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Hello! I was browsing through here a little bit last night and thought that it's a great community :)
I noticed j9crafts's post with the Altoids tin, and thought that maybe she got it from Bust magazine, as I did. Apparently she did not ;p

Either way, here it is. The present that I made for my boyfriend last Christmas :)




I got this idea from Bust magazine. You take an Altoids tin and set it on the burner for a couple minutes and it gets charred, giving it that vintage look :) Then you take tin snips and cut out a heart (which was a bitch, btw).. then I added some red beads, they showed pink. I wanted this to be more romantic :)


This is the front, again. You can't tell as much, but I scratched a heart into it and put a half marble on top to magnify it.


Another view of the front, and the back. The back crackled, which was neato.


The front inside. I found this great set of buttons, etc. at the craftstore. So I added the cherub buttons and roses, more beads, and a mini-picture of me with another half marble to magnify it. And the movie stub from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is on the bottom right. The right on the white paper says, "mon couer est vôtre" which means "my heart is yours." Or, so, it should mean that. LOL.. I don't speak French, but I looked it up.. so hopefully the online translator didn't lie ;p The other paper on the left says "always"


A closer view of all of the above...


open love. yay.


The main part of the inside. 2 more mini-pictures of me with the half marbles again. And awhile ago I got this neat card-making kit that came w/ those pretty hearts. One is paper with red glitter all over it, making it hard. The other is kind of an ivory type material with a red wire heart. The kit also came w/ those red sequins and white faux pearls.


On the bottom they suggest you add something with pictures of you, etc. I thought this was a great idea. So, I used some of my pretty patterned paper and folded it acordian-style and tied it down with a bow, as you can see in one of the above pictures.


Closer view of the accordian-styled 'photo album' :)


The pictures! About 6 of us taken throughout the 2 years we've been together. Cute kissy pictures, sleepy pictures, and more cute kissy pictures :)

As I said, I spent forever on this thing and I'm so pleased with how it turned out. These low-quality pictures really don't do it justice. But I don't think a better camera would, either :)