Monday, March 14, 2011

Laundry Shadow Box

I was wandering through my favorite store, Home Goods, when I came across this beautiful shadow box.
It had a vintage feel to it with it's distressed grey finish and linen fabric lining.
I fell in love with this frame...and at $14.99 I couldn't resist it.  I decided I would make a vintage collage for my newly renovated mud/laundry room.
You can click here and here to check out the renovation.

I started by creating these letters on Picnik.
Then the layering process began.  I cut out two different papers...one I rounded the corners and the other I made into a diamond shape.

With letters in place, my next step was to go to the Graphics Fairy and pick out some vintage laundry prints.
I bought mini clothes pins from Michaels craft store and hung my laundry sign on my "clothesline" cut from the same scrapbook paper as one of the layers.  This also allowed me to hot glue the clothespins onto the paper rather than onto the fabric, in case I some day change this.  I also cut out flowers out of the left over paper and pinned those on as well.

So now I have a little art to look at hung right behind the washer and dryer.  What do you think of my little creation?  I love how it came out.
I always look forward to and appreciate your comments.  Hope to hear what you think of this shadow box.

-Judy

29 comments:

  1. I love this!!! Are those large frames from Ikea?

    thanks for stopping by! love your blog - following you back! : )

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  2. LOVE it Judy! Such a neat idea!!!

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  3. this turned out great! i love it!

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  4. Judy I LOVE IT!! Your are so creative. Martina

    PS- I can never resist Home Goods either!

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  5. Really cute!... love the color combo. The graphics are way cool too.

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  6. Great shadow box. Have a gal pal that just moved into a new house and decorates her laundry room. I love this idea. Thanx for sharing. Tiff at The Cranky Queen

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  7. I love the clothes pins holding the individual letters, a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. So cute! You did a great job!

    Krystine

    http://lucyluvinyl.blogspot.com/

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  9. Very creative and so sweet.
    Ivy

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  10. What a cute idea!! Thanks for your sweet comments on my blog :) I am you newest follower:)!

    Abbi

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  11. Hi Judy! That is just so perfect for your mudroom and I'm always so impressed with your creativity! :-)
    Vanessa

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  12. Love this project! it came out great! I'm following you now. Thanks for visiting our blog.

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  13. ADORABLE!!!!! So creative. YOu really were thinking INSIDE the box:):) XO, Pinky

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  14. So cute! Looks perfect in your new laundry room!

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  15. That turned out so cute! What a great paper project without needing a fancy machine! I love it. I'm a new follower from the Homemaker on a Dime Swap. I'm a little behind because last week was so crazy. I'd love for you to stop by and follow back.

    Sam
    thejunkhouse.blogspot.com

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  16. I love how that turned out! You're so creative! What a lovely addition to your gorgeous new laundry room.

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  17. This is just to darn cute for words...other than laundry!

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  18. I love how it turned out as well! I love the letters and the shadow box, thanks for following and your nice comments. I am following you back!

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  19. Great idea. I love the laudry graphics you chose. So cute. ~~Sherry~~

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  20. So cute, love your new laundry. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of your blog!

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  21. Love this idea! What a clever, creative idea.

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  22. Glad you found me and I you! I bought the same box but mine sits in a closet yet untouched! What a cute artwork you made for a functional area to make it pretty--very pink living in my book! Love it

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  23. Dang, you sure do have a nice laundry room!!
    Barb

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  24. Love this project, very creative! and your laundry room is adorable. Who wouldn't want to do laundry in this room???

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  25. So cute! I wish I were so creative. Maybe some day in the not too distant future I can tackle a project like this!

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  26. This is awesome! I've been trying to do some laundry renovation, and this gave me some great insight for things to try. Thanks for sharing!

    laundry Brisbane

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