Can't You Hear the Thunder - Suzanne's Australian Shadow Box with Mailbox

G'day Crafty Mates!
Wow.... can you believe that today is the last day of November! I know I say this every month but seriously!!
Today Suzanne wraps up our month of Aussie Crafting with a perfect Australian project....  a shadow box and mailbox that just sings Aussie Bush!!

Hello everyone. My final project with the November kit from Aunty Vera was probably the most fun to make.  I do love to get messy and to try out different things and for this project I made a 12 x 12 shadow box with a difference. 

I started out with a 12 x 12 shadow box from Tiddleybitz  (got it from the op shop)  which I had to construct and then paint.  I used some green paint from Kaisercraft in a lovely shade of olive green to match the papers from Kaisercraft that are in the kit called the 'Open Road' collection.

I then used the full sheet with the dirt road and gum trees for the feature of the shadow box and I decorated it with several stickers from the sticker sheet and  a couple of boomerangs from the wooden elements from Kaisercraft.

I then made a mail box and a farm name sign to go with my shadow box.

I used a cardboard cylinder and hot glue to make a tree stump and then painted it with varies shades of grey paint

 I made a mailbox using the corrugated tin paper from the collection and made a parcel, a newspaper and some letters to go inside the mailbox and glued it to the top of the tree stump.

I also made another post for the property name sign that I painted with the nuvo crystal drops and hung a sign with the name 'Coolibah"

I them hot glued them together and added some plant life to the bottom to hide the hot glue.

I think that together the two pieces are just so much fun and I am really enjoying them in my craft room. 

Thanks so much for having a look at my project and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can take a quick look at a short video showing this project HERE.
You can get the kit from Aunty Vera HERE.

Thanks and bye for now
Suzanne xoxo