Tutorial: Pretty Pill Boxes

The link previously included here no longer works. We’re scouring the crafty internet for another good tin-covering tutorial.

Here’s another covered box idea – this one with slider tins – to make small boxes. Store your mints, sewing needles or tiny embellishments and treasures. Or fill your pretty tin with treats and gift it to a lucky recipient.

There’s a few tips and tricks in here that are helpful – she doesn’t cover the bottom of the tin because it’s a perfectly nice silver tone but does indicate how you could paint it out. This let’s it stay a slider tin which covering in clay might gum up. And she recommends using two aluminum foil roaster pans with one doubling as the lid for your baking set up. While I’m used to baking clay the folks around me appreciate when I cover it up because the smell of baking plastic never amuses them as much as it does me.