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Celestial sun and moon SVG file to make a beautiful shadow box perfect for a mystical style or it would even look fantastic on a nursery wall with its peaceful vibe...
Get the celestial shadow box template from my store here...
Celestial shadow box digital template with sun, moon and stars design
Ideal for Cricut and similar cutting machines or hand-cut papercutting projects
SVG, DXF, EPS and PNG file formats
For personal use & small-business commercial use
For physical/craft products only - no digital products, use, or sharing
After making my recent celestial sun-face card template (here) I decided to use my sun and moon SVGs to create a celestial shadow box template for you. It was a spur of the moment, thing, but I ended up loving this far more than I even expected to!
Here I show you how to make it. Don't worry, it's super easy with just four layers so it's also really quick to make and would make an amazing gift that could suit almost any occasion.
About the celestial sun and moon icons
The sun and moon icons with the face as we see here date from the medieval period in Western culture and became popular during the Renaissance era as people become more interested in the sky and its celestial bodies. Celestial just means 'of the sky'. The sun with a face was also used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, Ancient Egyptians, and Aztec culture as well as indigenous American peoples.
The meaning of the symbols are to do with duality (like the black and white of the yin and yang). The sun is often seen to represent the masculine, life, vitality, passion, strength, heat, joy, while the moon symbolizes the feminine, peace, night, gentleness, coolness - the other side of life - we need both for our lives to keep turning.
The moon and sun symbols also represent the passing of time - demonstrated by the journey of the celestial bodies (sun, moon & stars) across the night sky.
So the image of the moon embracing the sun is about our lives - the dark together the light, the passion, joy, gentleness, peacefulness, both masculine and feminine, and the turn of the seasons and the passing of time.
What you'll need:
Choosing Colours
The colours in my shadow box template are the white version (above) but I also made an alternative version to inspire you to get creative and give you an alternative vision for your project. I can't actually decide which one I like best, can you..?
You're free to choose whichever colours you like for your project, of course, but here are some tips that I discovered when I was selecting colours...
I used the very dark grey Sizzix cardstock for the background of each as it's got a lovely blue tone to the grey which I think works really well for the night sky - a dark blue, rich royal blue or night-black could also work well.
I think the top layer with the moon and sun needs to be a fairly pale colour, either white, cream or yellow - you could also possibly go pink, peach, or pale blue or green.
It's actually the next layer that you need to take the most care with - the one that shows through as the detail for the moon and sun faces. This layer needs to have enough contrast so that the designs shows through well - this is easy if you're using white for the top layer, but if you're opting for a brighter yellow as the top layer, choose something fairly dark - I've gone for a brown, as you can see below...
The very bottom layer is actually the layer for the stars so it's likely you'll want these kind of star-coloured - I suggest a white, cream, or yellow colour. I think it's nice to have these a slightly different colour than the moon and sun so that they're decidedly part of the background of the design rather than competing with the main elements (the sun and moon).
I hope that gives you some ideas. If you've chosen your colours, we can get started with the project below...
You can print these instructions to help you if you wish - the print button is just below and you can also find print buttons on the top right on the webpage and towards the bottom of the page, below the instructions.
First resize the design to fit your chosen frame - I created the celestial sun and moon SVG template to fit my 20 x 20cm (8 x 8 inch) shadow box frame.
Please measure your own frame before you start and if necessary resize the template using your chosen cutting machine program so that it fits nicely inside your own frame.P
If you need help with accessing, downloading or opening your file, you can find that here... I also have some basic help for using your Cricut here!
When you've got all four layers cut and ready to go, we can get started - see the image just below...
Now, the only thing left to do is to put your celestial sun and moon shadow box project nicely into its frame. See mine in the photo below...
And here's what the alternative version I made looks like (below)...
If you like this project, you can get my celestial sun and moon SVG, DXF, EPS and PNG shadow box template from my store at the link just below...
Get the sun & moon shadow box template from my store here...
Digital download for Cricut and similar cutting machines or to paper cut by hand
SVG, DXF, EPS & PNG file formats all included
For personal crafting and small business commercial use (up to 200 products)
For physical (craft) products only - no digital products, use, or sharing
If you enjoy making shadow boxes, take a look at more of my shadow box designs on this page...
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Why not also make my sun-face card template? Fantastic to accompany the shadow box if you're making it as a gift - take a look here...
I also have the individual celestial sun and moon SVG files (as a bundle of 2) if you want to make more projects with these symbols. You can see them here...
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