Hello! In this video I'm collaborating with Karen Kavett to do a supply swap
challenge
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The challenge that we're doing is we are mailing eachother
five things from our own supply stash. These are things that we haven't really found the right
project for yet so we're sending these things to each other
we have no idea what they are we have to use at least
three of them in our own project. I've already mailed
my stuff out she's already mailed me hers and it's in my PO box
I need to go pick it up. If you've ever been curious if I have a PO box, I do.
It's always in my About section on my channel, I'll also put the address
in the description below. Don't feel obligated to send me stuff
It's just there if you want to. So I'm going to pick up the box
Got the package! There's a letter.
Says hello, here are your supplies for the rejected craft supply challenge
There's pearl beads.
Those are pretty! Foam stickers.
Gold and white buttons. I got a huge bag of
these buttons from the craft store at least five years ago
and I'm still sitting on most of them since I don't make
sweaters for grandmas
Oh, they are kinda grandma sweater buttons!
but they're kinda vintage
so they could still be cool. Grandma sweaters are cool...
Okay... vintage scrap paper
These are cool. Clear plastic tubing
I think I used this for a science project in the high school
and I'm still carrying a huge spool of it
every time I move. So here's the plastic tube
I don't know what I would do...
I need think about this... it'll be quite a challenge
good luck and also good luck reading my hand writing, Karen Kavett
My handwriting is bad
Yours is fine and it's colorful, that's fun to read.
there's some cool stuff in here Karen thank you
don't know what to make
I need to think about this one
and I'm going to come back to this and film a
project to make. After some thinking
I decided to make some pencil organizers so I saved three food cans
remove the labels and washed them out, then I went outside and covered them with an
anti-rust spray-paint in an aqua turquoise color
after a couple coats and some drying time I just dove in and started applying
karen's materials
I started with the vintage paper and this one I particularly liked because
the names
on it are strange in a funny way. I marked
and trimmed the paper to the size of the can and since it doesn't fit all the way
around
I used the scrap paper to fill in the rest. Then glued it on the can
and pressed it down with this rolling motion when thinking about that tube
material
I thought it would make a really good bumper for the bottom of the can
which stabilizes it on my desk. I just cut to size on the bottom
and put it on the bottom with a ring of superglue, now it's a cool vintage
organizer. For the next cans I decided to use this wood veneer material
I have a lot of this leftover from a tutorial I did but can Kin Community
you can check that out right here or see the description below. I wanted this one
to be simple so I wrapped it around the can
marked the measurement and cut it. Then glued it on
around the middle
and rolled it on the table to make sure the edges were pressed down
I was digging these peace sign foam stickers
so I stuck those on around the middle of the wood veneer
which turned out to be a cute in simple design. For this
taller can I decided to do the same process, mark the measurement
and cut the piece and use that measurement
to cut out another piece. I decided to stack these
so I glued one on and then the other
rolling out on the table to press the edges down
I wanted to make a design only on the wood part so I taped off
the color on the can and used karen's
leaf foam stickers to make a stencil I randomly placed them on
kinda making a design with the leaves toward the top added some of the flowers
that were also included
and then took it outside to spray paint that area gold
I had no idea how this would turn out but as I pulled the stickers off
I thought it turned out to be interesting with the different textures
some of the gold got onto the taped off areas
but overall I think it turned out to be a fancy pencil holder
I later glued on the tubing material to the bottom of these cans as well
this was a fun challenge
and it really got me to experiment and think a different ways to use these
materials
I'll definitely be using the other materials can send me for future
projects
and I can't wait to see what she did with the materials that I sent her
to see the project that Karen made for this challenge check out this video here
and while you're there subscribe to her channel. For another organizer project
check out this video here
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You can find all these links and more information in the video description
below
and while you're down there let me know what you think about the can organizers.
Is there a different approach you would have taken with the materials
or which one is your favorite let me know in the comments below