 11 and three quarters by two or by one or by one and a half whatever it is you want to do just you know make sure it's going to hold and they're going to go there and one's going to go for me along the top there and then I've got these four pieces again depending on you know what you've got you might want to do one inch wide one and a half or two I've done one and a half for these ones and they're all by four and you'll want four pieces and there to go in these corners inside so I'm going to get that all stuck down okay so everything is done and I also went and added a hinge on the back here so just 12 by again whatever width you want to do and one down here this one's a slightly different yellow because I'd run out typical the last piece but it's all now a really nice secure box so next you want to add all your pattern papers and then we can decorate all of the inside and then finish it off with the acetate on top so you know it doesn't take too long I've done this within the hour so you know if anything now this this saw this decorating takes me ages but I love all that so this here is a piece of 11 and three quarters squared and this is what I'm going to have to lay right down inside here and I'll stick that down then I've got this really lovely pattern paper from the that pack and these are going to go on the sides so depending on you know what you're going to have but you can see there and I've got that nice border around there as well so I've got two pieces I think that were four by let me just double sorry no three and three quarters by 11 and a half okay and then you'll want two pieces that are again three and three quarters by 11 and three quarters okay so the longer ones will go on the sides those shorter ones will go on the top and the bottom so make sure you've got mine in the right place and then inside you'll want the same again but in maybe a different print it's entirely up to you because let me just double check that those ones yeah they should still know you may know you'll need to cut them in a little bit more actually what am I saying let me just check no they do fit the same size you just have less of a border so it's up to you I mean you bring them in a bit more if you want to but um so yeah so in total you would need eight pieces four of each of those sizes again it will be listed in my blog but because I'm doing different pattern I think I don't know whether I want to do polka dot see the polka dot could look nice all inside so anyway I'm going to get it all stuck down and you'll see what I decide to go for in a minute okay so everything is covered inside I've got this that same yellow up there because I just thought rather than you know it go into the scrapper might as well use it because you're not going to see under there but I kept the polka dot all inside here because you will see parts of this and then on the back I've just ran hot glue down there and I've just attached the battery pack make sure you stick the back down you know so that you can still open it so that's the you know the top there that I slide off to change the batteries and then I just put a piece of 11 and three quarters by 11 and three quarters paper just to cover the back so that is everything done next I'm going to start building up my scene inside my box I'm not going to talk through all the stuff that I'm going to use because I might not use every bit so I don't want to just talk about stuff that you may not then see me use so I'm going to do everything put it on high speed and then I'm going to talk you through the bits that I've used yeah I'm going to crack on and get this filled so there is my um shadow box finished I really like it I think it's so much fun it's completely over the top which is what I like and you can see there if I just come up nice and close I've got the acetate on the front now so again you probably couldn't have seen in me actually putting that on too well because obviously it's clear but if I just come up without knocking the camera so I've done a little happy Easter sign I've got loads of carrots all in the back there and again just trying there we go that's better you see that little chick in the egg that's brilliant that's from tiger and um probably get it online as well if you don't have a tiger store I'm not sure if they do online deliveries or not I've got those little egg little buckets again I think they were from tiger and you get a green a blue and a yellow and then the pink and then those eggs and everything it's all stuff I've shared in my what did I get so this egg here is actually one of mine from when I was a little girl so I just thought why not put it in something that least then I know it's not going to get lost and it's almost got a place now you know it's in this and this is something I will keep and bring out each year and uh yeah just again super pleased with it all put the green shredded paper on the bottom you would have seen me add that first to just kind of be like the grass and then just lots of carrots lots of Easter eggs the big carrots there along the bottom and all at the back and then the big vinyl on the back there is a window vinyl but I just left it on its um kind of release paper and just cut around it to give that white frame and then I finished it off with the yellow tinsel which I like to use you can see everything there it's got a really nice finish and then you've got your battery pack and everything on there so yeah I love it so I hope you've enjoyed this one so I know many of you do like to make this and it's just something fun for your home or give this as a gift you know it's just yeah I just think a really really colorful happy piece of home decor completely over the top but then I am so anyway hope you liked it please give me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed it and consider subscribing so you get to see some more fun tutorials and I'll be back very soon with another video see you then bye