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I Wish for a...Themed Altoid Tin - Winter

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I Wish for a...Themed Altoid Tin - Winter
Group:Mailbox Madness
Swap Coordinator:HoneyBunny (contact)
Swap categories: Themed  Crafts  Seasonal 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:Regional - USA/Canada
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:November 7, 2010
Date items must be sent by:December 4, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

I love to make altered Altoid tins and fill them full of little goodies! I hope to make this a series for each season. This is how it will work:

  • Sign up for this fun swap
  • List four winter themed tins you would like to recieve in the comments section below
  • Wait until partners are assigned then go pick which tin you want to make for your partner
  • Alter your tin with whatever you want then stuff it with items along the same theme.
  • Mail it out to your new friend

The rule to follow is that you must list four themes which you associate with winter. I'm thinking snow, peppermints, hot chocolate, Santa, gingerbread man, The Grinch, holly, ice skating, you get the idea.... Right?

I'm making this USA/Canada for postage reasons and strapped holiday cash.

There are some good examples on Craftster so check those out. You can use anything you like to decorate these! I use fimo a lot but you can use paper, paint, material, etc. I'll try looking for some tutorials as well.

Discussion

HoneyBunny 10/27/2010 #

I wish for a:

  • peppermint themed tin
  • penguin themed tin
  • elf themed tin
  • Christmas tree themed tin
tiggerkitn25 10/27/2010 #

I love the idea, but do you know of any good tutorials for altering these tins? I don't want to mess it up if I join, lol. Any links or tutorials would be appreciated. Thanks!

HoneyBunny 10/28/2010 #

@tiggerkitn25 check out the link I posted in the swap description. I'll search around for some good tutorials for ya! :)

RadicalRecrafter 10/29/2010 #

I wish for a:

hot cocoa themed tin. snowflakes themed tin (no snowmen,please!They scare me!) old fashioned Christmas themed tin. winter in the woods(trees,etc.) themed tin. I don't really think there is a way to "mess this up"! As long as my tin doesn't have any scary snowmen on it I'm good!

RadicalRecrafter 10/29/2010 #

How do you get those nice "dots" before each listing? My comment didn't come out looking anything like I wanted it to!

tiggerkitn25 10/30/2010 #

You put a dash/hyphen, then a space, then your list item. Or an asterisk will work too, but you must put a space after it. =)

lefroggy 11/ 4/2010 #

ginger bread house, the grinch, sugar plumb fairies, (dose nightmare before Christmas count? if not then your chose!! i actually love when people are creative :D ,

heather76 11/ 5/2010 #
  • Christmas candy (candy canes, ribbon candy, etc)
  • Gingerbread House or gingerbread men
  • Christmas tree
  • Snowmen
dschmale 11/ 5/2010 #
  • Gingerbread house or men
  • Snowman
  • Elf
  • Christmas wrapped present
HoneyBunny 11/ 5/2010 #

Woohoo! Thanks for joining everyone! @lefroggy I would definately say that The Nightmare Before Christmas counts! That would be a fun tin to make!!!

17Papergoddess 11/ 7/2010 #

I would opt for basic blue/white color combo, & since I see a lot of sparkly/shiny/glittery ornaments I think Glitter should be a theme, lol. Holiday baking & preparing of all types of decorative candy/cookies/ cupcakes so a Fun Food theme ( would carry over to a cookie/cupcake theme with holiday embellishing) and my personal fave, lol, big ol' comfy sweaters & wool mittens :) ( more of a textile type theme I guess) Is there such a thing as holiday ninjas?

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