Remember when we used to find a lot of crafty things to use at the Dollar Spot at Target? I haven’t in a while but the other day I found this pretty tin that looked like it could be decorated for Valentine’s Day! It already has a lot of cut out hearts on the tin so I added a big heart and new ribbon.
To decorate this tin, I cut out several different hearts with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies on page 6 of the Occasions Catalog. I played around first with the grouping of little bitty hearts, but I wasn’t pleased with that for the tin. If you ever need a bunch of tiny little individual hearts cut out, run that die through the Big Shot and you’ll have lots of little hearts even if you don’t use the grouping!
Next, I cut out one of the large printed hearts from the All My Love Designer Paper. It is one sheet with large hearts and small hearts. You could use this sheet as is or you can cut out all or some of the hearts. I also used the very frilly heart die to cut out a heart to overlay the printed heart. I liked that on the tin!
In the All My Love Suite in the Occasions Catalog is a package of two ribbons, the All My Love Ribbon Combo Pack. One spool is Lovely Lipstick 1/2″ Ribbon with a white stitched edge and the other spool is Flirty Flamingo 1/8″ wide ribbon. I used both ribbons to wrap around the tin with the ends meeting in the front. Then I adhered the heart I’d made over the ribbon ends using Stampin’ Dimensionals on the back.
A pretty easy way to decorate this Valentine tin a little more! Since it was already pretty “busy” I didn’t want to add much more. I could have stamped and adhered a greeting across the front, but I liked it the way it was. Then just put some candy inside, a candle, notecards or whatever you like. You could even use it to hold stamping supplies on your craft desk because the hearts aren’t only for Valentine’s Day!
You don’t have to find this exact tin, but you might find something similar, maybe already in your house, like a votive holder and this is one easy way you can decorate it!
Check out the Occasions Catalog All My Love Suite of products!