Anniversary Craftiness

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My sweetie and I just celebrated the anniversary of our first date, so I made her a few small prezzies. We love going to the beach and sadly the season is coming to an end, so I made a pocket beach kit she can keep on her desk. The inspiration came from here. Pardon the cell phone quality photos!




Supplies...



I covered the nutritional information on the bottom of the tin with a piece of beachy fabric and used it to attach and disguise the ribbon that will hold the lid to the tin.



I scuffed up the top of the tin with fine grit sandpaper, sponged it with gesso and then painted it blue with craft paint.



I added some stickers and a tourist map cutout, then sprayed the surface with clear gloss finishing spray.



I attached the other end of the ribbon to the inside of the tin lid, then covered that with a cutout of a beach scene.



Close-up of the ribbon "hinge"



The complete kit. I made little stick figures of us to stick in the sand. The sponge is just to display them for this photo.






Then I made a set of silly magnets from keyboard keys packaged in a decoupaged AOL tin. Yeah, I'm a dork.




Supplies...


I use magnets from http://www.amazingmagnets.com/

Finished in the AOL tin



More of the decoupaged tin.





Thanks for looking!