A Creatively Fun Day

I think the weather powers tried to wash us away for good today but they didn't succeed thank God! Our city got over 8" of rain in less than 24 hours! And a city about a 20 min drive south of us got over a FOOT in that same period!!! So if you live up north in the path of this storm, get ready! Cuz that equals out to a LOT of snow!!! Brrrrrr!!!
Anyway that made for a very creative day. I make chocolate chip cookies every year for Steve's clients, the bank tellers, etc. and this year I wanted to mail some to his three brothers. I mean after all why should I pay $50 for some basket plus $10 S&H to mail them when the post office has the $10 priority mail deal! And it's only $10 to send to Alaska too! So in a visit to the local dollar store yesterday I found these tins. Perfectly good tins as they were - two copper, one red, one green. But when it's pouring down rain and you have to drug the dog so he won't freak out and run away (like he did in the middle of the night - but that's another story) then us scrappers and crafters get a bit crazy, brave and creative. Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas helped too cuz they got my mind thinking... Soooo...
I took one of the copper tins and I started out with the alcohol inks and made a plaid pattern...

Prettier than before, but it still needed something... So out came the Staz-On black ink and a few stamps. The big background crackle stamp was first. Hmmm... That's even better! But it still needs MORE... Out come the flourishy, flowery stamps and THIS is what I came up with!


Here's a close-up of the lid...


I have to say that I'm pretty proud of myself. And I'm amazed at how EASY this was!!! I've already done both of the copper ones and I'm about to do the red and green ones. I think I'll leave off the alcohol inks on those tho because they're pretty nice colors already... Maybe I'll just add a dab or two of pearl or gold or silver.....
I'm off to do more creating! Check back later cuz there might be more to see!