I found this cool craft on one of my craft blogs and I wanted to do it but I didn’t have a tin.
A few days later, I was digging around in my car for some hand lotion and I found an old round Altoid’s Tin. It was almost as good as Christmas.
I immediately set out to refashion a tin. Eli helped me pick the paper for it and we had to make a special trip to Hobby Lobby to get Modge Podge. I know, I can’t believe I didn’t have any either.
Here are the results:
Liza says, “Buh-fly!”
I made it without the Aleene’s Paper Glaze because I couldn’t find any at the stores here in town. I wish I’d had it because I think it would have gotten rid of the tacky feeling of the modge podge.
Anyway, it’s been sitting on my desk a couple of days and I’ve been enjoying it but I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. Today I got a note from a friend who has recently moved to Colorado. I decided to send it to her. I have loaded it up with some fun goodies and I’ll put it in the mail next week. Here’s what all fit in the tin:
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Nice. I love these tins as random object holders (screws, electronic components, paper clips).
siliconchef: if you have some spare ones hanging around, I’d love to have them. You might even get one back remade and I’ll even try to keep it manly for you.
Oh My! that is just the cutest…I adore the little turtle! Thank you SO much for sharing!!!! =)
Thanks, Stephanie! I loved the one you did!
How well would this work on non-tin boxes? I’ve a bunch of wooden boxes from Home Depot (the ones the gift cards come in) and I am wondering if that would work.
I bet it would work on wooden boxes. I have a couple of larger wooden boxes (a hat box and a wine box) that I’ve planned on someday doing similar to those.
Misty, I’ll look around and see if I have some floating around. I should have some Altoid tins if nothing else….
Looks like a lot of fun… even for we poor childless souls!
Hmmm… containers decorated for storing & identifying other crafting odds’n'ends could lend an element of fun to the party.
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