Altered Tin

 

Altered Tin

This tin was originally a black velvet covered jewellery box with silk lining Not a vintage tin or anything fancy! You probably have one of these at home collecting dust...and boy do they collect dust!

When I took the material off there was a lovely smooth tin just right to glue onto. Lucky me!

Ingredients...

Small book (op shop find)

Key (op shop find)

Small piece cut from crochet doily, button attached to make a flower (op shop find)

Lace doily (you guessed it....op shop find!)

Scrap cloth dyed with coffee

Duck feathers.  

PVA glue.

I was really happy with the sweet tin and the way it nestled on the page with the other elements. (See below)

See the other Sweet Sunday posts here. Tin also posted on Pinterest.

Guest Heart Thursday...remembering the love.

When I saw the meme for Guest Heart Thursday I immediately thought of the hearts I made for an altered book collaboration. It was so lovely to go back to some of my old posts see them again so I thought I would show a few here for the meme.

 At the time one of my art goals was to make some of my own beads. There are a few home made paper ones in the photo above but mostly they are salvaged from old necklaces and op shops. I made the ones below from a product similar to fimo. I was making balls but got bored and made hearts...I am glad I did!

 Some of these beads are still sitting unused in my bead box but pictured below is a heart that did get put to good use...

The heart was a perfect handmade, thrifty embellishment to add to the book page. Actually, as it turns out so did a lot of other hearts! Click this link to see them.

May your nest be blessed,

Lisa