Beaded Tin

This jeweled tin makes a great keepsake for all the small items that you don’t want to misplace at camp, on a trip, in your purse, or on your dresser.

Materials needed:

• Jewel craft rhinestones
• seed bead mix
• ¼” Treasure Tape roll
• 4” x 6” Treasure Tape sheet
• Kreinik #12 Braid and 1/16” Ribbon metallic thread in your choice of colors (we used 007 Pink and 092 Star Pink)
• Lanyard
• scrap paper
• Diamond Beadlets®
• shallow pan or tray

Instructions:

1. Trace the surface of the tin onto scrap paper. Use this as a template to cut a piece of Treasure Tape to fit, and adhere tape to top of tin.
2. Peel off the red liner to expose sticky tape.
3. Decorate with rhinestones -- place larger ones first, then smaller ones.
4. Add seed bead mix.
5. Fill in with Diamond Beadlets®.
6. Wrap ¼” tape around the lid and embellish with lanyard and metallic thread. Cover completely with thread.

Tips: When applying stringy embellishments like ribbon, embroidery threads and fibers to double-sided Treasure Tape™, you can easily pull up the design and start again if you make a mistake or want to try a different design.

When using red liner Treasure Tape it is best to cut with Teflon® coated scissors -- or use adhesive remover to wipe the residue off your scissors.

Printing Instructions:
To print the instructions for this project click on the link at the top of the page "Printable Version" and print the page using your web browser.  If you have trouble printing this page and would like us to send you a printed copy send a #10 SASE to:  Beaded Tin, PO Box, Parkersburg, WV 26102.