overview
Mama Heart Shadow Box
Updated: August 22, 2025
With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make a gorgeous Shadow Box by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills. In this opportunity the theme is Mama (Mother) and you can change the design to match any occasion.
Difficulty: intermediate
Design: ~25 minutes
Assembly: ~100 minutes
Cutting: ~20 minutes
Material Cost: ~$25
Final Size: 9” x 7” shadow Box
Skills
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following functionalities:
- Slice Images/shapes
- Search Images
- Add Shapes and Images
- Upload Images
- Resize Elements
- Add Text and Change Fonts
- Delete Elements
- Create an Offset
- Attach Elements
- Change colors
- Weld Elements
materials
- Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
- Shadow box ($8.99)
- Glue ($19.99)
- Permanent Vinyl in Black ($ 9.99)
- Transfer tape ($15.99)
- Cardstock 65 lb ($22.28)
- 1 Sheet Pink 12” x 12”
- 1 Sheet Purple 12” x 12”
- 1 Sheet Gray 12” x 12”
- 2 Sheet Light Blue / Aqua 12” x 12”
- Optional: Ink ($11.99)
- Optional: Cricut Scraper ($5.49)