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Autumn Leaves |
Create a shadow box made out of corrugated card-board and mat-board to hold the beautiful computer art "Autumn Leaves" created by Martha Washington.
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Materials:
* Print-out of the art work
* Print-out of this page
* 1 sheet of corrugated card-board - natural color
* 1 sheet of mat-board - brick color
* Hot glue gun
* Mat cutter or X-ACTO knife
* Double-stick tape
* Cotton string (about 6" long) and white tape
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Print this page for your reference and click on the image to get the full size art (make sure you have a good quality printing paper). Once you've printed the full size art click the "to print the Octahedron" button at the bottom right side of the page to get the full size print and the quotes.
Have fun!
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With the mat cutter or the X-ACTO knife cut a rectangle -15 1/2" x 10" out of the brick mat- board.Cut the art work leaving a 1/2" margin all around it. Apply the double stick tape all around the back of the artwork and place it on the center of the board.
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Out of the corrugated card-board cut out a 12 1/4'' x 6 3/4" rectangle. Cut out from this a 10 1/4" x 4 3/4" rectangle in the center creating a 1" frame.
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Take this frame and hot glue it to the mat-board making sure that it's centered. You might want to try it first and mark the right place with a little pencil dot at each corner.
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Now let's get to the shadow box itself: Out of the corrugated card-board, cut 2 shapes like this 15 1/2" long and another two of this same shape, 10" long.
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Score fold each of these corrugated card-board shapes, like shown in the picture, and hot glue them along the 4 sides of the mat-board.
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Cut out a 15 1/2" long x 10" hight x 1 5/8" wide frame out of the brick card-board and hot glue it to the folded corrugated frame.
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Attach the cotton string to the back for hanging purposes and there you have it: a nice shadow box encasing a beautiful artwork. Enjoy it!
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