Floral Shadow Box Gift

Hello there crafters! I was looking for a project to blog about for this week when I remembered by best friend's daughters first birthday is coming up. Perfect chance to put my new paper flower making skills to use! I decided to make her a personalized floral shadow box for her nursery. There are many variations of these types of boxes, I have even seen ones for new babies with their names and baby stats. Depending on how you want your flowers to look here are a few templates you can look at:

3D Floral Patterns: Cricut Design Space

The supply list is simple:

1. 9X9 Shadow Box (I got mine from Michaels on sale)
2. 25 sheets of light cardstock (3 different colors for my project)
3. 1 sheet of patterned cardstock
4. hot glue
5. vinyl

Start cutting your 3D floral patterns out and roll, roll, roll! This project takes 25 rolled flowers which takes about 2 hours or so. One of my biggest struggles is choosing colors that mesh well, for this box I chose a coral, purple, and mint green. My friend is obsessed with mint green and was hoping the other colors would go nicely with it. 

I chose a fading purple almost water-colored card stock for the back which really made the colors pop. Once all the flowers are rolled you can hot glue them onto the card stock and backing of the shadow box. 

Last step is designing the vinyl for the front. White is the best color in my opinion because it is easy to see above the flowers. I designed my friends daughters name with a rose that I will attach to the front and walla!

These boxes are perfect gifts and my plan is to create a few more and post them on my etsy shop. They are a little time consuming but so simple and fun! Happy crafting!