DIY Valentines Pet Mini Album

If you’re new here, I post a recycled Pirouline tin craft every month! You can find them all here. 

This is actually a second recycled Pirouline project for the month of February. There are just so many possibilities for Valentines projects, which is why I made this mini album!

This past weekend I got 2 new baby guinea pigs, 2 girls that I named Milky Way and Mars and they are both sooo adorable that I had to scrapbook them. I thought it would be fun to make a “Valentines” themed album, featuring my furry friends!

The Pirouline tin lids make the covers of the mini album, with one facing up and one facing down.

1. Start by punching a hole into the tops of both of your lids.

 
2. Next decorate your covers. This could be done SO many different ways. I covered the tops with glitter washi tape and then adhered twine around the sides of the lids.

 

 
4. Adhere your photos onto the backsides of the paper circles and punch holes in the tops. Feel free to add stickers and embellishments.

5. Bind everything together with a binder ring.

What is something you have made a mini album out of? Cookie Tins?

DIY “Carved Tree” Pirouline Tin

Here’s how I made it!

Supplies: Empty Pirouline Tin, Sand Paper, Air Dry Clay (I used some Model Air clay by Polyform), Gold Spray Paint (I used Champagne Nouveau by Krylon), Pink or Red Acrylic Paint, Brown Acrylic Paint, Paintbrush.

This is the clay that I’ve had the best luck with-

1. Start by sanding your pirouline tin. This roughs it up and gives it texture so that the air dry clay sticks to it better. Be sure to sand the lid as well.

2. Take a piece of clay and use your fingers to smoosh it and wrap it around your tin, working it and smoothing it until you have your tin covered.

3. Next you need to take something with a pointy edge (I actually used an old clay sculpting tool I had) like a tooth pick and “carve” your tree.

Start by drawing a heart and your initials into your clay and then drawing woodgrain lines around it. I also added “wood knots” and more wood grain patterns around the backside of the tin.

Make sure to do this step while the clay is still soft, before it drys.

4. Repeat step 3 with the lid, only carving a swirl or circles as if it were the end of a stump.

5. Set your clay outside or somewhere it won’t get disturbed and let it dry.

6. Once dry, Give your tree a coat of spray paint and let that dry.

8. Repeat step 7 with a brown paint and going inside the lines of your woodgrain pattern.

I actually used a brown wax paint (The wax paint is meant to go over chalk paint), because I liked that it was sort of creamy, but to achieve the same look with acrylic paint, just water it down a tiny bit before painting the woodgrain.

Let your paint dry completely.

Would you use this as a Valentines project or just make it for yourself like I did? 😉

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Glitter and Lace Valentines Pirouline Tins

Supplies: Pirouline Tins, Spray Adhesive,Glitter in multiple colors, Gloss/Acrylic Coating Spray OR Mod Podge, Lace Trim, Hot Glue

1. If they aren’t already, Empty out your pirouline tins.  Spray the outside of your tin with spray adhesive, I recommend doing this outside. (You can use another type of adhesive if you want, I find that spray is easiest.)
2. Sprinkle glitter over your tin. I went for an ombre look on one, and gold + silver on the other. Shake off the excess glitter onto a piece of scrap paper and use it to pour the glitter back into your glitter container.
3. To seal your glitter and to keep it from coming off at the touch, Go over it with either a coat of mod podge, or a spray acrylic coating. Let that dry!
4. Cut a piece of lace to fit around your tin. Use hot glue to glue one end down at the back of the tin, wrap your lace around and glue down the other end.

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