Project 6: Shadowbox of Condoms

This summer the Division of University Life put together safer sex kits for the Metro DC area.  In these kits were some nifty condoms by One.  One does a cool thing of allowing people to design the packaging.  I kept noticing cool things in the packaging and held onto a few.  I vowed back in July, that I would make something with them.

I made a stop by Michael's Arts and Crafts tonight and picked up some inexpensive shadow boxes.  Let me just tell you that you get what you pay for.  There's a reason you get 3 shadowboxes for a good price. LOL  At any rate, it all worked out.

Supplies Used:
Shadowbox
Glue Gun
Condoms
Scissors/Circular cutter

I took the shadowbox and had to add my own cloth background to the board. Normally it comes already covered. Luckily I had some back fabric that did the trick.  I got out the trusty glue gun and adhered ithe fabric to the backing board and began to layout the condoms. I used a circular cutter to trim off the excess fabric.

Once I figured out the layout of the condoms, I decided to raise some of the packages to give it some dimension in the case.

The only thing that I would do differently is to buy a larger and higher quality shadowbox. With more space I could have done the layout more creatively.

Project 4: Matchbook Keepsake

I've been collecting books/boxes of matches for a while.  Since I was in the midst of doing this challenge, I figured I may as well do something with them.  I think that'll be the case with a lot of these projects.

Supplies Used:
Shadow Box
Hot Glue Gun
Collection of matchbooks

I'm really happy with the results of this project.  The hardest part was doing the layout.  I placed everything on the board and kept playing with the arrangement until I was happy.  Originally I was going to just have the matchbooks laid out all simple. Then I decided to look into one of the boxes and noticed that the matches look cool!  So I played around with that.  I also thought it was a nice touch to have some matches laying out.  I used the hot glue gun to hold everything in place.