Altered Paint Can
Karen Gibson
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced
Stamping Team Designer
These
cans would be great for Christmas, baby showers, wedding, and birthday. There is
no end of what you can put in them! Paint cans may be purchased at your local
Paint/Hardware store or Home Improvement store. Ask for the paint can opener
when you purchase the can. Most places will give you the opener for free. The
gallon cans are 2 to 3 dollars each. You can use one piece of cardstock to cover
the can instead of two different colors. I used white butcher paper to cover the
quart size paint can. If you want something stronger to hold the cardstock to
the paint can try spray adhesive or run the cardstock through a Xyron machine. I
have done all of these with good results. This altered can project shows items
that I stamped to place inside as a gift. The candle ring and card match the
stamps on the outside of the can.
Supplies:
•
Carved & Candlelit Stamp
set (Stampin’ Up!)
• Pattern
Print Background Stamp (Stampin’ Up!)
• Pumpkin Pie
Classic dye ink (Stampin’ Up!)
• Old Olive
Classic dye ink (Stampin’ Up!)
• Really Rust
Classic dye ink (Stampin’ Up!)
• Very
Vanilla Cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
• Pumpkin Pie
Cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
• Old Olive
Cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
• Gallon
Paint can, and paint can opener
• 1” Circle
hole punch
• Double
sided tape
• Compass
• Ribbon
Instructions:
1.
Remove handle from paint can and set aside.
2.
Cut two pieces of vanilla cardstock 3 ½” x 10 ¾”. Measure
approximately 1-1/8” down from the short sides. Use the circle punch to make the
openings for the handle. Do not punch the complete width of the circle punch.
Punch about ¾ of the punch. See diagram for placement and measurements.
3.
Stamp prepared vanilla cardstock using Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust and Old
Olive ink. On the sample, I inked the pumpkin with Pumpkin Pie and then rolled
the inked stamp just along the edges in Really Rust before stamping it on the
cardstock. This rolling technique adds depth the image.
4.
Cut Pumpkin Pie cardstock 10 ¾” x 4 ¼”. Stamp background image using
Pumpkin Pie ink.
5.
Use double stick tape to adhere stamped vanilla cardstock to top of can.
Add the stamped pumpkin pie cardstock around the bottom of the can. 
6.
Reattach the handle to the paint can. Wrap a ribbon around the handle;
attach the paint can opener to it.
7.
With the compass make a 5 3/8” circle using Pumpkin Pie cardstock, stamp
with Pumpkin Pie ink using background image. Stamp pumpkin on vanilla cardstock
and layer it to Old Olive. Adhere to stamped circle. Use double stick tape and
place on can lid.
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