Altered tin

I had one of these tins from Princess Auto that I hadn't altered yet, and felt it had come time to do something about it. Nice paper eh?? I thought it would be great to give someone with a nice chocolate treat inside :)!! I wanted to put a message on the little stamped message note, but I didn't know what to put...any ideas??






RECIPE





Cardstock





Provocraft's "Little Princess Heart's" patterned paper by Jeff Goodsell from Michael's, white cardstock, and pink weave cardstock from Carousel.

Ink

Black Brilliance ink, and Pixie dust dew drop ink pad

Other

Super Tacky tape, mini pop up dots

Altered tins

For this tin, I used a piece of the patterned paper from the huge slab of Christmas paper that you can get at Michael's. I measured the paper so it was a bit smaller than what I would usually do, but I did this so that it would fit better

!! On the first two tins that I made I didn't do that, and I wish that I did because it would have saved me a lot of problems. The other thing I noticed was that the paper from SU "Wintergreen" collection wasn't cut square when it was being made. It was slightly off, so when I measured and cut out my 2 pieces out (for my first 2 tins) they went on straight to start but became wonky as I went along.

Once I attached my patterned paper onto my tin using the super tacky tape, I measured and cut out another strip of the patterned paper and then I attached it to the lid of the tin. Next, I stamped the Jolie's Fleurs large flower onto a white piece of cardstock and then I colored in the flower with my Tombow markers. I might add some ribbon, and a tag but I haven't decided yet!! I also filled this tin with some Christmas M&M's :)!

I recommend that you use a really good scrub brush on the inside before you alter the tin, because it has a indentation on the inside that has some grime that needs to be scraped out with lots of elbow grease.