Hey, friends, I'm glad you stopped by! I want to let you in on a little secret......I love tin cans! I use them in my workroom to hold paint brushes, scissors, pencils, glue sticks and so much more.
BEFORE:
Tin cans are made to hold liquid, so they are perfect to use as a vase. Today I want to show you how I used two tin cans to make one vase with an antique finish.
This is how I turned two into one
BEFORE:
I started with Two Empty Soup Cans
A Basic Can Opener is the only tool I used for this project.
I took the bottom off one of the cans with the can opener
Now I have a cylinder
Now it is one tall vase
To give it an antique look...I used a foam brush and gave it several coats of black craft paint. I mixed and layered different craft paint colors. I used: black, burnt umber, turquoise & gold metallic craft paint.
I made stencils by cutting numbers off a tag. (The kind you get when you service your car) I painted the back of the numbers gray and pressed them on the can and peeled them off. I used a thin paintbrush to fill in the empty spaces.
I love how the cotton spray stems look in the vase!! The stems come in a set of three and you can purchase them at Wayfair.com.