Upcycled Formula Tin Organiser Tutorial

A CRAFT A DAY 2013

DAY 2

Well here we are on day 2!

 I never thought I was going to make it, after 3 hours sleep due to my discontent children (bless their little cotton socks!). An eight hour work day, a busy evening mooching round the Hobby Craft Sales with my four year old daughter (who came back with an enviable supply of crafting goods courtesy of her Christmas money) a trip to my sisters house to meet her new dog Oscar... well can we just say I'm gob smacked that I managed to do this as well today. 

So without further a do please read on for my second craft tutorial of the year!

Upcycled Baby Formula Tin Desktop Organiser

 

Materials: 

Patterned Paper
Pen
Glue Gun
Scissors
Baby Formula Tins
Ruler

STEP 1:

Measure the width of the strips of paper you need using the tin itself. Draw marks at intervals along the paper.
 

STEP 2:

Once you have the marks join them up using your ruler. 

STEP 3: 

Now cut along the line, this will leave you with a strip of paper big enough to wrap around your tin.

 

 

 

 STEP 4:

Using the hot glue gun stick the paper down once you have wrapped it around the tin.

STEP 5:

Now turn your tin upside down and glue around the bottom edge to fix the paper to the can so that they don't slip apart. Repeat steps 1-5 for all the tins you will be using to make your pyramid

STEP 6:

Stick your bottom row of tins together with a line of hot glue. they will not be very steady at this point, but don't worry we are going to make them more stable as we go along!

STEP 7:

Turn the row of tins around where the bases of the tins meet you need to use the glue gun to seal over this join. This make your structure far more stable.

STEP 8:

Put one of the next row of tins in its position and mark the points where this tin touches the bottoms tins. Use these marks as a guide for where to put a line of hot glue, then before it cools stick on your next tin. Repeat this process for all the remaining tins.

Don't forget that after you have glues the tins together you need to turn it to the back once again and glue all the connecting points of the tins together as you did before. Now you should have a stable tin organiser that has plenty of room for anything you like... in my case PENS!!!

Now you can make this as big as you like with anywhere from three tins to a ten tier pyramid! (although you may need a rather large desk to put it on!) You can even use any sized tins you like large office sized coffee tins, small tomato puree sized tins... the only limitation is (as it is with any craft) your mind!

Please comment on this blog and let me know what you think! Every ones views are welcome. Have you had a go at this project? Or have you got any questions? If you have please get in touch!

E-mail     upcyclingbritain@hotmail.co.uk
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I will see you here tomorrow for our next craft... and its even going to be a surprise for me... my daughter has told me she is showing me it. Yes she is 4 (going on 40!).

Now I am ever so sorry to leave you but it's beddy byes for me now... my lids are closing as we speak... *snore...*