BIRTHDAY CARD AND ALTERED TIN!

Happy Friday everyone!

I hope you have exciting plans for Superbowl weekend.  Today I am posting a birthday card and an altered Valentine's Day tin.

I needed a masculine birthday card.  I am not typically drawn to making those.  They tend to be less exciting for me to make.  I started rummaging through my stash an found this beautiful map paper.  I just started putting things together and came up with this.  What do you guys think?

I used brown cardstock for the base.  The map paper (from M's) as the top layer and a strip of paper from my scraps.  I cut the globe from Graphically Speaking.  I embellished with ribbon, bling, a brad and inked all of the edges of the paper with Tim Holtz Distressed Tea Dye ink.  I also distressed the map paper a little bit.  Then I stamped Happy Birthday with a stamp from a Stampology set I have.

THINGS YOU LEARN WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR FIRST ALTERED TIN!

The next photos are of a tin that I altered to give my 13 yr. old DD for Valentine's Day.  Her favorite color is turquoise so I decided to use these bright papers that I got in a kit.  I covered the tin with the turquoise paper (and ran into a problem.)  My 12X12 paper wouldn't fit all the way around the tin.  Now, since this is the first tin I have altered, I didn't think about the diameter......Silly me!  So I went ahead and covered it, and added cute strips of paper at the top and bottom.  Now I was left with a gap where the red from the tin was showing through.  So, out of sheer frustration, and lack of any creative solution I just cut another strip of coordinating paper and added that on.

 I used coordinating stickers to decorate it.  I decorated the top with chipboard Valentine's Day stickers.  Then I cut strips of red paper and ran them through my crimper and put them inside the tin.  I took a deep sigh of relief that the project was done......UNTIL....I went to put the lid on!  Because I added the paper all the way to the top, the lid won't fit on properly without ripping the paper.  So, I just decided that she will have to deal with a lopsided lid.  Since I am filling it up with some candy and MAC makeup, I don't think that she will really care if the lid doesn't fit...  So the lessons that I learned from this project are:

Make sure you either buy a tin that will fit the paper you want to use...or buy paper to fit your tin.
Do not cover your tin all the way to the top.  If you do, your lid won't fit.
I need a bendable ruler.
I need more patience.
If I can't find more patience, I may need to invest in a blender to make margarita's.

Here are the pics.....finally.  If anyone has any suggestions for next time...PLEASE share.  As always, thanks for taking the time to look.  Your comments are always welcome.

Robyn