overview
Valentine’s Box
Updated: September 17, 2025
With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make a Cardstock Shadow Box that you can create for any special occasion, like birthday’s, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc.
The Shadow boxes are created by layering several sheets with different designs between each other, that when you put them all together generates a 3D design with perspective.
You can also re-use the frame for your different shadow projects!
Difficulty: intermediate
Design: ~40 minutes
Assembly: ~20 minutes
Cutting: ~15 minutes
Material Cost: ~$15
Final Size: 8" x 8"
Skills
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following cricut functionalities:
- Size Images and Shapes.
- How to add the mat to the machine and proceed with the cuts..
- How to use the weeding tool.
- How to use Text and change font
- How to Weld Images
- How to slice images
materials
- Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
- StandardGrip cutting mat ($21)
- Weeding tool ($15)
- Glue
- 10 sheets of 8 x 11 Cardstock Pink or any high quality (at least 90 gr) in the color of your choice.
- We used 6 different colors.
- White Cardstock 12 x 12 or any other color of your choice.
- Foam Dots
- Shadow Frame