Altoids Tins - A Myriad of Uses
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Recycle your mint and candy tins.
Altoids and other candies sometimes come in great little tins. It really seems a shame to throw away such useful little boxes, they just call out to be made into something new. There are so many things that can be done with these little mint tins.
Polymer Clay Covered Tins
- HowTo Cover an Altoid Tin
- I've had such fun covering Altoid mint tins and other tins.
- Altoids Turtle Keepsake Sculpey Project
- I took an empty Altoids box and thought it would make a nice project for testing my sculpting skills. I wanted to make a Turtle Keepsake Box.
- Altered Altoid Tin with Polymer Clay - the Sea Maiden by ToniAnn Carbone
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- Cut Out + Keep | Project » Faux Wood Altoid Tin Box
- Classy, finished wooden box minus the wood..
- Crafts : Other : Mint Tin Treasure Box : Home & Garden Television
- Mimi Diehl embellishes an everyday mint tin with marbled polymer clay to make a tiny mint tin treasure box.
Geeky Tin Projects
- MintyBoost! - Small battery-powered USB charger - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech, music - Entry
- This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug in...
- LED Beginner Project: Part 2 - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech - Entry
- This project was my next step in my exploration of the world of LEDs. Here, I will show how to wire LEDs in parallel in order to make a simple bike l...
- Easy LED Flashlight - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech - Entry
- Hello,Welcome to my Easy LED Flashlight
Re-purposed Tin Projects
- Altoid Tin Mini Toolboxes
- I thought about it and thought about it and decided these tins would make a great caddy for holding collections of little odds and ends. Like screws and nuts and bolts and stuff! Things that dads need. Why not make an Altoid-Tin Nuts and Bolts Screw Organizer! And THEN I thought of making it look like a little red toolbox! I love miniature things with a passion. Give me anything at five percent of its actual size and I will swoon. Seriously.
- Altoids Tin Pocket-Sized Watercolor Box - Instructables - DIY, How To, outdoors - Entry
- This Instructable, my entry in the pocket-sized contest, will teach you how to build your own pocket-sized watercolor box.Remember when you were a k...
- The Twisted Stitcher Tutorials: Altoid Tin Finish Tutorial
- Little sewing kit and pin cushion out of an altoids tin.
- Altoid's Tin Wallet
- Altoid's Tin Wallet
- Crafts : Other : Recycled Mint Tin Beauty Kit : Home & Garden Television
- Project designed by Ellen Allan.
- Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » diy project: kate's miniature helper tins
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- Altoids Tin Garden - GOMI Style
- Everyone seems to be putting their DIY projects into Altoids tins and other candy containers. I've been collecting these small containers for a while but didn't have a use for them until now. The Altoids Garden.
- The Pocket Tacklebox
- Do you love fishing? If you do, then you will love this mini tackle box made with just an altoids tin and a couple popsicle sticks. This tacklebox wil...
- Pocket First Aid Kit
- Out hiking or just for a walk and don't want to carry a bulky kit? This will fit into your pocket no trouble!The ever so versatile Altoids Tin becomes...
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Crafty Tin Projects
- Project - Decoupage a Fantasy with Altered Tins - Paper Crafts
- Take a discarded mint tin, tissue paper, glue and glitter and you´re off to Neverland. - Project - Decoupage a Fantasy with Altered Tins - Paper Crafts is a personally written site at BellaOnline
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Advanced Tin Projects
- Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins | The Steampunk Workshop
- Electrolytically Etching and Copper Plating Altoid Tins
- Hacked Gadgets :: View topic - Altoids can Morse Code Oscillator
- Morse code oscillator from a tin.
- MintyCam (Altoids Candy tin) Pinhole Camera | Chris Keeney Photography
- San Diego professional photographer Chris Keeney, specializing in family and corporate portraiture, weddings and event photography. Artist interviews, photo equipment reviews, vintage and pinhole camera pages, monthly pinhole photographer features, creative inspirational writing and much more.
- Make: Online | Altoids Tin Radio
- The awesome Craig Smith is at it again. He continues to explore the venerable crystal radio, now focusing on miniaturization. And that, of course, means on thing: Mint Tin Crystal Set! Craig writes...
- Make: Online | Mint-Tin FM Transmitter
- Chris's transmitter uses only 17 parts and has a range of 100 feet indoors. The goal of this project is for me personally to learn a little more about fm transmitters and fm bug making (may the HA
Fun Tins on Flickr
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My Tin Creations on Etsy
Blue Ringed Octopus Tin - Altered Art Sea Life Altoid Tin | Price: $45
Sculpted blue-ringed octopus over a watery blue background. Sculpted in polymer clay over an altoid tin and painted in acrylics.
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Deep Sea Life Small Tin - Glow in the Dark Altered Art Altoid Tin | Price: $0
Deep black water is teeming with bioluminescent animals is displayed on this tin. Sculpted in black polymer clay with swirls of blue and green mica po... (full description)
Baby Rat in Altoid Tin- Original Mixed Media Rodent Sculpture | Price: $45
Really fun sculpture of a life-sized baby rat tucked into a Dark Chocolate Altoid tin. He's sculpted in polymer clay and laying on a little hand-s... (full description)
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lilymom24
Jan 11, 2012 @ 9:57 am | delete
- Some great ideas on how to recycle little tins. Thanks. =)
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ladykida
Dec 10, 2011 @ 9:42 pm | delete
- I really hadn't given much thought to versatile these little tins could be, what wonderful idea's....thanks a bunch!
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OldStones
Oct 31, 2011 @ 5:29 am | delete
- Great ways to recycle/re-use candy tins. The Altoid tin fireball shooter looks very interesting :)
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