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Altered Altoids Tin-Keepsake Box Ornament
Becky Lemire
Off-Road Inksters
Intermediate Scramping Designer
For Christmas one year, my grandma gave me a cute little tin.
Inside, was a note written in her wonderful handwriting and a beautiful heirloom
necklace that my grandpa had given her long ago. I was looking at this Altoids
Tin sitting in my craft room and thought it could make a cute little memorabilia
box or ornament. I thought a little keepsake could go inside this box and a
photo of the person the keepsake came from could be adhered to the inside of the
lid.
Supplies:
Flourishes rubber stamp set (The Angel Co.)
Merry Christmas saying - retired (The Angel Co.)
Green Ivy Brilliance Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Altoids Chewing Gum Tin (emptied and cleaned)
Green Bitty Blossoms silk flower (Bazzill)
Red Wool Felt (Jo-Anne's)
Green Wool Felt (Jo-Anne’s)
Flower Trio Punch (Stampin’ Up!)
3/8" Dark Green Grosgrain Ribbon (Offray)
1/4" Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon (Stampin’ Up!)
Green Ruffled Ribbon (Michael's)
Light Green Mulberry Paper (unknown)
Yellow mini brads (All My Memories)
Crop-A-Dile (We R Memory Keepers)
Gold Fabric Glitter Glue (Duncan)
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Instructions:
1. If you want to make this box an
ornament, remove the lid and punch two holes in the back side of the box (not
the lid). Reassemble the box and tie a ribbon through the holes to make the
ornament hanger.
2. Cut some red felt to fit the top of the lid of the box and another piece for
the inside bottom of the box. Adhere using tacky glue. Cut a piece of the
mulberry paper to fit the inside of the lid. You could use felt, also, if
desired.
3. Cut a piece of the Celery ribbon to about 10˝". Stamp saying onto the ribbon
using the Green Brilliance ink. Adhere this ribbon around the edge of the lid
and trim length to fit.
4. Adhere a piece of the ruffled ribbon around the sides of the base of the box.
5. Stamp a flourish image onto the green silk flower using the Green Brilliance
ink.
6. If you have a sharp punch, cutting through felt will not be a problem. Mine
wasn't very sharp, but it still cut through for the most part and I only had to
trim a little bit of the fuzzies that were left. Punch three flowers from the
red felt and three flowers from the green felt. Poke holes in the center of the
flowers. Layer a red flower onto a green flower and attach using a yellow brad.
7. Adhere the larger green stamped flower to the top left side of the lid.
Adhere two felt flowers on top of that. Adhere the last felt flower to the right
side of the box lid. See photo for placement.
8. Using the gold fabric glitter glue, make some designs/vines freehand on the
lid. Add a little glitter glue to the tops of the yellow brads as well. Let dry
thoroughly.
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