Recently I participated in an altered altoid tin swap over at Unshelved Words. I was lucky to already have several tins on hand - my friends know better than to throw away "trash" without checking with me first! LOL This swap was the perfect excuse I needed to alter my first tin. I sandpapered most of the tin to get it to accept paint. Then I painted the outside bottom with metallic copper acrylic paint - when this didn't take so well, I painted it with white gesso and reapplied the copper paint. Then I covered the top with a layer of Golden Gel Medium and applied a piece of upholstery sample. When the upholstery sample did not glue as well as I would have liked, I tried to rip it off the lid and start over. The ripping revealed another layer of fabric so I frayed this layer and left some of each. Then I covered the outside of the lid with a navy ribbon. I accidentally got some paint on the ribbon when I was sprucing up the paint job. In the end, I covered the navy ribbon with naturally aged tatting and added a velvet millinery flower to the top. 
Here's what I added to the inside. I covered each section with scrapbook papers and added a pic of a little girl having a tea party with her cat and her dollies on a spring day. I added the phrase (the purpose of the assignment) "There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." On the left, I smeared some of the metal copper paint around the rim and added an old vintage button, a metal arrow and a Chinese cookie fortune that reads: "This could be the perfect day. Enjoy it." I finished the opposite side by applying a little piece of tatting I dyed green with Jacquard Dynaflow. I had originally glued this piece of the outside rim, but ripped it off because I thought the green was too bright.
What do you think??? I think its not so bad for a piece that is made almost entirely from my efforts to cover the previous mistake. Every artist's motto should be "Persevere - today's mistake could be tomorrow's treasure."
4 comments:
I really love the tin. What I want to know is where one would find such pretty fabric!
I do think some of my best discoveries have come from mistakes. I think it's good to show the process warts and all.
Congrats on your new article in HAUTE HANDBAGS.
I agree, some of the best projects or scrapbook pages in my case, come from something I messed up and had to get creative on how to fix or disguise! Love that!
You and Patti G from Patti's Creations are both so clever, I envy your creativity. If you haven't visited her sight before, you might enjoy it.
I FINALLY remembered to get curry powder today!!! I will be trying your recipe this weekend, and speaking about recipes that look, well... sound good? Check out Hunnybunny on my sight too, she has a lentil and rice with fried onions served over herb roasted tomatoes, that sounds yummy. Her picture doesn't do the recipe justice but she swears it's great.
It's pretty!!!!! Did you see the slideshow of all the tins on Marilyn's blog -- they're wonderful!! Can't wait to get mine in the mail!!!
As for mistakes...some of the best art is made when fixing a "mistake"!! That's my motto!
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