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
Covering mint tins with polymer clay has been very popular for years. The basics are simple but the finished product can be as simple or elaborate as the creator wants.
- 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.
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Geeky Tin Projects
Those of a more geeky nature have also had a lot of fun with altoids tins. Using them as cases for a variety of gadgets.
- 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
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Re-purposed Tin Projects
Tins are so great for holding little objects, turn one into a tiny kit or case!
- 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.
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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
- Altered Tin - Mini Purse - Craftbits.com Craft Project
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Advanced Tin Projects
These projects are not for the faint of heart. They are only for the hard core altoids tin creator.
- Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins | The Steampunk Workshop
- Electrolytically Etching and Copper Plating Altoid Tins
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- chayadawell chayadawell Feb 10, 2010 @ 8:11 am
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk Nov 9, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
- cute, eco-friendly repurposing ideas
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Aug 18, 2009 @ 11:14 am
- Great ideas! I like to use them as a holder for a mini-first aid kit.
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- Stainedglassgal Stainedglassgal Jul 16, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
- Great information. Thanks for sharing it.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Jun 15, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
- Yes, I do love this lens! Very neat ideas!
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