A simple project, can be done in a day; fun for kids to do too, up-cycling the left over sweet tins into decorative boxes, as my 8 year old would say "Sweeet! "In this instance the boxes were for the two boys, somewhere to store the smaller toys Santa brought them, Lego, toy soldiers etc. With them in mind I decoupaged two empty sweet tins with old Beano and Dandy comics. You can easily cutomise your tin to suit its purpose, IE. print off pictures of buttons and zips for your sewing box, or decorative flower images from nursery brochures for keep-sakes, or with pictures of batteries and nails because thats what usually ends up in our old sweet tins!
What to do? All you need is spray paint for tin, scrap paper of choice, PVA glue and paintbrush and a hour or so! (spray tin earlier so its dry before decoupage). Layer you torn paper coating liberally with PVA as you go. Stop when Finished! and leave to dry.The hardest part is eating all the sweets.... needless to say boys helped me ;) Might have to make a couple more...
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