Monday, August 6, 2012

Monday Made It

This week I thought I'd join up with

Made It Monday


I use old tin cans for storing things like scissors,


and textas,


 and lead pencils, etc....


But for some reason I ended up storing the colored pencils like this ( in an old wipes container ):


   It has quite a lot of room in there, but yeah, makes it more difficult to see ALL the colors in there though.


So.....
I thought, I would decorate some new tins.

As you can see at the beginning of the post this is NOT a new craft for me ( I've had lots of practice in the past with making these ).  I currently have a number of tins decorated and in use.  LOL
But, I figured those pencils should get a new home~!!

So I picked out some super duper nice patterned paper and cut them to size.



 
Then I used my double sided tape ( that's a super power that I have ) and taped the paper to the tins.  Then I raided my ribbon stash and added a cute hot pink / polka dots strip to the tins as well. 


I must say, if you need a quick and easy project, this is it. It doesn't take long at all. And it's a bargain cost wise too.

Up close on two of them.


Then I took those pencils and popped them in.


Pencil Heaven. Well, almost. If I upgraded those pencils to my Prisma Colors - yes, then we could say Pencil Heaven. Although to be fair, those pencils are still pretty good. I don't skimp and save on pencils. I spend the money. Quality is a must.

 It sure beats how they were before the project.

AND it will be much easier for pencil selection now too.

Thanks for visiting.


4 comments:

  1. oh how pretty those cans are! I've said this before and I'll say it again, you are very clever! why don't I think of things like this lol!

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  2. Everything looks so cute....it's amazing what some cute paper can do!

    Brandi
    Success in Second Grade
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