Remove the backing from the shadow box and use adhesive tape to adhere a piece of cardstock.

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Set your photo on the middle of the cardstock and arrange paper flowers around it in a heart shape.

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Use hot glue to attach the paper flowers to the cardstock.

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Use adhesive tape to attach a wood disc in each corner on the back of the photo to elevate it up from the cardstock.

TIP: If you want it a little higher, hot glue discs together to create desired height, but make sure it will sit inside the shadow box.

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Hot glue the photo (with the wood discs) to the center of the flower heart.

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Use your Cricut® machine to cut out the word "love" (or word of choice) from white vinyl. To do this:

- First, log into your Cricut® Design Space™ account and click ‘New Project’.
- Next click on the ‘Text’ icon at the left side of your screen. Type the "love" (or the word you want to use); then choose your font. Size it to fit how you want onto the glass of your shadow box.
- Now, click ‘Make It’ in the upper right corner, and then click ‘Continue’ in the lower right corner of your screen.
- Place your vinyl, grid-side down, onto your cutting mat and load it into your Cricut® machine. Select ‘Vinyl’ as your material and follow the prompts to cut out your design. Once the machine has finished cutting, gently peel the vinyl away from your mat.
- Use scissors to cut away the vinyl around your design. Next, use your weeder tool to peel away the remaining negative space surrounding your word. When you’re done, only the design itself should be left on the backer paper.
- Cut a piece of transfer tape that’s just a bit larger than the word. Peel away the tape’s backer paper and place the tape, sticky-side down, over the cut-out initial. Burnish the vinyl so that it’s completely stuck to the tape.
- Gently peel the white backer paper from the word, which now should be stuck to the transfer tape.
- Hold the transfer tape with the word over the glass to determine where you’d like it to be to placed, then press it onto the glass. Burnish the vinyl once more to make sure it’s completely stuck to the glass and gently peel away the transfer tape. Your word has now been transferred to the glass on your shadow box. #@#Reassemble the shadow box.

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Mother's Day Floral Heart Shadow Box

Instructions

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS