An Altered Tin: 'Fall in love with Buttons' Swap

'Fall in Love with Buttons' is a swap I joined in with on a lovely blog called

Button Floozies.

"With Autumn soon upon (most of) us, I thought it would be a lot of fun to have a Fall-themed swap! The Fall in Love with Buttons Swap is one-to-one; that is, each participant will be paired up with a swap partner. We will each alter an Altoids tin, filling it with autumn colored or autumn themed buttons, and send it to our partner!"

I love buttons (well, who doesn't!) and I love sorting

through them, so couldn't wait to alter a tin to fill it up -

 I had to though as I didn't

have the right sized tin but found one on Ebay.

I painted the tin with a coat of white acrylic,

then covered it with some Autumnal patterned Decopatch paper.

I cut some leaves from scraps of leather

using the Tim Holtz' Alterations/Sizzix 'Tattered Leaves' die.

I found a couple of wooden beads to represent berries.

I stitched the leaves and berries onto an old doily flower then stuck it

onto the lid.  I also added a couple of Autumnal themed buttons.

I remembered a poem learnt at school, well the first few

lines of it anyway - Ode to Autumn by John Keats.

I Googled and found it, printed out a few lines

and added them to the outside and inside of the lid.



Then the best bit - finding all the Autumnal coloured buttons

to go inside - I must admit I wanted to keep them all - lol!

Here's all the buttons I managed to cram inside the tin.

Unfortunately my swap partner hasn't confirmed whether or not

she's received the tin yet, although as I sent it out at the end

of last month it should have arrived by now.

This is how I wrapped it - the button card (gift tag) is a rubber stamped

image from the 'Very Vintage Set 3 La Couture' A Katy Fox Collection

from Toodles and Binks.

If you want to see some of the other altered tins and buttons

there is a Linky thingy on the Button Floozies blog here 

and some more on the Button Floozies Swaps

group on Flickr here.

Thanks for looking at mine :)