Hi crafty people! I have a long tutorial post, so you might want to make a snack and a cup of tea, or pour a glass of wine before sitting down to view this. I have made a Valentine gift for my children's teachers using empty Altoids tins, as well as an ATC using the same materials. The tin qualifies for
Simon Says Stamp and Show's recipe challenge of "torn edges, distress ink, a button, and wings", and the ATC is for
Grungy Monday's challenge of "an ATC
Tim style". There is a whole lot of texture going on, so the tin will also be entered in the
Stamp Man's "texture" challenge.
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| I gave the empty tins a couple of coats of red spray paint. Addicting!!! I wanted to paint a mural on the garage door, but the neighbors probably would hate that, and call the gang police unit to my house. |
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| When it was completely dry after 24 hours, I sanded the corners, edges, and raised areas exposing the metal underneath. Using my fingers, I rubbed Pitch Black Acrylic Paint all over the tin, and especially focused on the sanded areas and scratches. Good thing I am not a manicure type girl (pedicures yes!) because I still had mechanic looking nails after 2 days. After a few hours of drying, I coated the the whole tin with Rust Sophisticated Finishes. After a another few hours, I repeated a coat. The next day, I had nicely aged tins. |
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| Using wood grained image paper, I cut 1 inch strips and adhered them to Grunge Board using Glue N Seal. I did the same thing with 1 1/2 x 2 inch strips of button image paper. I cut each strip out and die cut the wood grain with the Mini Dress Form Die. |
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| The bodice of the dress form would not be seen, so to save materials and time, I die cut the Mini Thread Spool using the dress form. The button strips were used to die cut only the bodice area of the dress form. |
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| I trimmed the bodice and adhered it to the wooden dress form, then inked the whole thing with Fired Brick then Gathered Twigs. The spools also were inked with Gathered Twigs. |
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| I did not have wings small enough to fit the dress form, so I altered the holly leaf from the Mini Pine Tree Die Set, using Grunge Paper...perfect size!!! |
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| I painted the 'wings' gold and embossed them with the rays texture fade...it's my fav for all wings. |
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| The wings got a coat of Rock Candy Crackle and after fully dried they were ink with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink then heat embossed with UTEE. |
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| A little Inka Gold was rubbed into the wings for even more depth...love this stuff introduced to me by another blogger, but I have forgotten who...sorry (If you are out there drop me a note!). The winds were attached. |
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| Here is my new favorite thing...mini Timmy scissors and a quick tutorial to make them! I purchased these metal scissor charms on Ebay, and decided they needed to be Tonic-fied! I used alcohol ink in Red Pepper for the handle and Pitch Black for the blades. |
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| I rubbed the handle part in the Embossing Distress Ink and then stuck it in the Fired Brick Distress Embossing Powder until I was ready to heat it up. |
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| I used pliers to hold it while heating so I would not get burned. It was easy to just pluck them out of the powder, heat, and them pluck back in until the desired thickness was reached, and there was no clean up...yay!!! Mini Timmy scissors...my new obsession!!! |
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| This is a cork board I made on the Tim cruise with Wendy Vecchi in 2009. She taught us how to use patterns as collage background, which was something I had never seen before back then. I still had some scraps of the pattern pieces so I used them on the background for this project. Thank you Wendy! |
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| I cut an ATC with a die and the other rectangles were cut to fit the lid on the tins (2 x 3 1/4 in.). I coated them with Glue N Seal and then mish-mashed the pattern over it allowing for lots of wrinkles. It was easy to just tear the pattern off the edges and it left a very nice distressed border to ink up. |
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| I inked the background pieces with Gathered Twigs, clipped the corners, added some ruler pieces from Crowded Attic Salvage Stickers, and drew in a few stitches (it was too thick to machine stitch). |
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| Assembly line! Tulle, wooden button, lace, snaps, safety pins, and a computer generated and stitched sentiment was added. Fun times! |
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| The ATC |
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| The tins (turned into sewing kits for the teachers). |
Supplies:
Altoids: tins
Krylon: red spray paint
Triangle Crafts: Sophisticated Finishes Rust
Frances Meyer: Parquet Wood Paper
From My Stash: white cardstock, pattern form paper, red tulle, scissors charm, red cord, red rhinestone heart, snap, lace
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
