Nature ......

This time an altered mint tin ......

The tin was prepared on the outside by rubbing down with fine glassaper and giving a couple of coats of white gesso. The inside was coated with Alcohol ink to provide a shiny green finish.

The outside was then spattered with a sponge and acrylic paints in green & cream acrylic paints and allowed to dry.

I then stamped a number of ivy leaves on tissue and tore these out. They were then applied with matt medium to the front and back of the tin and allowed to dry completely.

Some die-cut leaves were added along with the stamped words.

I then applied iridescent clear bugle beads around the rim of the time with more gel medium.

 

I decorated the inside front of the tin with Angelina fibres, a piece of faux dichroic glass, die-cut leaf  and some adhesive gems.

I added some green micro-balls around the inside back of the tin with Glossy Accents and embellished with a number of die-cut leaves added on gel medium for relief. Some green adhesive gems were added too. The words were stamped, matted on some of the two tone mirror card and applied as shown ....

The back of the tin was embellished with some die-cuts to finish .....

Sid xx

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Altered ......

We are running a Challenge on UK Stampers Forum until 5th April ..... we are to make an altered Fish/Mint Tin for the chance of winning some fab stamps from 'That's Crafty' ....

I used an empty sardine can which was washed thoroughly, dried and coated with a couple of coats of white gesso to prepare.

I used a set of Papertrey Ink stamps featuring a theme of 'Buttons' and stamped the button card, words and buttons in Versafine black and Versafine Clair colours. I trimmed out all elements and drew in threads on the buttons, applying Glossy Accents to a couple of the buttons.

The button card was embellished with buttons stuck in place with more Glossy Accents.

I lined the inside edge of the tin with Washi tape and cut a panel to fit the inside base from pink spotty paper.... sticking this in place. The outside of the tin was covered in two pieces of Washi tape and the rim coloured with Gold Krylon pen.

The tin was then decorated with the button card on foam pads, a mini pink satin ribbon, some card-candi, the front word panel (with the addition of pink Posca pen) and a number of the stamped buttons. The inside lip of the tin was decorated with more dots of pink Posc pen and fruit punch Stickles Glitter glue.

Sid xx

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