DIY Concrete Vases [from tin cans]

Well, if y'all stopped past times yesterday for the Create With Me link up, thus y'all know that I created these DIY Concrete Vases for the challenge! You voted for me to piece of occupation tin cans, as well as I rose to the challenge! You tin dismiss destination past times the Create With Me party correct directly to vote on what nosotros volition DIY amongst this month! Can’t hold back to run into what y'all chose for me! In the meantime, come upwards inwards as well as run into how I made these smashing organizational vases for my arts and crafts space.

The textile listing gets a fleck hefty, but I’m SO happy amongst the results!

Materials:

Tin cans

Plastic containers (smaller than tin cans)

Drill

Screws

Concrete mix

WD-40

Dremel (with metallic blade)

Pliers

Clear Gloss Spray Paint

Paint

Silver Leaf Pen

Always piece of occupation proper security gear!

Start past times drilling a hole inwards the bottom on your tin cans, as well as thus your plastic containers. You desire to chose plastic containers to become within that volition live higher than the tin cans. Plastic containers are pliable, as well as slowly to take in i lawsuit the concrete sets. I used onetime sprinkle containers!

Next, screw into the bottom of the tin cans as well as the plastic containers. I screwed into the tin tin dismiss first, as well as thus twisted the plastic onto the screw past times hand. You desire to brand certain that in that place is but about infinite betwixt the bottom of the plastic as well as the bottom of the tin tin dismiss thus that a thick plenty layer of concrete tin dismiss sit down inwards between.

Next, nosotros sprayed the within of the cans as well as plastic amongst WD-40. You bespeak something that volition destination the concrete from sticking to the tin as well as plastic. This materials is heavy duty as well as definitely did the trick.

Next y'all desire to mix the concrete amongst H2O (as per the pocketbook instructions) as well as gain total inwards the infinite betwixt your plastic as well as tin cans. Then exit it for close a calendar week thus that the concrete has fourth dimension to set.

When y'all come upwards dorsum to your piece, y'all volition live anxious to run into if it worked, but live patient! Concrete tin dismiss crevice if y'all are fossil oil amongst it! First take the plastic slice within past times peeling it away gently amongst your pliers. Don’t live afraid to curvature the plastic! Then larn your dremel out (with a metallic blade) as well as cutting a take business downwards the side of the tin tin dismiss as well as the bottom, until the tin dismiss pops off of the concrete (see below).

Use pliers to delineate the tin away as well as y'all are left amongst a lovely concrete vase!

We used a clear gloss spray over the containers to protect them from life on my arts and crafts tabular array earlier I painted them.

Finally, I painted strips on my concrete vases i at a fourth dimension using my Americana Decor Chalky Finish paint.

When the pigment was done, I loved the look, but I felt it was missing something. I searched my arts and crafts infinite as well as constitute my beautiful silverish leafing pen, which I used to depict a business betwixt the 2 pigment colours.

Now let’s all gush over the beauty of these vases…. lol.

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