Altered Mint Tin - Inchies

Hi there here is my tin at last !! Got bogged down with other things unfortunately.

Lighting was difficult so the shots are not A1. Will attempt to do more and replace with better pics ASAP.

Altered Mint Tin

Here is my altered mint tin, inside and out! I loved doing this, and the tissue stamping technique went really well with this stamp (it's from a grab bag off eBay!) I used my ancient watercolour crayons for the first time in years! I'm not too happy about the bottom inside - I poured the glossy accents in with a far too heavy hand! It's really thick and took days to dry! It looks even worse in the photo becasue of the glare. One thing I would do differently is not paint right up to the top of the sides, my tin does not shut now!

I finally got round to posting a piccie of my Altered Mint Tin! Unfortunately I have not managed to decorate the inside yet, but the outside is done! I included the tissue paper technique on the top and it seems to have worked quite well. The stamps were from Paper Artsy, the paints were from Ranger and I used a combo of Staz-On, Marvy dye pens and Watercolour pencils to colour the images in.

Yes, it really is that bright in real life! You need your sunglasses! :o)

Mint Tin

This is the top & bottom of my tin. My first attempt at using tissue & decorating a tin.

Altered Tin Class

did my own simple variation of this class - have never used Modge Podge before and now I'm in lurve!!! These are for my Inchies on UKS and UKStampers (used Flo's wonderful header but it doesn't show up too well).


The insides are a bit naff - poured in glossy accents and THEN decided to move to a level place, beads went all over the place! Just used PVA in the other one.

I'm covered in ink, paint and gluey stuff - wonderful!!! Great class, thank you x

Altered Tins

I made 2 of these, one for inchies and the other because I liked the tin (^_^). Great class too.

Thanks Kym for a great class. It was interesting starting a project not knowing where it was going! I started off by going with Flo's fab new header colours as it's for UKS's birthday, which led to a bright theme! I forgot to paint the inside of the tin, so splodged alcohol inks on instead! It took me so long to cut out all the flowers I didn't have time to do any other projects, so shall do them next week!

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 6

On the top of the lid I added more stamped/coloured images and a Hero Arts Dictionary Definition.

Then around the outside edge of the lid, I ran a bead of Glossy Accents and then applied some of the Art Insitute Glass Glitter.

I have got to finish off the whole thing by giving it a coat of acrylic sealer for toughness, but thought I would wait til I could leave it to cure after this class was done.

Hope you all had fun, and I can't wait to see your finished tins.

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 5

Now turn your attention to the inside of the lid.

I stamped out the relevant letters to spell "MY INCHIES", and one flower and leaf on tissue, coloured them in and then collaged them on with Golden Gel.

I then applied a layer of Glossy Accents - make sure you don't take the Glossy Accents all the way to the edge, otherwise the lid won't shut.

Tip: make sure you actually have all the letters - as you can see from my example, I'd forgotten an "h" along the way, and had to squeeze it in. Wasn't too much of a problem as it happens, as I stamped on top of the Glossy Accents with Staz-on!

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 4

this is the view of the inside bottom of the tin, once I've added the beading of micro beads around the edge, and collaged on my Hero Arts Dictionary Definition, and stamped floral images.

I've then covered the whole thing with a layer of Glossy Accents.

TIP: make sure you stand it on a level surface, otherwise there is a landslide to one side - again talking from personal experience!

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 3 and a bit

using your Lyra Watercolour crays and Aquaflo brush colour in the flowers.

Try not to use too much water, and it's a good idea to give the tissue a quick blast with a heat gun to dry.

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 3

stamp the floral images on tissue paper with StazOn.

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 2

this is after I've sponged on several layers of acrylic paint to the tin, but before the gold acrylic went over the top.

Quite honestly, once the gold goes on it brings the whole thing together, but I have to confess that I'd forgotten to take a picture of that bit!

Altered Mint Tin - Stage 1

Once you've sanded, gesso'd your tin. Start sponging on acrylic paint in different colours.