Altered Tin Storage Buckets

Supplies needed:
Tin bucket (the buckets and hanging system shown here was purchased at IKEA)
plain white paper (you can tape several pieces together if needed for larger tins)
printed scrapbook paper
pencil
scissors
glue (a craft glue stick was used for this project. You could also use glue dots or white glue. Anything paper friendly)
optional: ribbon, tags, other embellishments



Step 1: lay your bucket on your paper close to one edge. Use your pencil to draw a line at the top and bottom of your bucket as you slowly roll it across the page. Be careful not to shift the bucket while drawing. Continue rolling and drawing until you've traced around the entire bucket with a little overlapping. You will end up with two arches.



Now draw a straight line from your top arch to your bottom arch on both ends and cut out. This is your template.



Fit it around your bucket to make sure it fits. You can make any minor adjustments to your template before you cut out your good printed paper.

If the fit is good, use the template to draw it on the back of your printed paper. I used a 12x12 sheet of scrapbook paper and drew the template on a diagonal from corner to corner. Cut it out and glue to your bucket. I glued down the starting edge, wrapped the paper around, and then glued the end.



I embellished my buckets by adding some ribbon and some metal rimmed tags, but anything goes! Have fun creating your own unique storage!

Altered Address Book

Supplies:
spiral bound journal
Assorted scrapbook papers
Ribbon
glue (I used a glue stick for the papers and a glue pen for the ribbon)
embellisments
scissors



Lay open the front cover of your journal onto the back of your paper. Measure 1/2" larger and cut out. Do the same for the back cover.



For the front, tear into 3 strips (widths do not have to be even). We're going to leave out the middle part when attaching the paper so that another paper can peek out underneath it.





Cut a strip of coordinating paper wider than than what is needed to fill the open gap, and the same length as the cover paper.



Glue the bottom 'peek-a-boo' stip to the front cover, letting the edges overhang. Glue the two side stips overlapping the middle strip.



To fold over the edges to the inside of the cover, notch out the corner, fold down and glue.



Cut out a coordinating piece of paper the size of your inside cover and glue down. This will hide the edges of your front paper fold. Now complete the back cover the same way, except with only a solid paper on the outside instead of 3 strips.



Glue down ribbon along the paper edge both inside and on the front cover. Repeat on the back cover.





For the dividers, I glued down some precut chipboard tabs I had to the lined pages inside. You can cut these out of cardstock too.



Embellish! Embellish! Embellish!

Altered Recipe Box

Supplies:
cardboard recipe box (the plastic ones would work as well)
assorted scrapbook papers
glue (I used a glue stick for the papers, glue pen for the ribbon)
scissors
ruler
embellishments



Measure the width of the bottom half of your box and add 1". Cut two strips of the same paper (one won't fit all the way around) and glue one to the front and one to the back, overlapping at the sides and overhanging at the bottom.





Fold down the corners and glue to the bottom of the box. To finish the bottom, cut a piece of the same paper the exact size as the bottom and glue down to hide the folds.



Measure the width of the top half of the box and add 1/2" (for reference, its the green paper with small daisies) . Again, cut 2 strips of coordinating paper and glue down, overlapping at the sides and overhanging at the top. Again, fold down the corners to the top of the box this time, and glue.

Cut a third coordinating piece of paper the size of the top of the lid plus a little extra to cut into a point that will overhang down the front face. (Use the picture as a reference). Use your ruler to find the center for the point. Glue down.



Glue down ribbon around the top of the box, following the point on the front face (see picture) as well as around the top of the bottom half of the box.



Glue a ripped strip of paper across the top and embellish!