A Shimmery Shadow Box - for Brenda

Brenda (Bumblebees and Butterflies) came to visit me last week which was lovely. We chattered and caught up, and popped out to a couple of my local charity shops to pick up things to alter, but more of that at a later date.

I had made a shadow box frame (available from Happy Daze) as a gift for Brenda:-

I thought I'd take a separate photo of the backdrop without the frame, so you can see it in more detail:

It's a dipped background, then stamped with Crafty Individuals' text stamp in Sepia, and the bird and flourish in black. The birdcage is a shrink plastic Tim Holtz alterations one with a bit of ball chain to hang it from. The flowers have been stamped and punched and then each layer dipped in the melt pot before assembling. The vintage image is a Crafty Individuals' one, from one of their image pads, with UTEE poured over it. Bottom left is a piece of lace coaster from Poundland.

I don't often get the melt pot out, mainly because it needs more than a four inch square workspace! So I had a bit of a session. In the first picture you will see a butterfly top right on the frame. I bought a pack of four layered butterflies from my local Tiger for £1. The top two have been dipped in the melt pot, and the bottom two are at the moment, as they came:-

You may be able to spot in the first photo something else from Tiger, the little bottle of seed beads. My lovely friend, Jack, knows how much I like Tiger and she bought me a pack of these. I knew Brenda would like them too so I went in and got her a pack! If you don't have a Tiger, Crafty Individuals have just started stocking a gorgeous version at a great price here!