Retro Valentine Altoid Tin

Happy Tuesday, peeps! For a while, I have been wanting to make one of these little altered Altoid tins with a Valentine theme and I finally got some time to do it!  All the images were digital, mostly from the Graphics Fairy and the Old Design Shop websites.  They were printed out in multiples on white cardstock, then trimmed, fussy-cut and layered.  I added some older printed papers from my stash as backgrounds, along with a few other embellishments!  Here we go:

I know I have a red tin in my stash but I was too lazy to dig it out, so I went with a blue one since this little pair seemed to go very nicely with it!  If you're of a "certain age", these Valentine figures will bring back fond memories!  The back of the tin was embellished with some gems and a couple of Tim Holtz stickers:

The inside; again, images were trimmed, fussy-cut and popped up:

I ran a strip of Sticky Strip around the outer edge and added some Classic Weave ribbon and adhered the bow with some more Sticky Strip:

Hope you enjoyed this walk down memory lane!   Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Happy Birthday, Gail!

Happy Monday everyone!  Today is my sister Gail’s birthday (yes, December is a busy birthday month for us!) and she is one of my biggest fans; she loves my paper crafts, loves to shop yard sales,  and is a great encourager!  She flew up from South Carolina for my birthday this summer and helped tremendously!  She is a lot of fun to be around too!

She loves vintage stuff too so I made her another altered Altoid tin for her birthday:

Here’s the back:

And the inside:

Santa has several layers, and lots of sparkle and glitter; his “snow” is a piece of quilt batting covered with vintage glitter:

And the other side is also layered and glittered:

All the images were from Crafty Secret’s Retro Christmas CD, except for the back sticker, which I think was from Melissa Frances.  As always, I had a blast creating it and I hope she likes it!  If you have any questions, shoot me an email!

Yesterday afternoon my daughter’s half-brother and his girlfriend came for a visit; he travels a lot and lives in FL, and we don’t see him much, so this was a real treat for us!  He held up well, playing with Cassidy, helping her make sand art and just being a great uncle!

Enjoy your day!

St Patrick’s Day Projects

Phew, happy Friday, everyone!  This week needs to be OVER!  I am looking forward to some warmer temps this weekend!  Since my sister already received her little St Pat’s gift, I can share it with you now:

This is another little altered Altoids tin, decorated with some vintage St Pat’s images I gathered from around blogland!  I have to admit that the inside of this one is not as well-done as I would have liked.  I need to color the edge of my cut images so they don’t show white; I really dislike that and I didn’t realize how bad it looked until I saw the photos.  Better next time!  Anyway, here is the inside:

I used some generic DP I had in my stash for the backgrounds, along with some green clover metallic decorations I had hanging around.  Since I had a dearth of St Patrick’s Day sentiments, I was wondering what to do….then I remembered I had a nice set on My Digital Studio, so I printed a few out and added them to the inside!  I had so much fun with them, I did a miniature collage and printed that out for the back of the tin:

I added some gold hearts and green rhinestones, just for fun, as well as overstamped it with the Linen background stamp (ret), just to give it some texture.  Then, I added a few more sentiments and enlarged it, printing it out on a standard piece of cardstock, and made a little collage poster to hang on my wall (well, it’s not hung, it’s actually tacked up with a couple of cheapie thumb tacks I had hanging around!!!):

DH actually commented on this….and he never notices ANYTHING like this!  I haven’t used MDS for a while, so it was fun to play around!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy:  “DON’T TAKE MY PICTURE, GRAMMY!”

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!  I hope you all will have time to spend with your sweeties, whether they be family or friends!  This is the card I made for DH:

I let this MME Heirloom paper do most of the work; I did add some hearts at the top and a little resin doodad from SU, which qualifies it for Linda’s Catered Crop Heart of the Matter Quickfire challenge!  Aren't these florals beautiful?

I usually give DH a card with a boat or something on it, but this year, he’s getting a romantic one, LOL!   And now that my sister has received her little Valentine package, I can share what I made for her:

This is a little Altoids tin I have had kicking around…it’s a bit scruffy on the outside, but that just adds to the vintage charm!  I used some Valentine images I found on the web and layered them with some hearts & stuff!  The little girl’s got some glitter on her coat, and the little pup has a heart in his mouth:

I didn’t do a whole lot of embellishing on these, but I still think they’re cute!  And here’s the outside:

And here’s my own little Valentine:

and one for you, all my sweet blog readers, this time from MY era!!!

Have a sweet day!

ColourQ226

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Wow, this month is almost over…how can that be?  Arielle is ending January with a beauty of a challenge today:

And with apologies to my SIL (sorry, Louise), who despises buttons, I chose to make an art piece rather than a card today!  I had a plethora of pink buttons and a premade burlap-covered frame:

so I simply cut out a white felt heart using SU’s Heart Framelits, then just hot glued all the buttons on….you may still see some of those pesky hot-glue threads, LOL!  I added three little love sentiments from the Expressions Thinlits in Primrose Petals, Blush Blossom and Pink Pirouette:

And finally, to finish it off, I attached some beautiful (retired) pleated ribbon in Blush Blossom on the sides:

And it looks “lovely” hanging on my craft room wall!  Now, what can you create with these soft beautiful colors of love?  I hope you will play along and share your creation with us at the ColourQ blog!  Can’t wait to see them!

John is working on the inside of his new garage, putting up insulation.  The mountains of them were too enticing for Cassidy not to play on!!!  Of course, it’s still about 25 degrees inside….brrrrrr!

Enjoy your day!

Vintage Vignette

I have been in crafting heaven here the last couple of days (but my craft room is a disaster!!!)!  I saw these adorable altered Altoids tins on Cathe Holden’s blog, Just Something I Made, and wanted to recreate one for a gift exchange.  Actually, the blog post was about making your own bottle brush trees, which really excited me, but that will have to wait a while!  Anyway, here is my first attempt:

My vintage “stash” grows larger & larger, so I thought I had better try to use some of it!  The lid features an old postcard I printed on the computer, which I glittered up with some “snow” and a little snowflake:

This side features a background of some music paper from a little Melissa Frances 6x6 pad, a deer from a Crafty Secrets journaling pad, and a little tree from a craft store:

I added some batting for snow, glittered it all up, then made a banner using a Sweet & Sassy Christmas sentiment and anchored it with a SU star punched from gold glimmer paper.

Here are the front & back….I just LOVE the collage effect on the back!  The words were stamped in Basic Gray and Smoky Slate, and I just looked through all my Christmas sets and mixed them all up!

I covered the side with a piece of washi tape I got last Christmas….it covers it nicely without adding the bulk of ribbon.

I have another vintage project I’ll share later!

Unlike some parts of the country which are suffering through really cold temps, it was overcast but fairly mild here yesterday and we took a long walk down a back road; there used to be a bridge you could drive over, but the township closed it and it is open to foot traffic only.  Cassidy is all about water, rocks and bridges, so she enjoyed it!

It would be pretty with snow, but too warm for that!

Enjoy your day!