An Awfully Big Art Adventure - An Altered Tin ...

The challenge over at Rosie and Linda's this week has an environmentally friendly and green theme - alter a tin ...... I don't generally eat tinned stuff but after ferreting around in the back of the kitchen cupboard I found a tin of baked beans. I didn't really fancy beans on toast, so they are in the fridge (maybe later) and the tin was washed out.

So, what can you do with a tin? I didn't dare attempt cutting holes out of it with scissors and pliers (I once had a most unfortunate experence opening a tin of corned beef, which involved copious amounts of blood, fainting and five stitches) so I stuck with the old faithfuls - Alcohol Inks, my Crop-a-Dile and some eyelets.
I thought the end result was pretty boring really, so I decided to use it as a vase. I shoved a piece of that florist's foam in the tin (gosh that stuff gets everywhere) and stamped out Fresh Bloom by Stampendous a number of times, water coloured the flowers with Aquatone sticks, used gel pens to highlight the stamens and stuck them to florist's wire. The curly bits are pieces of that Japanese cord beginning with 'M', which I can't remember the name of - lol.
The tin still looked boring, so I put ribbon through the eyelets and put some smaller stamped flowers around it.
I took the photo before I went to work this morning. The light was really bad outside and it was raining anyway, so this was taken indoors - flowers look great - shame about the tin .....