"Distant Memories" Shadow Box

1)  My completed shadow box project.

2)  As everyone else has shared, our piano rolls were presented in the mail quite specially embellished.  I loved Sues touches with the black/white ribbon, vintage key, tag and initial.  Details are the icing!

3) I used a paper cutter and cut pieces of the piano paper roll into sections to fit on the insides and bottom of my box frame.  I then used the deco podge to glue it down to the box.  After it dried, I then took this distress ink which I love the effect of and used an old sock to rub on the ink to distress all of the paper as well as the torn edges and cut outs of the paper.

4) I used a paper cutter and cut pieces of the piano paper roll into sections to fit on the insides and bottom of my box frame.  I then used the deco podge to glue it down to the box.  After it dried, I then took this distress ink which I love the effect of and used an old sock to rub on the ink to distress all of the paper as well as the torn edges and cut outs of the paper.

5)  I decided that the exterior and front edge also needed to be deco podged, so I did this as an after thought.  I ended up using the fabulous vintage black trim, but also used the paper trim that was the protector on this vintage trim roll.  I had only about 2" to spare.  I feel like this black trim really enhanced the project, so I'm glad it worked out since it was an after thought.

6)  The alphabet tags are from are scrapbooking supplies, which I just punched out and added vintage brown string to each one and tied them.  I also deco podged this onto the memory box and centered it at the top of the box.  I only had so many of each letters, so needed to be creative with the name I chose for my project.

7)  This photo shows the incorporation of the piano roll end, which provides the name of the music.  In my case, it was "Polka - Majurka" and there wasn't any other writing on my music roll like some of the other contributors had on theres.  I decided to carry on with the polka theme, so when I bought the 45LP for this project, I chose another polka, this one was "Little Bad Boy Polka".  Fun!

8)  "Little Bad Boy Polka" 45LP was purchased for a $1.00.

9)  This photo shows some of the little "Distant Memories" objects that I've included in this memory box.  There is a vintage black cloth coin purse, the skeleton key Sue included in her wrapping, vintage various buttons (bone, wood and mother of pearl), vintage wooden spools, as well as a vintage glass medicinal bottle.

10)  I've attached the remaineder of the music roll to the inside of the memory box, by drilling a hole on either end of the roll through the plastic and than two more through the box.  I got lucky with stringing my wire through the roll (my dh didn't think it would work), and fastened it on the backside.   This paper roll is unwound underneath the scrapbooking French Memory plastic sheet overlay and modge pog'd down to the box.

11)  The music roll in place in the memory box.

12)  Another finished project photo.