Brooch Shadow Boxes Art.
Today I’m going to show you a special Christmas gift I was hired by my aunt to put together for her sisters. My great-aunt died early this year and while going through her house and cleaning we came across a huge amount of old pins or brooches, you might say. My aunt immediately had the idea to put them together in shadow boxes and I took it from there. Now, my aunt is not a rich woman so this had to be on he CHEAP.
Here are a few of the pins/brooches:
I went to Michaels looking for the shadow box frames, and they had a set of 3 for $20 plus they were 40% off. Score! There were plenty of pins to do 3 boxes and I still had lots left over! I had the plan of lining the back of the box with some type of black velvety fabric or something, but when I was at Michaels I saw the T-shirts were 2 for $5 so I had the idea of going with those. I bought 2 of them in XXL size and only used 1 to do all 3 boxes.
I worked for a few days here and there laying out the pins in different arrangements until I got to something I liked.
So I took the back off the shadowbox frame, cut a piece of black foam board (from Hobby Lobby) to size, covered it with the black T-shirt and secured it with double sided tape (I just didn’t peel off one side of the tape). Then I took each pin and stuck it into the foam board until it would stay put and hang straight where I wanted it. When I was satisfied with how each one looked, I put the backs back onto the frames and voila! Here they are:
Okay, do you have any idea how difficult it is to photograph something inside glass? ha!
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All in all, I am very happy with how these look! What do you think?
I’m sharing my project here:
4 Responses to “Brooch Shadow Boxes Art.”
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Oooo… very pretty. Such a creative idea.
This is so beautiful! I’m pinning this for a friend who has a lovely brooch collection. Thanks for sharing!
What a wonderful idea! These look so great and are such an artistic way to display these items and remember your loved one. Great job!
these are so pretty. Don’t you just love these old pieces of jewelry? They were so sparkly and intricate. I love how you used them. I took a bunch of them and covered an evening bag. I liked how that turned out as well. When I get tired of that I will have to remember this idea. Thanks for sharing on Motivated Monday at BeColorful.
Pam