Miniature Tin Ceiling Tiles

  Happy day my friends!  I haven't been able to decide what type of ceiling to put in my Apothecary.  Sometimes you just need to walk away and focus on something else for a bit and the answer will come to you.  I decided to try using heavy duty aluminum foil as tiles.  And lo and behold it worked!  The process was really fun and easy with very little waiting for glue to dry.  

First, I rounded up some jewelry findings (I don't know what else to call them).  I found one that I thought would be the perfect size (one inch across) and shape and hot glued it to a small piece of scrap chip board.   Then I cut pieces of heavy-duty aluminum foil into about two inch by two inch pieces.    

I placed a piece of foil on top of the jewelry piece and held it down kind of tight with one hand then pressed with my finger on top and also using some of my clay working tools to go around the piece to get as much detail as I could.   

Then I flipped each piece over and spread hot glue on the inverted side to fill the design.

I cut a piece of chip board to glue the pieces of foil to to make the ceiling.  I found this much easier than trying to glue each piece into the apothecary.  I wound up needing more tiles as I trimmed the foil and had to make more.  35 in total.

I glued each piece to the chip board with a dollop of hot glue.  After they were all in place, I used orange, brown and black acrylic paints to aged them up a bit.

I then cut and painted wooden skinny sticks to serve as the borders and glued them down using E6000 glue.

I gave the borders a coating of gloss ModPodge to finish them off then glued the whole thing into the box.  The whole shop is just a square box I have had for literally years.

And there you have it folks!  My "antique" tin (foil) ceiling!  Pretty easy and made for a fun afternoon!

Thank you for visiting!

XOXO ~Laurie