Recycled Tin Can = Mini Easter Bucket

Ink Stained Roni here. This month Altered Pages Artsociates has the fun opportunity to incorporate products offered at The Robin's Nest into our projects.

If you've visited my blog you'll know I love to re-purpose every day items destine for the trash bin into art. Today I wanted to share what I recently did with a tin can I saved from the recycle bin.

I started off by covering the entire can with a few layers of gesso. The gesso allows you to add various color mediums that you might not be able to otherwise.

Once the gesso dried I covered the can with Dylusions Spray Ink... I heat set the colors on each side before rolling it and adding more until the entire can was colored. It was fun to watch the inks run down the little grooves in the can because as they did they combined to create new combinations.

I added a strip of Aquamarine Sorbet cardstock to the center of the can which I added a line detail to the edge using a Micron pen. I then adhered the flower border sticker over the cardstock. I glued on a Dew Drop over the center of each of the flowers. I added bee & butterflies around the can as well!

Next I created a fun little collage on a library card using various bits from both Altered Pages and The Robin's Nest finishing it off with some vintage seam binding dyed with the same inks I used to color the tin can.

I used a bit of mesh lace to cover the can lip to prevent cuts while diving in for jelly beans and added some fun glittery purple "grass".... All that I need now is some of that yummy Easter candy to hide inside!

Altered Pages Products used:

Sweet Easter Cards Collage Sheet

Altered Art Ephemera Tag Pack

Scor Double Stick Tape

Brown Ink

Ink Blending Tool

The Robin's Nest Products used:

Aquamarine Sorbet Cardstock

Bunny Stripe Cardstock

Butterfly Glitter Sticker Sheet

Dew Drops

Viva Rub Ons

Other Supplies used:

Vintage Seam Binding

Mesh Lace

Tin Can

Purple Easter Basket Grass

DINA WAKLEY Featured Artist

We are SO Proud to present Dina Wakley with her ART and February Tip (oops, she says she is totally disorganized, so there is HOPE for all of us!)

Dina Wakley is a mixed-media artist and teacher. She loves everything about art: creating it, thinking about it, looking at it, and teaching it. Dina is passionate about teaching art. She teaches both in-person and online workshops. She is a docent at the Phoenix Art Museum, where she gives tours to school groups and gets kids excited about art. As a Ranger Signature Designer, Dina designs a line of mixed-media art supplies that includes acrylic paints, mediums, brushes, rubber stamps, stencils, and more. Look for the Dina Wakley Media Line by Ranger at a store near you. Dina's books Art Journal Freedom and Art Journal Courage are available now. Also look for three new North Light DVDs starring Dina, available this month: "Art Journal Mark Making and Throwing Ink," Art Journal Color Courage," and "Art Journal Stenci…

Rolling with my Gel Press

I love experimenting with different ways to create texture and interest on my Gel Press and for many years now I have turned to fun foam to help do this when monoprinting. I love to team the fun foam with my dies to create my own stamps and texture plates. I used this techniques for my prints in January that I shared here on the blog. There are lots of dies that have detail, meaning lots of scrap pieces which you can randomly stick onto cardboard giving you a stamp as well as using the actually die cut shape as a stamp. Another idea is using them attached to a toilet roll to create a brayer like roller was shared at my local scrapbook store and on a video by Birgit Koopsen last year. I love playing with this method. The toilet roll is slipped over a paint roller handle.

Here you can see some of my texture creations that I have on hand for my play today.

One texture I love is created using a piece of burlap ribbon, which I have stuck onto a toilet roll. My first layer above used th…

The Gift Card Card

Robin here and today I have a project for you that is a fun way to give gift cards or cash.

You will need two envelopes for this project. One is what the post office calls the 6 1/4 Commercial envelope. When I was growing up we just called it a letter envelope. It's a smaller rectangle than the #10, being just 3 5/8" x 6 1/4". The other is a standard A6. I chose the A6 because it fits inside the letter envelope when it's folded in half and it's also large enough to hold a check or cash, as well as a gift card.

With the flap against the body of the envelope, fold it in half from side to side. Cut the flap in half and trim the inside cuts at an angle so that they don't interfere with the fold or get bunched up.

Decorate the flap side of your envelope. This will be the inside of your card. Fold the envelope again and decorate the side that will be the front of your card.

Cut a panel of card stock to fit inside the 6 1/4 Commercial (letter) envelope. Att…

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