DaScrapAddict: Bad Girls Project 52 Challenge #7

I really love Bad Girls and their Project 52 Blog. The newest challenge is up here!.

It is:
Challenge # 7 – Shadow Box (good size, found, cigar, repurposed, or purchased, etc…)
Theme – Insects
(butterflies, bees, spiders, moths, mantis, or caterpillars, etc…)
Required material – Fabric
(velvet, cotton, felt, lace, old/new, or antiqued, etc…)

Here is what I created for it. I started with an unfinished box. Replaced the lid with clear acrylic, covered it in antique dictionary pages and distress painted it. Stenciled butterflies on it and filled the interior with flowers and paper and acrylic butterflies. I had fun!!

Hope you join in the challenges too!!

About the Artist

Hi, I’m Vickie Flinchum an Oregon City Mixed Media Assemblage Artist, playfully identifying myself as “Da Scrap Addict.” Originally hailing from the Deep South, I spent many years in Kentucky, Florida and Texas before relocating to the Pacific Northwest. I’m self taught with no formal artistic education. My love of art has followed me from childhood, with learning, exploring and creating being a life-long passion. My fascination with color and texture, and corrosion and weathering is reflected in my work where I often combine vintage baubles, found objects and distressed elements to express my artistic voice. I have over a decade of experience in the Paper Crafting and Scrapbooking industry as a product demonstrator and designer, blogger, design team member, educator and published artist. My works have been featured in Cloth, Paper Scissors Magazine; The Big Book of Scrapbooking Ideas and The Bind-It-All Around the World – Idea Book. I regularly exhibit at Moonlight Coffeehouse, Boutique & Gallery in Oak Grove and Three Rivers Artists Guild Gallery located in the Singer Hill Cafe in Oregon City.