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Wooden Tin Stands, Potions, Halloween Trims, FREE Gift!
Filed under Alice in Wonderland, Altered Tins, Halloween, Kristin Batsel, Lora Mahaffey, Shannon Cooper
Tins on wooden stands?! I may have gone a bit crazy picking out some wooden candlestick holders and other finials to photograph with tins. Note there are some art samples below using some wooden stands. (AND there are two new options shown directly below, and in the photo at right).
Here’s a few more options in my photos (added to today’s sale, too!):
– Small Wooden Finials
– Small Wooden Spools
– Short Candlestick Holder
– Wooden Egg Cup
Potions Cupboard Altered Tin
by Shannon Cooper
I love the creepy, old-and-rusted look of this tiny tin by Shannon (she used a chunk of wood as her tin stand but this tin actually inspired this whole group)!
Starting my tour with the base of the inside of her tin: so clever how Shannon added a simple rectangle of chipboard to make a faux drawer (and the Half-Round Drawer Pulls to complete the look of a drawer).
Proceeding to the bottom shelf: note that Shannon moved both vertical dividers of the shelf insert to the middle shelf (so she’d have a wide open shelf). There’s a skull with a creepy pearl eyeball, plus a tray with moldy vegetables and a tiny potions bottle with a beetle label (see the wide close-up photos below for a better view). By the way, there’s a set of pie pans that would fit perfectly on that shelf for that tray (just add some ink to tarnish it gold/green).
Moving up to the middle shelf: there’s the larger version of the potions bottle (with an old crone label), tiny metal cauldron (just clip off the loop or hide it behind some foliage), rolled scrolls, a skull image behind a vitamin E pill on the scalloped plate (inspired!), tiny leaves, and tiny books.
Great job, Shannon! More specs and photos are on the original post.
Here’s a link to ALL of Shannon’s supplies… and don’t forget they’re all are included in the sale!
More Tin Stand Ideas
Starting with this darling Night Witch altered tin by Kristin Batsel!
Kristin used a Medium Wooden Finial as the base.
The spider web design at top and bottom are from 1 of the 3 inserts in the Altoids Tin Insert Frames – Wrought Iron.
I altered the witch image a bit: the hat was given a stripey band and a gold star, and outlined slightly with a gold Sharpie to make it stand out from the background. Then, to make the image more dimensional, I cut out the witch’s arms and the cat from a second, identical image. I attached her left arm flush at the shoulder, and used a foam glue dot to elevate the cat and her right arm. The cat’s eyes are highlighted with a little green paint and a dot of ink for pupils.
More specs and photos are on the original post. Here’s a link to ALL of Kristin’s supplies.
Next up is the We’re All Mad Here Altered Tin by Lora Mahaffey!
Lora used a 3 Inch Tall Candlestick Holder as the base of her tin.
Though this an Alice theme, with that black dresden around the bottom (and the overall use of black) I think this could be turned into a Halloween theme pretty easily. (Note that Lora cleverly used the lid of the tin as the base, under the candlestick holder.)
(After painting my tin black) I glued my pre-cut papers on the tin and then I glued little corks on the back of my Alice to bring her forward in the tin, and did the same for a couple of the paper roses so that they were at different depths inside the tin. The corks work out well as they are light weight and tapered and easy to work with.
Great idea about the corks! Plus they’re tall (thicker than sticky foam) so you can get Alice to pop out to the front of the tin quicker.
More specs and photos are on the original post. Here’s a link to ALL of Lora’s supplies… and don’t forget they’re all are included in the sale!
More New Halloween (and other seasonal) Trims
I couldn’t exactly call those new cute birdhouses at right “Halloween” themed — though they are small enough that they could be used on the shelves (like in Shannon’s project). Note the one on the left has a loop to hang it (and both are 3D castings).
Beside the 6 highlights below (and the two new column finials at the top of this page), there’s also some new spiders in the FREE Gift shown below!
 Ghost Figurine back in stock |
 Cauldron Button |
 1-1/2 Inch Wooden Baluster or Spindle |
 Black Chipboard Bat back in stock |
 Mini Resin Mushrooms |
 Tiny Scaredy Cat Buttons back in stock and now in black! |
A FREE Gift with All Orders
A Spiders Gift Kit is FREE with all orders placed today through Wednesday (ends at midnight August 27, 2025)!
This set includes:
– A set of the NEW Tiny Black Spiders
– A big mess of slightly larger spiders! Yes, those larger black ones are here (and included in the sale) but the glow-in-the-dark ones are custom to this set. (They’re the same size as the larger black ones in the photo.)
NEW: Wooden Stands SALE
Wait! Even more on sale! See the photos at right for a mock up I did of a few items that fit in the divided shelves. All those items are on sale too! (Ok… a couple overlap with what Shannon used but most are additions… see them all here plus a few are highlighted below!)
Over 70 items are on sale, including:
– all the new items,
– the items in the Gift Kit,
– the items shown at right from my “what fits on the new shelves” mock-up,
– all of the supplies from Shannon’s Potions Cupboard Altered Tin
– all of the supplies from Kristin’s Night Witch
– AND all of the supplies from Lora’s We’re All Mad Here Altered Tin
There’s a new AUTOMATIC DISCOUNT for an extra 25% off the listed prices: you’ll see the discount in your cart — no code required!
The sale ends WEDNESDAY NIGHT, August 27th at midnight PST.
 Mini Black Plastic Cauldron – No Handle |
 Amber Even Tinier Bottles note the bottom 2 shelves are so short that these bottles would not fit unless the corks were removed |
 14mm Round Glass Globe with Bronze Top that’s the globe in the middle row, sitting on a bronze crown |