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Alcohol Ink Shadow Box Collage 

By Brandi Powell
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team Designer 

Supplies:

Instructions:

1.                Cut out word of your choice using box letters from Sizzix.  If you don’t own a die-cut alphabet set, you can use stickers or cut the letters out by hand.  Adhere the word to left side of box.

2.                Trim pieces of foil tape to cover inside and outside edges of box and cover with tape wrapping extra tape around the edge.

3.                Using an embossing stylus, go around the letters you have chosen to make them pop out.

4.                Randomly apply all three colors of alcohol inks to entire rim of box.  Do not ink the inside of the box, just the rim.  I went over the rim twice to darken and blend the colors.

5.                Apply silver encore ink with a sponge over the inked letters.

6.                Spray all ink with spray fixative.

7.                Cut piece of mat board to fit inside of box.  You will be collaging on the mat board.  Cover entire piece of mat board with purple patterned paper.  Stamp on purple paper with floral image from Art by Moonlight using CTMH pansy purple ink pad.  Tear a sheet of foreign dictionary page to a large triangle and adhere to right side of covered mat board.

8.                Trim flapper from collage sheet and adhere with spray adhesive about ¾ inch from the lower right on the mat board.

9.                Adhere Clock die-cut in upper right corner. Set aside. Set collage aside.

10.           Stamp star image from Art By Moonlight randomly with CTMH Outdoor Denim ink on light blue sky pattern paper. Ink stamp one and stamp twice for the light-dark color effect. 

11.           Stamp butterfly by Art by Moonlight onto purple pattern paper.  Cut out and adhere in the middle of the star pattern.

12.           Set dollhouse window on star/butterfly paper and trim around the window.

13.           Cut two 1” strips of green pattern paper.  Cut randomly with scissors.  Adhere on top of one another and then onto the blue star stamped paper as grass. Trim again around window.

14.           Spray back of window with spray adhesive and adhere to star/grassy paper.

15.           Adhere completed window with pop-dots in the middle of the left side of the mat board about ½” from the left. The window may go over the flapper a little bit.

16.           Apply spray adhesive to the bus ticket and slide partially under the wood window. 

17.           Spray light blue ribbon with spray adhesive and adhere to very bottom of the mat board. 

18.           Print out words of your choice and trim closely.  Cut each word or a few words individually and adhere randomly around woman.

19.           Add button stickers around the bottom for more decoration.

20.           Adhere pop-dots to back of mat board and slide into collage.  Push the dots so that they adhere to the wood.

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