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How to create spacers and assemble a light up paper shadow box in a frame


In this tutorial I take through the steps to create foam board spacers and how to assemble them together with micro LEDs to create a light up shadow box.


To create the spacers you’ll need:

3mm foam board (5 x A4 sheets for this example)

A pencil

A sturdy ruler (metal is best)

A craft knife

A cutting mat


To assemble the final shadow box you’ll need:

A shadow box frame

The spacers you’ve created

Micro LED ‘rice’ string lights

Shadow box paper layers


We’ll be using the snowman shadow box paper layers that we created in my previous video