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Hi All!
While shopping with the wife the other day, I saw tons of these Marvel character shadowboxes everywhere we went.
I thought they were cool but I'm not a comic book or character guy.
So I browsed through them but no Baseball or Football players. I would have thought that if the company that makes these would have paid Disney for the rights on all the Marvel stuff, you would think they'd do the same for MLB of NFL, NOPE!
So, since I was in the store, I looked at an 14"x11" shadowbox frame; $4.99! SCORE!
Got it home, thought about it for a small bit, then did some photoshop work.
Came up with this background.
The background is a collage of photoshopped Jay Bruce cards that I have made over the years. The background cost $2.99 to print.
Then I grabbed some common Jay Bruce cards, did a small layout on the background.
Here's what we came up with:
I picked out the '15 Heritage, my wife picked out the mini '87, my 10yr old picked out the '14 Archives. I didn't want to do just cards, so photoshopped a pic of Jay Bruce batting, the Reds current logo and the name/number/team rectangle. The Jay Bruce batting cost $0.99 to print, the Reds logo and rectangle I printed at home on my dye-sub printer, maybe $0.20 to print.
Now to make them stand out. I had some foam from some packed from Amazon over Christmas, I cut it down to size. Had to use a hot glue gun to make it stick to the background and the card to stick to the foam. I am wondering about the cards curling over time through the different humidity ups and downs over the seasons, but time will tell.
I didn't want to cut the foam pieces down as I'm going to use the rest of it on another project, so I used some of those dummy inserts people use in mailed cards.
All together from top right angle:
Here it is over top, notice I had to notch the corners at 45 degrees and punch 4 holes, this was so it could mount in the frame.
In the frame, from the side: The Shadow Effect!
And straight on:
Finally on the wall:
So for under $10 and about 3-4 hours of time on photoshop and picking up the prints, not too bad.
Oh, those cards underneath you ask? I'll post another under $10 offseason project later in the week.
Hope you all enjoyed this and hope you decide to make one of your own. I think one of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken or Pete Rose would look really cool.
Thanks for reading,
Fordman
While shopping with the wife the other day, I saw tons of these Marvel character shadowboxes everywhere we went.
I thought they were cool but I'm not a comic book or character guy.
So I browsed through them but no Baseball or Football players. I would have thought that if the company that makes these would have paid Disney for the rights on all the Marvel stuff, you would think they'd do the same for MLB of NFL, NOPE!
So, since I was in the store, I looked at an 14"x11" shadowbox frame; $4.99! SCORE!
Got it home, thought about it for a small bit, then did some photoshop work.
Came up with this background.
The background is a collage of photoshopped Jay Bruce cards that I have made over the years. The background cost $2.99 to print.
Then I grabbed some common Jay Bruce cards, did a small layout on the background.
Here's what we came up with:
I picked out the '15 Heritage, my wife picked out the mini '87, my 10yr old picked out the '14 Archives. I didn't want to do just cards, so photoshopped a pic of Jay Bruce batting, the Reds current logo and the name/number/team rectangle. The Jay Bruce batting cost $0.99 to print, the Reds logo and rectangle I printed at home on my dye-sub printer, maybe $0.20 to print.
Now to make them stand out. I had some foam from some packed from Amazon over Christmas, I cut it down to size. Had to use a hot glue gun to make it stick to the background and the card to stick to the foam. I am wondering about the cards curling over time through the different humidity ups and downs over the seasons, but time will tell.
I didn't want to cut the foam pieces down as I'm going to use the rest of it on another project, so I used some of those dummy inserts people use in mailed cards.
All together from top right angle:
Here it is over top, notice I had to notch the corners at 45 degrees and punch 4 holes, this was so it could mount in the frame.
In the frame, from the side: The Shadow Effect!
And straight on:
Finally on the wall:
So for under $10 and about 3-4 hours of time on photoshop and picking up the prints, not too bad.
Oh, those cards underneath you ask? I'll post another under $10 offseason project later in the week.
Hope you all enjoyed this and hope you decide to make one of your own. I think one of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken or Pete Rose would look really cool.
Thanks for reading,
Fordman
