David and I are loving our e-bikes and spend hours on beautiful days exploring the hilly and forested terrain of Connecticut. I have been thinking about shadow boxes that feature the experience of riding but not just e-bikes - any type of bike and from that idea grew my new Easy Rider Shadow box series.
My first design was created from tracing photographs of David and myself on our e-bikes. We took the photos and I imported them into Illustrator. I traced the outlines carefully and used that tracing to create the silhouettes. Even though they lack detail the clearly look like us. I used a print and cut technique to get the spokes on the bicycles but this was convoluted and difficult. In the final design I went for simplified wheels to avoid the need for print and cut techniques.
I then continued with this concept to make a file that allowed the crafter to insert any of 4 different riders into the scene. The download comes with a male cyclist, a female cyclist, a singly guy on a motorcycle and a couple on a motorcycle all cruising through the mountains.
The download includes all four riders and and the individual layer 1 needed for each. You can easily swap in the rider you want to make.
The file is designed to go in a 12 x 12” shadow box ( I use the Studio Decor two pack from Michaels- Watch for sales). If you have a smaller 8 x8 or 9x9 shadow box you can mount it without the mat for a different effect. I preferred the space with the broad mat in the larger frame.
The download file is here. It is $4.59 for all four files together.
The online tutorial is here complete with a video showing the easy assembly process.