ShadowBox Blog Hop

                      Lorelei's Shadowbox Giveaway
                            and Blog Hop!


About a month ago Lorelei had a wonderful giveaway. She gave away 23 shadowboxes (I borrowed the picture of the boxes from Lorelei's blog because I forgot to photograph it before I used it!). There was only one rule "think outside the box ":)  I received the purple one. My initial thought was that I was going to make it into a little bitty photo album that would pull out with all my nieces and nephews pictures.  Then I thought maybe doing a little picture with microbeads could be fun. That went from forming a flower and changed to forming a  heart shape.



Then I was going with the whole idea of adding wings to the back and calling it give your heart wings. Once I added the wings I ran into these little arms and legs, and suddenly...I was forming a body!

 
Then I found these little enamel drops that just happen to match the box perfect. So out went the traditional wings, and I formed wings out of these little drops. So I had a body, now I needed a head. Found a button with two holes. Of course, my head was empty, so I dug around for a crown. It was gold, so I painted it silver to match the arms and legs, and the bottom flourish of the crown reminded me of hair, so I painted that yellow.

By now she was way to big to be a necklace anymore. So what to do with her? I decided she could be a fairy in my garden. So out went the heart, and I stitched her body with three little flowers, and made the sky pink and blue (after all it's a fairy world) to match her wings.

And that is how this crazy lil out of the box garden fairy came to be. 

Here is the list that Lorelei's so sweetly put together, so you can see what everyone else came up with :)

1.Lucid Moon Studio

2. Ann Rishell

3. Malin de Koning

4. Gray Girl Studios

5. Maria Grimes

6. Beads of Busy Gals- Elizabeth

7. The Silly Pearl

8. Shay Stone- Shays creative journey

9. LissC

10. the Beading Yogini

11. Grubbi

12. Jenny Davies- Reazor

13. Beth of Elizabeth Williams

14. Artybecca

15. Stefanies Sammelsurium

16. KreativeKsapylet

17. Shirley- Beads & Bread

18. Hilary Frye- FryeStyle

19. Heather Wynn Millican

20. Staci Louise Originals

21. Suzette- Ellie's Bijoux

22. Marina - Fanciful Devices

23. Andrew Thornton