Keep Calm and Give Love - V for Vendetta, In Case of Revolution Gift

Day 9: Photo challenge: Gratitude (Day 8 was organization and not that interesting on my part)

"For the second year now, my group of friends have gotten together to exchange Secret Santa gifts. We take time out of our busy schedules to get together and appreciate each other's company. Our celebration was full of laughs and inside jokes."

There's also a craft How-To along with this topic!

I was the Secret Santa for my friend who loves V for Vendetta. I was browsing wanelo and came across this V for Vendetta mask in a shadow box with the words "In case of Revolution, Break Glass" being sold on etsy (the artist did a great job, but was asking $20 without shipping). I've never bought anything on etsy because if someone else can make it - I can too! Picture of my version of the gift below:

So I got work trying to find all the supplies I needed.

I hit up my favorite store: Michael's <3 and got a shadow box and white vinyl letter stickers. I ordered the mask off Amazon. All this came out to about $11!

The directions after that are pretty simple.
1) I put the mask in the shadow box, but the V mask has such a big schnozz that this happened:

Ruh roh! That shadow box is NOT closing. I tried cutting the edges of the mask and squishing the mask to fit in the shadow box, but all that did was distort the mask so that it looked like a really creepy clown.
I ended up taking the hard backing out of the shadow box and created a "soft" backing made out of felt - just enough so that the mask wouldn't fall out. I secured the mask to the felt with bobby pins. This way the mask would fit without being squished, but the back was now all bumpy and wasn't hangable anymore.

If you wanna do this project, which is super simple and not that time consuming, MAKE SURE YOU GET A SHADOW BOX THAT'S BIG ENOUGH! and don't make my mistake.

Have fun! And remember remember the fifth of November.