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| A dear friend just had a birthday (well, more about that later). She is always so kind and generous to me I wanted to try to do something special for her.... |
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| So, I made her an altered tin -- hers is the bottom one -- I put the altered Altoid tin in for scale. And, it's summer and I like flowers so that's the theme. |
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| The process... I found the larger tin was actually easier to work with than the Altoid tin. I used a Cavallini tin that once held stickers.... And, again I will say wallpaper works great, |
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| Here is the bottom of the tin...... |
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| And the inside (bottom) has a vintage postage from the wonderful Vintage Paper Fair... |
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| Inside of the top half with a teeny little envelope.. |
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| I cut tags with a Sizzix die cut machine using vintage postcards and added sari ribbon.. |
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| I brought a bag of rosebud tea back from Morocco and decided to add a few tiny rosebuds...they still smell good.. |
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| I thought she could put jewelry inside....or tiny treasures...or just leave it as it is. |
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| In keeping with the whole flower theme....I buy edible flowers ($2!) at the farmers market every week.....you'd be surprised how many things you can put them on....I put them on top of chilled ginger carrot soup yesterday and..... |
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| ....I put them on top of the lemon squares I made for my friend.......pretty... |
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| My sentiments exactly! Repurpose, reuse -- make things and have fun. The funny thing is (I hope she thinks it's funny) the birthday celebration was exactly one month late! I had the wrong date in my mind. That will teach me -- I have now written the correct date down for next year. I hope she had fun and liked her belated presents.... I loved that tin so I need to find another Cavallini tin and make one for myself now. SEND GOOD MAIL -- GET GOOD MAIL |
