Industrial Tin

Look what I came across in my stash whilst looking for something else!

It measures approx 5" x 5".

I ran some sticky silver tape through an embossing folder and stuck it on the lid and sides of the tin.

Then I completely covered it in black powertex and wiped it back before it totally dried.  I used the wiped off powertex on another project.

And I did the sides as well.

I pulled out a few resin pieces and laid them out.

I coloured them with brass treasure gold and mounted them on the lid of the tin.

From a slightly different view.

I wanted to cover the label up on the back as I couldn't get it off, so I stuck an old advert over it to hide it.

And I simply cut a couple of pieces of paper to size and stuck them inside.  I did think about decorating the insides but then I wouldn't be able to put anything in there, so I just stuck with the papers.

And just to show that the lid does close.

#rusteffects #powertex #upcyclingchallenge

Altered Tin

Over on the PA blog it's a new semester, which means a new set of designers and first up is Liesbeth Fidder who altered a tin which you can see here. First thing needed was a bonfire, so off Martin went and stoked up the chimnea.

He put the cigar tin the chimnea and the burning process began.

Charring nicely!!

These are the tins after they have cooled down.

For the inside pages I burnt them with lemon juice.

Then I decorated the tin, this is the front.

The inside using the burnt lemon juice pages, LP and PA stamped images and metal embellishments.

And I wanted to keep the back quite plain to expose most of the fab colouring on the tin.

An Altered Tin

So I this is what I started off with, a cigar tin and 3 wooden spoons.  

Following Helen's technique, the guest designer over on the PaperArtsy blog, I used irish cream, cinnamon, chocolate pudding, claret and honey dew fresco paints.

I stamped a couple of the images from the Ink and the Dog, Man of Numbers plate #6.  And blanked them out with snowflake paint.

Stamped over them with black stazon.

Coloured them with south pacific and limelight fresco paints.  I did start off with guacamole but it's not a translucent one so instead of showing through the image it covered it up (you can see on the bottom two postmark stamps).

Now for the inside.  For the top of the lid I used some of the papers I got from Michael's.  Stamped the banner from the LP stamp plate #5 onto a piece of kraft card and cut it out.  The ticket is from a T!m pad I picked up from JoAnn's and added the chit chat words.

I covered the inside of the tin with another piece of paper from the same paper pack from Michael's.  I painted the wooden spoons firstly in snowflake and then brown shed and chocolate pudding.  I stamped them with the script stamp from the backgrounds plate #2 in black stazon and then coated them a couple of times in satin glaze.  Stamped the hand onto white card, the ticket onto kraft card and the heart onto metallic card.

This is the inside of both the lid and the bottom.

This project was inspired by Helen Chilton's first technique on the PaperArtsy blog and an article I read in Stampers Sampler.