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Altered Vintage Altoid Tin

By: Brandi Powell
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team Designer 

Supplies:

•    Hollywood Divas Rubber Stamps (Art by Moonlight)
•    Ink Pads:  Vineyard Berry (CTMH)
•    Ivory Cardstock (Stampin' UP!)
•    Background Papers (Hot Off the Press)
•    Postage Stickers (Hobby Lobby)
•    Buttons (JoAnns)
•    Lace (JoAnns)
•    2 Small Ephemera Labels
•    Spray Adhesive
•    Twill Tape w/words
•    1 Die
•    Lacquer Thinner
•    Pop Dots
•    Spray Fixative

Instructions:

1.                Apply Lacquer Thinner with paper towel or cotton ball to remove paint in the areas you would like it removed. I removed only the paint on the back and sides for this piece as I wanted to keep the front to show off the vintage image.

2.                Starting with the front, tear burgundy background paper to silhouette pre-printed tin image.  If you don’t have a pre-printed tin – stamp an image or use a collage sheet image and adhere that first, then the paper around that.

3.                Adhere postal stickers and twill tape around the woman image for decoration.  Apply button toward the top, next to the twill tape with a pop-dot.

4.                Stamp 3 woman images from the ABM Hollywood Divas set in vineyard berry ink on ivory cardstock. Trim around each one.  Set aside.

5.                Trim two pieces of Ivory cardstock that will fit inside the left and right of the tin. 

6.                Collage various background papers on each of the Ivory panels you just cut out.  In this case, I used burgundy music print and ivory word print cardstock.

7.                Starting on the left, adhere ephemera label to upper left side. Adhere woman on top of that on upper left.  Apply twill word tape at the botton.  Adhere button with pop-dot over lower right corner of woman.  Adhere all of this using double sided tape to the left inside of the tin.

8.                Now on the right panel, adhere lace at top of panel.  Then adhere ephemera label in center covering the lace just slightly.  Adhere one pre-cut women to bottom right and one to upper left.  Adhere button to upper right.  Adhere small piece of twill tape to lower left.  Adhere die at bottom right.

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