How Do Witches Quench Their Thirst When They're the Designated Flyer?

After making my Book of Spells I decided to "spookify" a few other things, including our daughter's empty soft drink can. This was a lot of fun and I had all the supplies on hand. I hope you like it!
Supplies:


1 Empty, plain, unmagical soft drink can


A small piece of burlap


Thumb tacks


Hot glue


Paint


Nail polish


Pepper (ha! Didn't expect that one, huh?)


A foam sheet


Tools:


Hot glue gun


Paintbrushes


Step 1


-Clean the inside of the can and dry. This doesn’t seem like a big deal until you wake up some morning and find a bunch of ants in your house… so if you don’t clean out the can, don’t go blaming me for that!
-Glue the burlap onto the can using your favourite adhesive, I used hot glue. Don’t, I repeat, DO NOT make it perfect. That’s what makes this project so cool and interesting. On my first attempt, I did not put the burlap high enough so I ended up adding a strip to the top, you can see this in some of the following images...
-I added several rows of foam sheets to the top and the bottom of the can.
-Next I painted the top of the can with gray acrylic paint. Actually, if you want to know the truth, and you probably do, I used white acrylic paint with a drop of black.


-Now, I already had it in my head that I wanted this to look kind of creepy so I decided that I needed to add some pepper to the top of my can.
-Finally, I added some thumbtacks because, well, it needed it.
Step 2


-With this project, like so many of my others, I used a little bottle of that craft paint that you find at the dollar store, Walmart, wherever. I painted the entire can black and let it dry. Then I took some of the leftover gray paint that I made and dry brushed.


-I also wanted the can to look a little messy so I added hot glue to the top and let it drip down the sides.


-I then painted the hot glue with about three different shades of glitter nail polish until I got the look I wanted.
If you like this tutorial you can find more Halloween tutorials on my website, come check it out already, you're not getting any younger!


http://hotglueinmycoffee.com/witchs-dew/
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