Hello Youtube friends welcome to my channel if you're new here my name's Deidre from our upcycled
life and I do lots of thrifting repurposing and diy content if you're interested in that I upload
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notifications so you don't miss any great content today I took three tin cans and I repurposed them
up cycled them and made them really pretty with simple easy techniques so I'm going
to show you today how I did them you probably already have all the stuff
in your craft room or in your craft supplies to do it super simple super easy let's get at it
i saved three tin cans out of my recycling bin the lids are taken off the top but I've left the
bottoms in them because I'm going to turn them into planters I'm going to give them one good
coat of my homemade chalk paint this stuff adheres really well to the tin cans if you just put latex
paint on it won't stick very well so you can either use chopping or you can also use acrylic
paint it sticks quite well to the tin I'll put a link down below and up above here for my chalk
paint recipe it is fabulous okay for the first tin can I am going to decoupage on some paper towel
I've just cut them in strips and I'm going to use my mod podge mat and just cover the whole tin can
in these strips of paper towel you don't have to be precise about it just cover the whole tin can
and make sure you use quite a bit of the mod
podge when you're applying it so it sticks really well to the tin can
okay I've got it all covered and you can see it just kind of softens up the ribs in the tin can
for the second tin can I am going to use my texture paste i have a recipe that I just did
a video on again I'll put a link down below in the description and up above here and it creates
amazing texture on um any sort of surface glass or wood or metal and it's a really easy recipe I'm
just using a credit card to spread it all over the tin can almost gives it like a stucco look
and you can just slop it on you don't have to be precise with it if you mix up this recipe and
you find that it's maybe not quite thick enough you can always add a little bit more baking soda
you don't want it to be runny and not some stick on your tin can really well so just see how it
works for you and you can always add a little bit more if you need to now you can leave it as is
just as it is right now but I think I want to put a little bit of a swirl texture in it
so I'm just using the end of a paint brush and I'm just creating swirls in that texture paste
and I think it'll give it a really neat effect
and just take your end of your paint brush and swirl it right down into the bottom of
that texture paint on the tin can and you can do swirls you can do lines you can do um you can use
stamps and stamp into the texture paste just use your imagination and what you would like
and I think this effect looks really cool I love it
okay for my third tin can I'm going to use some air dry clay this stuff is really cool
to work with the first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to form it into a ball
and then roll it out on some parchment paper and I want it about a quarter of an inch thick if you've
never worked with air dry clay you need to grab some because it's so cool to work with there's
so many things that you can make with it and you'll be obsessed once you start using it okay
i want to cut some strong squares so I'm using a ruler that I had a metal ruler and it's actually
the exact size that I wanted my little squares to be so I'm cutting a bunch of stripes down
the same width of the ruler and then i am going to take those strips and cut them into squares
and they don't have to be perfect or the exact same size i want them to be kind of rustic looking
and I've got all my squares cut out and i want to have them kind of look
like a brick texture so i had this doily I'm going to take my rolling pin
and just very lightly roll that doily into those little squares to give it a real textured look
and that's exactly what I was looking for I wanted to have kind of a mortar brick look
and now I'm just taking my hot glue gun these haven't dried they're still
wet um they will dry once I get them on my tin can and I let them sit overnight but for
now I'm just going to take my hot glue gun I'm using the gorilla hot glue which works
really well for this and just gluing them in a brick light pattern all over the tin can
and when I was gluing those on I lost some of the texture so I'm just taking the doily and
just kind of dabbing over those just to give it a little bit more of a textured look again
and I'm going to roll out some of the air dry clay
I just want to put some along the top of the rim of the jar and along the bottom
okay and now we're back to the decoupage tin can that I was doing with the paper towel
so I'm going to put a second layer on and I'm going to scrunch up my paper towel
put it right in that mod podge and then just kind of place it on the tin can
just all wrinkly and kind of bubbly and you want a lot of texture in it
I love you using paper towel to decoupage with all
the different brands have so many different textures and
designs on them and they're all different so just play around with it and just slop it on
okay so all tin cans are all done they're ready to be painted so I'm going to let
them sit overnight and I'll be back tomorrow and we'll finish them off
okay tomorrow they're all dry and I'm just spraying the inside just with
some white spray paint just so they look finished and a little bit nicer
I'm going to work on the air dry clay pot first and I'm just taking some of my terra cotta paint
this is just a latex paint that I had and I'm just kind of almost like a dry brush
brushing over all of those little tiles I want to have this have a real terracotta feel
and now I'm going to work away at the swirled pattern and I'm just layering a whole bunch of
different colors on this just with a dry brush technique until I get the actual
color that I like and I'm just kind of layering all kinds of different
colors no real rhyme or reason just until I'm happy with the way it looks
and I'm doing all this just with my acrylic paint that I have
and this turquoise blue is the perfect color to finish this off i
love this and I'm going to put some twine on the top and the bottom
and now I'm just going to put some off-white acrylic paint all over that paper towel
decoupage to tin can and it's going to have a real plaster kind of stucco look
and that looks so cool I love the texture of this now I'm kind of jumping all over here I
hope you can kind of follow through but I'm just dry brushing a little bit of white acrylic paint
all over those little pieces of air dry clay squares just so i can give it a real kind of
aged terracotta look and using my 120 grit sanding block to finish it off
and i thought these really needed some little feet so I had some wooden beads
I'm just hot gluing them onto the bottom and all finished and I missed filming but
i took these outside and I gave them all a spray with poly acrylic sealer
so if you have any tin cans in your recycling bin grab them and get creating they make perfect gifts
they make perfect planters you can put pens and pencils in them
you can put them in your kitchen for utensils so many um so many things
that you can do with them let me know down in the comments which one's your favorite
and if you've ever tried the texture paste or if you've worked with air dry clay let me know
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