The first thing I did was file any sharp edges on the cans and then spray painted them.
Upcycled Tuna Can Ornaments
5 Materials
$1
30 Minutes
Easy
For me, my favorite part of Christmas is all the preparations, especially the crafting. I love to make my own decorations and ornaments from the stuff around me. Last year I made some cool ornaments out of repurposed eyeglasses (see here). This year I used some tuna tin cans.
Next, I made a cork base for the inside of the tuna cans. I just used an old IKEA cork trivet for this.
I love to craft with old dictionary papers. The pages make very affordable craft paper and you get a lot pages in a dictionary. Like maps dictionaries go out of date and can be picked up for pennies at your local thrift/charity stores if you don't have one at home.
I decoupaged the inside of the can with the dictionary paper.
I gave the outside of the tin cans a more festive look, by decoupaging it with old Christmas gift wrap scraps.
My blog is full of wonderful vintage images, for this craft I decided to focus on butterflies. You can download for three two sheets of butterfly images for this craft.
I chose a butterfly for each tin can and carefully cut them out with a papercraft knife.
I then used specimen pins to mount the butterfly inside the tin can.
I made three of these tin can butterfly ornaments. You can find a lot more free vintage images to use here.
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Liberty Brammeron Nov 23, 2020What a cute project!
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Claire at Pillarboxblueon Nov 23, 2020Thank you 😊
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Deborah Mazac Richardsonon Nov 29, 2020Clever! I will make some using cat food cans (lighter weight than the tin tuna cans) and do some paper cats or kittens inside. Thanks for the great idea! These are very pretty. ☺️
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Where do you get the specimen pins?
You don't have to use the pins, use a wine cork cut to fit.
Tuna cans? The smell never comes out.
Soak in bleach water or vinegar water.
Where is the picture of the finish project?
The last picture contains 3 final tuna can ornaments. If you visit the blog post there are a lot more photos too.