Preserving Memories Is in the Can with Boxer Scrapbooks’ New Idea Book, Canned Memories

Boxer Scrapbooks’ new idea book, Canned Memories, allows you to preserve your memories using tin containers. This 32-page idea book offers over 40 full-color projects, with step-by-step instructions.

Tualatin, OR (PRWEB) January 26, 2006 -- For generations women have used canning to preserve their favorite foods, keeping them as fresh as the day they were created. Boxer Scrapbooks’ new idea book, Canned Memories, allows you to do the same thing with your memories. If you’re looking for innovative, do-able, outside-the-book project ideas, it’s in the can!

This 32-page idea book offers over 40 full-color projects. Scrapbookers and altered artists alike will benefit from the step-by-step instructions. The designers have added notes to make advanced technique less complicated. Projects in this book include mini albums, gift card holders, calendars, and invitations. Techniques include acrylic painting, heat embossing, inking, alcohol inks, paper tearing, crackling, and decoupage.

“Album sizes have changed for me,” writes Angie Warhurst, co-owner of Boxer Scrapbook Productions, “starting with 12x12, trying 8½x11, but then finding I loved 8x8 probably the most. However I can’t say I’ve finished one in the past three years.” She wanted to be able to create keepsakes in a few hours, rather than months. So she started experimenting with using tins as ‘albums’ – not only as a home for her photos and keepsakes, but as display pieces in their own right. “From there, it evolved into an entire product line,” she explains, “which you’ll see that our design team has had a blast creating with!”

Canned Memories offers examples of how crafters can easily create keepsakes using the Boxer Scrapbooks tin line, which includes tins in a variety of sizes and shapes, such as CD tins in rectangle and round, mint tins, and slide-top tins.

The Boxer design team came up with the following hints for working with metal tins:

• If your tin comes from another product, before you start working with it, make sure it’s clean. Wipe it out with basic alcohol.
• Also make sure the tin is free of moisture. If your tin has hinges, try using a hair dryer on a cool setting or a can of compressed air to dry the surface completely.
• If you plan to cover or paint your tin, you may want to lightly sand the surface first. Use fine grit sandpaper.

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