Previously, I showed you the old, family photo my sister had, and how I edited it. I was so in love with the picture, I wanted to do a very special frame for it, hopefully, a shadowbox.
But I couldn't find a shadow box as ornate as I'd like. Instead, I bought a black, oval frame ($7, Hobby Lobby), painted and distressed it. Then, filled it as I liked and added the glass to the top rim of the frame instead of flat against the insides as it was meant to be.
I glued it down (Crafter's Pick, the Ultimate Glue), but the glass was made slightly larger than the place I wanted it to be, so I had to do some camouflage.
I goobered it up, with ruffled ribbon, and lots of foof. That took care of the problem.
The sisters were cut out of the picture, and edged in brown marker, with a little brown water color on the vintage, ledger paper behind them, to make them stand out. Their dresses were sparkled with a Gelly Roll stardust pen in clear, and I gave them millinery flowers to hold.
There was also a slight, gappy looking area around the inside of the frame, where the glass should have been before I decided it needed to be on top instead.
I ruffled some crepe paper and trimmed it to about a 1" long and then pressed it into a bead of glue all the way around the inside edge of the frame before permanently gluing the glass down to the top and foofing it up.