How To : Decorate metal tins with polymer clay
This video tutorial teaches how to cover metal tin with polymer clay. Learn how to decorate a small tin with polymer clay for a unique effect.
This video tutorial teaches how to cover metal tin with polymer clay. Learn how to decorate a small tin with polymer clay for a unique effect.
A brief demo of me making a studio light from a tin can. This video uses a GU-10 light socket and 50W(120v)globe aka bulb.
In this video, we learn tips on how to prevent cakes from sticking to a baking tin. The best way to do this is to butter up a piece of bread and rub it onto the entire baking tin. Make sure you get both the sides and the bottom of it. If you want to be healthy, use margarine i ...more
There is really no limit to the recycling that a somewhat handy person can do given only some tools and a good supply of scrap. This video walks you through one recycling project, making a wood-burning stove enclosure for your yard using only old roofing tin. If you have acces ...more
WeaponCollector teaches viewers how to make a mini survival kit using an Altoid's tin. You can get an S.A.S. guide for exact instructions and further information on what you will need in an survival kit. First, you should make sure you have rubber bands around your tin to hold ...more
How to Make a Tin Frame with Soda Cans You don't have to throw out your old soda cans anymore. Laura and Claiborne show how to recycle old cans into a craft project that creates a frame. You will need a wooden frame, soda cans, 5/8 of an inch nails, tin snipers, and a glue gun ...more
Budget Hack's cheap Wifi range extender works off of the age old concept of adding tin foil to your TV's rabbit ears. The materials are cheap, and the project is relatively easy (if you're willing to pick up some soldering skills). You Will Need: Two milo tins or similar F- ...more
This video gives step by step instructions on how to make a carry on tin case for your American Girl doll.
Entertain your friends by turning your traditional personal headphones into a mini loud speaker with just an old mint tin and a playing card. This might not be the most advanced or prettiest way of listening to music but sure is a fun way to kill some time. When it comes to f ...more
Learn how to flair bartend. This flair bartending video demonstrates the two bottle exchange with a forearm bump and tin snatch. Practice and you will soon master this flair bartending move.
Ingredients 2 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup margarine or butter, more for greasing muffin tin 1 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 & 1/4 cups milk chocolate eggs, enough for your muffin tin E ...more
Like theme music, I always feel that I need more fog in my life. Fog can be useful for many reasons—warding off smaller siblings from your bedroom, keeping curious hands out of your cupboard, and tricking your friends into thinking there's something horribly wrong with their v ...more
Betty teaches us how to make birthday cupcakes in this tutorial. You will need: a box of chocolate cake mix, chocolate frosting with sprinkles, vegetable oil, eggs, and water to make these. First, mix your dry and wet ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Next, line a c ...more
Christmas is no more than a week away and you've still got some holiday shopping to do. Need an easy, thoughtful and personalized gift idea? Phone Snap is here to show you how to bring those cell phone photos off-screen with these DIY marble photo magnets. It takes less than f ...more
Extend the life and luster of your copper pots with a few items that are probably in your kitchen. You Will Need * A soft cloth * Mild dish detergent * Warm water * Lemon juice * Kosher salt * Ketchup * A steel wool pad WARNING: Never heat copper pots lined with tin over a hi ...more
Preheat the oven to 170¬8C Sift the flour 3 times with the baking Powder whisk half the sugar with the egg yolks until thick tripled in volume and has reached the Ribbon Stage (you can draw a ribbon with the mixture when you lift the whisk up and the ribbon stays for about 3 ...more
Spread several sheets of wax paper on cookie trays, side-by-side. Using a butter knife, spread a teaspoon of peanut butter on each Ritz cracker. Set aside. Melt the milk chocolate in a double boiler on low to medium heat until fully melted. Stir to make sure all the chocolate ...more
Chef John from http://www.foodwishes.com brings us a lazy man's meatloaf for that perfect, quick, week-night meal. * Add 1 3/4lb ground beef to a large mixing bowl * Mix salt and pepper, cayenne pepper, celery salt, chipotle, garlic powder and onion powder with your fingertip ...more
Serve your friends and family turkey this year in a nontraditional way by baking and decorating these turkey cupcakes. Turning ordinary and very blah chocolate cupcakes into feathered birds requires only some chocolate icing, candy corn, and sprinkles. You can prepare these c ...more
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to remove rust from chrome. The materials required for this procedure are: a few sheets of regular tin foil, some water and an old t-shirt or rag. Begin by crumpling the tin foil into a ball and wet it with some water. Then scrub the r ...more
How to make Parkin & treacle Toffee Lewis Claire demostrates how to make parkin & treacle toffee. The ingredients required are 100gms of self raising flour,3 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg,100g golden syrup, 50g black reacle, 80g butter,100g soft brown sugar, 1 egg ...more
In this article, I'll show you how to make a portable prank stun-baton. Powered by static electricity, simply charge up the baton, and discharge it for a static surprise. The concept behind this device ties in with Leyden jars, and their tendencies to retain static electricity ...more
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a toy drum. You will need: felt, recycled tin can, 1 red lace, 4 soda caps, 2 popsicle sticks, glue, and scissors. Cit, cut the felt into a circle and glue it around the tin can. After this, take red felt and cut it into strips, then glue ...more
In this video we learn how to make a puff-pastry cornucopia. This is a great centerpiece for Thanksgiving and can be used to hold different foods such as buiscuts or finger sandwiches. First we need to form the mold for the cornucopia. You take some tin foil and make about 13- ...more
This a video which explains who to make treacle flapjack. To make the flapjacks requires 250g of unsalted butter, 250g of light soft brown sugar, 1 pinch of salt 175g black treacle and 500g of porridge oats. She first puts butter into a saucepan, roughly chopped, then adding t ...more
It's the American way. Bacon & guns. Here it is, step-by-step instructions for cooking bacon with an actual machine gun, via Reddit. Wrap the barrel in tin foil. Then wrap bacon around it, & tie with string. Wrap more tin foil around it, and once again tie it down with strin ...more
With the use of these items: an almond, a wired, tin foil filled with water, and matches, it is possible to boil water and cook over an almond. A wire is needed to tie around the almond so the almond is above your work area. Then, light the almond on fire using the matches. Ho ...more
Elaine Lemm demonstrates how to make the traditional British dish, yorkshire pudding. This video recipe goes through all the necessary steps for preparing yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire puddings are part of the British national dish of roast beef and Yorkshire puddings. However ...more
Check out this how to video to learn how to make Mexican s'mores with flour tortillas. Experience the flavor or classic s'mores with a Mexican twist. Video: . Mexican S'more Ingredients: 4 Small flour tortillas Peanut butter Chocolate chips Mini marshmallows Tin Foil Directi ...more
This recipe from Betty's Kitchen shows how to make mini cheesecakes. She uses a muffin tin and makes a graham cracker crumb crust. She makes graham cracker crumbs by crushing the crackers in a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin. She generously greases each cup in the muffin tin wit ...more
First of all go to Google and then type in 'candy bar wrapper image' and then enter and go to image results. Select the 'crunch' image and right click and then 'copy' and then go to word document and paste it there. But if the image is big then right click and select 'hyperlin ...more
This video shows you how to make an Altoids tin can USB charger for your ipod. Be patient, these guys are apparently learning as they go, but you'll eventually get it.
During the darkness of the winter months some bright and spirited holiday decorations can really add holiday cheer to a home. This Christmas, try making this festive tree and light table piece because you can never have too many decorations. Step 1: Clean and dry baby food ja ...more
Instead of making regular old cup cakes try something new and show the people in your life just how much you care with a fun heart-shaped cup cake. The best part is you don't need a heart mold. All you need is your regular cupcake tin and a marble to create the shape. How do ...more
To me, the term muffin tin is a lot like Voldemort—it should never be uttered. Not for being evil, however... instead, it's because it's inaccurate. First of all, muffin tins are hardly ever made out of tin anymore. (The materials on trend are stainless steel, cast iron, and ...more
Hi! All the cake lovers, welcome to my first post in the World of Dessert Recipes. I would like to contribute a recipe for the chocolate cake, called Taraba. The original recipe was made in Bosnia. It is one of my favorite cakes, very sweet, but does not contain fruit. People ...more
A cold drink on a hot day is a welcome sight; but a cold drink with ice-encased fruit is both both refreshing and irresistible. Fruit-infused cubes give water a burst of flavor, dress up cocktails or iced tea, add elegance to punch bowls, and will impress everyone. They're al ...more
Aren't the weekends extra special when they include a bacon, egg, and pancake breakfast? We call it "Lazy Sunday" for a reason. Actually, who needs it to be a weekend? Monday it is! Make Perfect Poached Eggs Every Single Time But who wants to wake up, prep for a half-hour, a ...more
When I was in college, I invited a girl over for a date. It was a glorious spring day, and I thought it would be the perfect time to fire up the unused barbecue that had been sitting on my patio all school year. I prepped all the food, chilled all the beer, and then I realized ...more
Steaming food has a lot of advantages over other cooking methods. The gentle heat of steam allows for meats, such as chicken wings, to become more moist after cooking. It also allows for quicker cooking times. Vitamin and color retention among vegetables is also optimal when ...more
Show your significant other just how much you love them by surprising him or her with one of life's most precious, romantic gifts—bacon! Best thing is, this passionate treat works for any day of the year (Valentine's Day, a first date, anniversary, etc.), since love and bacon ...more
I've had a handlebar mustache for about five years now, and I've learned a lot over those years about how to grow and care for it. I will now share all of that information with you! Hopefully this will encourage you to grow one for Movember! The first thing I want to address r ...more
I'm not a big fan of single-use tools, especially ones that don't get used particularly often. And I'm especially not a big fan of seldom used single-use tools that take up a large amount of space. One of these tools is the steamer, which is on the list of "kitchen essentials ...more
Everyone has a junk drawer in their kitchen. It's like an unspoken rule. The junk drawer is full of all the strange bits of what not that accumulates in your home over time. Everything in there is useful, and you never want to throw any of it away for fear that you might need ...more
In this video, I show you how to build tinfoil cars for crushing with toy Monster Trucks. My son Eston and I love monster trucks. One of the most exciting things when you go to see monster trucks live, is when they crush cars. Problem is, when you use your hot wheels or match ...more
Rich, creamy chocolate cups stuffed with smooth, salty-sweet peanut butter in a bite-sized package—yep, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are an amazing fix for your sweet tooth at best, and a guilty pleasure at worst. It's easy enough to buy them on a whim at the local grocery store ...more
Aluminum foil is one of those things that every cook, experienced or just starting out, has in their kitchen. And while we may think we know how useful this handy material can be, there are hundreds of ways we could be utilizing tinfoil to make our lives a whole lot easier. 1 ...more
To prevent melted ice cream from leaking out of the pointy bottom of a cone, plug the hole up with a marshmallow before adding any ice cream on top. This will also give you a nice treat when you're almost finished, as the marshmallow will absorb some of the ice cream. Or, if ...more
Chances are that you've been using your microwave just to nuke leftovers, but they can do so much more than heat up last night's dinner—microwaves can help you peel garlic more quickly, get more juice out of lemons, disinfect your kitchen, dry out herbs, give beauty products n ...more
In my opinion, biscuits made from scratch (American biscuits, that is, not the British kind) are just flat out amazing, but I'm typically too lazy to actually make them. That's why I always have a can/tube of refrigerated biscuits on hand. They're not only good for quick biscu ...more
While I frown upon any form of uneaten cookie, sometimes we overestimate our late-night cravings for baked goods leaving us with extra cookie dough at 4 a.m. If you're in the privileged dilemma of not having enough excess dough to make another batch of cookies but just enough ...more
Charcloth is basically charred cloth (surprisingly enough) that doubles an an excellent tinder source for starting fires. This video will show you how to easily make charcloth out of an old t-shirt, a metal tin, and a fire. Now you'll be able to start fires much more easily at ...more
Continuing the theme of using a muffin pan to quickly whip up super-simple and super-delicious baked things (see Part 1: how to make mini-pies in muffin tins), how about making yourself a savory snack in the form of a pizza cupcake? Grab yourself some Pillsbury pizza crust in ...more
This tutorial shows you how to make some fun turkey crafts with your children. For young children, you can make a colorful turkey out of a paper cup, some paint, glue and construction paper. For older children, you can create a tin can turkey out of felt and some hot gule.
Are you struggling to get mom a unique gift this Mother's Day? Do you always get her flowers or chocolates? Break out of the "same old, same old" and make a decorative tin for mom shown here in this video. By picking up just a few materials from your local craft store, you'll ...more
Using the instructions on the MAKE blog (04/2008) We made this portable fume extractor for soldering. Works great at close proximity (2 inches). Note: We didn't screw down the voltage regulator, just stuffed it in the side. This will keep the fumes from seeping into your lun ...more
The individual foil sheets made them really easy to pull out.
Craving pie? Muffin-sized mini-pies are perfect for when you just want a couple bites for yourself. They are ridiculously easy to make, and take very little time. Using a muffin tin also gives you the luxury of creating multiple mini-pies with different fillings, which means y ...more
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Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to build a powerful pocket amplifier for your headphones out of a Altoids mint case. To make this contraption, you'll need a circuit board, jumpers, soldering tool, two 220 micro fahren caps, and two 10k resistors.