A Personal Challenge

I have just joined a wonderful on-line craft group called 'Creativity Venture' set up and run by the lovely Sandra.  Now Sandra has put lots of work into the challenges to make us think 'outside the box'.  She collected personal information from each of us at the start.

So my personal challenge for this month was to take inspiration from the above tin which she sourced from ellenskaartjes.blogspot.com, do my own rendition and add as much of my own style into the piece as I wanted.

So off tin hunting I went and found this;

a mini whisky tin

and the inside.  It's quite a nice size and quite deep.

So I set to work collecting a few pieces, stamping some images.  The background is a piece of kraft resist from T!m's stack covered with picket fence distress stain.  The stamped images are from TH plates, the cogs are from the movers and shapers mini gears die and the arrows are from a cuttlebug die.

Once I'd placed them where I wanted them I put them all at different levels as you can see in the above photo to give some dimension.

This piece is going to make the inside of the lid, using some T!m papers, his cogs and stamp!!  I used the metallic distress stains on the cog and around the words.

Then I started working on the front (ie the lid) and this is where I took inspiration from the photo I'd been sent using the lacing and the torn and curled edges.  Again everything on the lid is from the T!m collection including the tissue tape around the edges.

So these are the pieces from earlier, now housed inside the tin and the bottom of the tin around the sides has been edged with card.  I haven't done anything with the inside edges of the lid, else it won't close properly!!!

And finally the outside edge looked a bit plain and boring as the paper I'd used only had very faint text script on and not all the way around, so I stuck on a strip of burplap.

Thanks once again to the Creativity Venture group and Sandra for challenging me - hope I've come up to scratch!!!

I also want to enter this piece into the Out of a Hat Creations challenge.  This week they have a bingo card and you have to pick a line.  Each of the lines includes a hat, still in keeping with the hatters tea party theme.  Can you guess which line I've used?

Altered Tin

The theme over at PanPastelUk this week is 'altered/recycled item'.  The only stipulation is that your project must be a genuine alteration or recycled item.  So I chose a mini cigar tin to alter.

This is the outside opened up.

And this is the inside opened up.

So I had a play with my new Fresco chalk paints (from Paperartsy) and they are fabulous, they blend together so well.  I firstly painted the tin in white gesso and then used the yellow, green and brown out the set I purchased at the GNPE at Harrogate.  I used my new Stampotique splatter stamp with timber brown Stazon.  The circles were created using a pop bottle lid and the brown paint.

And for the inside I used a sheet of card from another GNPE purchase, the old world mat stack pad (DCWV).  I stamped the splatters, again in timber brown Stazon, directly onto the patterned card.  I stamped the Stampotique 'whatever..'  onto a separate piece of the same card and edged it in timber brown Stazon.  I stamped the mushrooms and monster key keeper onto white card, coloured them with the Fresco chalk paints, cut them out and stuck them onto the background papers in the tin.  I cut the smallest mushroom off the group and stuck it on the other side of the tin as the monster was hiding it.

This is my altered cigar tin for this weeks PanPastelUk challenge.