Want a way to make custom lighted art pieces for your home? These are a creative way to show off artwork, or to make a memory piece for your home or for a gift. They are custom, unique and one-of-a-kind!
While searching the web for new ideas for artwork, I came across the works of Hari and Deepti in a NY Art Show. The artwork is amazing!!! These are called “Papercut Light Boxes”, and to buy one of Hari and Deepti’s artwork, it will cost you upwards of $3,000! Understandable because these are INCREDIBLE!!!
So in honor of these great works of art, I attempted to make similar artwork and was quite humbled by the whole experience! When you try it yourself at home…be creative and humble. Look upon mine as a DIY and a wee humble attempt to make artwork that’s comparable to the great H&D!
This is a really fun DIY, but a wee bit time consuming. I say throw on a movie and get creative! I made one for Home and Family, and one of my favorite silhouette themes of Africa. I was channeling my inner Lion King, with Simba (or Mufasa) looking over the pride land. You can make any image that you would like! Make it for a birthday or an anniversary…it’s a great way to make a unique art piece to keep in your home or give as a gift. Good luck!
You Will Need:
- Card Stock (65 pound)
- Foam sticky mounting tape
- Shadow box
- Single strand light
- Drill
- Hole drill bit large enough to fit the single strand light you buy
- Scissors
How To:
1. Design what you would like the picture to include. This can be up to your imagination. You can use this opportunity to give acclaim to your child’s accolades, or incorporate someone’s family name for a new home gift, or simply be a piece of art.
2. Decide how many layers you want your artwork to be. For this effect, you want to have at least 3 layers.
3. Cut out each layer, making sure they don’t cover up the image in the cutout of any other layers.
4. When you have all of the layers that you want, begin to build the structure of the artwork.
5. Using the foam mounting tape, cut small slices of tape and place them all around the artwork, making sure that the tape will be covered by the layers (you don’t want your tape showing).
6. Continue to do this so that all layers are attached to each other in one piece of art. 7. Take your shadow box and drill a hole in the bottom of the box large enough to place in your strand light.
8. Clean out any sawdust that got in your shadow box.
9. Put your light in the bottom of the shadow box and secure into place with the hardware that comes with the light (will vary according to manufacturer).
10. Put your layered artwork in the shadow box, securing the back layer to the back of the box with mounting tape.
11. Close it up and plug in.
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XOXO,
Paige