I need to start the class a little early, because something came up and I have to take off in a little bit, but I will walk you through it and then I'llbe back later this evening to answer any questions that you might have! Sound good? Great let's get going....
Class:
Gift in a can... Hybrid or Paper altered pop-top cans!
Objective: To demonstrate a fun way to wrap a special gift for the hoildays
Directions:
- Your Pop-top can should be opened from the bottom, cleaned, washed, and dried. Measure the height and width of your can. These will be your dimensions for your digital design.
- You can paint the edges with acrylic paint or leave them plain. In my finished shot you will see some that I left plain and others I painted.
- Now while your paint is drying you can create the digital print you would like to place on your can. Take your measurements and make a new blank file using your measurements adding on about 1/4 inch so that the edges will overlap when wrapped around the can. For my 18.8 oz soup can I measured it 10 inches tall and 4.76 inches wide. The Iayered some patterned papers that I thought looked good together. Open a new blank file and make it 8.5 x 11 inches. (This will be the document that you actually print out.) Flatten your first image and drag and drop it onto the 8.5 x 11 file. This allows you to keep the same measurements, but print out on a standard peice of paper. Then you can also place the elements that you want to decorate your can with on the first image (soup can one), resize them (so you know how they will look when printed out) , and then drag and drop onto the 8.5 x 11.
- Print out your digital designs and trim and ink edges.
- Adhere your printed digital design to your can when the ink and (optional paint) are dry.
- The embellish with other digital elements and flowers, rhinestones, buttons, etc. For my digital images below (ornament and "Holly Jolly" saying) I attached them to my can using Glue-Dot Pop Dots, to give them that extra 3-D pop!
I attached my flowers with Glue-Dot minis.
- Gently lift the pop-top on the top of the can and slide ribbon underneath it.
- Add lots of ribbon and fibers, now we're having fun!!!
- Once you have finished embellishing your can, take your glue gun and run a think bead of glue all the way around just barely on the inside of the can. This will act as a "shelf" for the lid to rest on when you glue it shut and it will also show you how full you can fill your can since you should not go above the bead of glue.
- Now you need to decide what you want to fill your gift can up with. For these cans, I decided to get gift cards and also fill them with Christmas candies. I used Kraft Paper shreds (that I bought at the dollar store) to fill the empty space. You could also use tisse paper, or nothing at all. I made digital gift card holders that you can check out here for even MORE gift personalization.
- Now you are ready to "seal" the can! I took my glue gun and placed the lid on top of the dried glue bead shelf that I made before I filled my can and then made a very thick glue bead/stream all the way around the can to seal it closed.
- Enjoy your gift giving...These will be a hit! I promise.
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