I saw this beautiful garden stool from Wisteria and totally fell in love with it. I am dying to add this piece to my living room and this beauty served as my source of inspiration for this easy project!
Project level: Easy
Time required: 1-2 hours, plus drying time
Materials: Recycled cardboard canisters
(formula, coffee, or iced tea cans work great!)
Duct tape
White acrylic paint
Paint brush
Newspaper
(or strips of fabric as found in this post)
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Glue sticks
Spray paint
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When I was planning Braden's first birthday party, I started saving some baby formula cans, knowing they might come in handy for a craft project! (And of course they did!) A few of you may remember seeing this "Seuss hat" lollipop stand at the party or in the party photos, which I constructed from three stacked cans that I duct taped, painted, and decorated as the cat's hat!
After the party, I still thought the cans could come in handy, so I removed the lollipops and red crepe paper stripes and decided to recycle it into a wastebasket for my office!
So...I bring you the embellished wastebasket!
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To make the "rosettes" I cut approximately 1 inch strips of newspaper and formed them into the flowers.
Using a hot glue gun, I attached the rosettes in a random pattern all over the cans. Just play around with it and try to fill in as much white space as possible.
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| Close up detail of painted flowers (another quick coat of paint would have provided even better coverage, but I was on borrowed time from Braden during his nap!) |
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Happy Crafting!!! :)
~D.
