I had picked up these lovely little metal tins for a great price while shopping for another craft project. I thought they would make a great gift project. Another friend's birthday last month. She loves when she receives my craft gifts...she's a big fan of my homemade goodies and I enjoy her delight when she opens them. The tin's measurements are 5 1/2" by 3 1/2" wide and 1 5/8" deep. I had used some papers from DCW's Tradewinds paper pack. The piece I chose for the top of the box had two of these beautiful butterflies one at the top of the page and one of the bottom. I'll get two different boxes out of that particular page. I cut the strip to fit the top and rounded the corners. I attached it to the top of the box with a tape runner after inking the edges with some Tim Holtz distress ink. I cut the paper to showcase the butterfly which left some space on the lower right corner of the lid. I wanted to personalize the box for my friend so I pulled my chipboard letters out, found a "J" and painted it with some copper paint I had. After it dried I added some pretty pearls to the ends of the swirls of the letter. I took some copper and gold threaded ribbon from my supply and glued that around the edge of the lid. I also glued it around the inside rim of the box. That was an accident, as I realized afterwards that it would make closing the box a challenge. I would not do that the next time. Around the outside of the tin I cut two strips to band the box; because there were two seams on each long side of the box I cut two small pieces of the ribbon I used around the lid edge to cover the seams on the band. My adhesive of choice was E6000 to make sure everything stuck properly. I also cut a piece that matched the lid piece and used it to line the bottom of the inside of the tin.
Once the box was all finished I started making matching note cards for the tin. I cut strips of natural card stock for the back of the card and pulled some of the other patterned paper from the Tradewinds paper pack. I used the corner rounder to round the corners of the card and then cut a small square of the natural card stock. I stamped the word "thanks" from a StampinUp! stamp set on the square and mounted it with foam tape to give it some dimension. All together I made eight little cards to fit in the tin.
I decided the set needed some matching envelopes. Since these were not standard sized cards I made some envelopes out of the same card stock I used for the cards. When they were finished I stamped my girlfriend's initials on the back flap of the envelope to add a little flair.
Here is the completed set. They turned out quite nicely. Since I bought a few of the tins ($1.75 each online) I will be able to make a few more gift sets. These would be cute with a Christmas themed paper, maybe little Christmas thank you notes!
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