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Altered artists love to play with shiny things! Here are some ideas for incorporating metal into your work.

Make some cool stuff from metal flashing.

Here’s a quick lesson on how to beat those bottle caps into shape.

Recycle your frozen juice lids into all sorts of clever art items.

Here are three ways of turning empty candy tins into alterable surfaces.

Use alcohol inks on metal to create an interesting effect.

Here’s a simple method for embossing craft metal.

Curious about gold leaf? Try this lesson on working with its less expensive cousin.

Here’s a quick lesson on turning Altoids tins into ornaments or shrines.

Here’s how to turn the surface of just about anything that hold still long enough into lovely, mellow gold.