My Other Creations: Beachy Bread Tin

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is, "Piece of Paradise."  Paradise, for me, is the beach!  Give me my fam, a good book and a little slice of sand next to the water and I am in heaven!  But where I live, coasts are a little hard to come by.  Even so, I tried to bring the beach into my crafty space by converting this bread pan into a beachy tin.

This little bread tin was a rusty old relic I found at the local thrift store for 50 cents.  I started by sanding the tin so paint would adhere to it, then I painted it with Gesso (I Gesso everything, especially if I'm not sure what my next step is)!  When that dried, I covered it with some patterned paper that had a beachy wood design.  I used a scoring board to make the fold lines nice and tight.  Here it is after I've covered one of the sides.

I covered the whole thing with paper, then added a beachy garland that includes starfish, which I truly do think are "Beautiful creatures."

The garland was a lot of fun to make.  After I cut out the pennant flags, I used the leftover "frame" parts on my garland, too. 

Here are the supplies I used to make my project, which you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Sanding Grip - Idea-ology	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Webster′s Pages Hall Pass 12 x 12 Paper	Fancy Pants True Friend Ticket Roll	Tim Holtz Sizzix Mini Sand and Sea Die	Technique Tuesday Flair Maker Die set	Heidi Swapp Make Pretty Stuff Word Clear Stamps
Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Picked Raspberry - Distress Ink	Peacock Feathers - Distress Ink	Colorbox Rain Forest Ink	Mustard Seed - Distress Ink	Sizzix Big Shot Machine	Lifestyle Crafts Genius Ultimate Platform System
Martha Stewart Scoring Board	Spiced Marmalade - Distress Ink	Timber Brown StazOn	Ripe Persimmon - Distress Ink	My Mind′s Eye Quite Contrary 6x6 Paper	American Crafts Shimelle 6x6 Paper	Mixed Media Sponges Bars

I can't wait to catch a glimpse of your pieces of paradise!  Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $50 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.  Sounds like a bit of paradise to me!