DIY Tin Can – Decor Craft Design

How To Make Tin Can Mini Spring Flower Cart

Flower cart is always a wonderful thing to see, especially a vintage look flower cart. Moreover if the cart filled with beautiful spring flowers, that would be a magical sight to watch. Since I don’t have any material to build a full size flower cart; I ended up making a Mini Spring Flower Cart from upcycling a square tin can. I had this idea circling around my mind for months and finally I get a time to finish it.

I made the Tin Can Mini Spring Flower Cart with trouble finding perfect things to create the cart handles and the wheels, because I insist to use things that physically resemble a handle and a wheel without changing it a bit. And also cheap and easy things to find. And luckily I found those things in a mini home depot; well, actually the bolt and nut is a pair that my husband always have; so the ring bolt that I found is the main treasure. I choose it because it’s looking very simple, just simply round. Okay, enough about my idealism, let’s start with how to make my flower cart!

Things To Prepared

Tin can in square shape
Bolt and nut (two pairs) / any shapes that looks like a pair of cart handle can be used
Ring bolt, any ring shape will do
White acrylic paint
Blue acrylic paint
Black marker
Glue

How To Make

Clean the square tin can and paint it with white acrylic paint.
Have the bolt + nut that will serve as the cart handle and the ring bolt as the cart wheels, sprayed in blue acrylic paint
Drill a hole to insert the bolt, ended with nut and secure it with glue so it won’t move. Make a pair of it to get the cart handle.
Glue the blue ring bolt to both of the side front of the flower cart.
Prepare a beautiful hand writing of “Spring Flowers” and write it on the both sides of the tin can spring flower cart by using a black marker.
Now your mini spring flower cart from upcycled tin can is ready to be added with lovely mini flowers. I used yellow and white Rose Moss.

Tips : You can use other mini flowers you like. The spring flower cart would look great with artificial flowers or as succulent mini pot holder too.

Interested to do a little crafty upcycling project? My Mini Spring Flower Cart from tin can would be a wonderful idea to try. Add more of your handmade spring decorations to your home. Or maybe as a DIY Mother’s Day Gift for your mom. Enjoy picking flowers you love for the mini flower cart, enjoy the spring bloom!

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Mel

DIY Spring Flower Tin Can Pot For Rose Moss

Social distancing by staying at home whole day for weeks can be boring and suffocated. Do a little gardening can be soothing and fun. Particularly when the work is done, your eyes will see only beauty which very relaxing. A little gardening can be only planting or arrange a little plant indoor or semi-outdoor. Like me, I made a DIY Spring Flower Tin Can Pot For Rose Moss to grow on my balcony. It’s an easy DIY of re-purposing tin can to plant a very easy but pretty flower; Sun Rose.

What is Ross Moss?

This tiny pretty flowers are commonly known as Ross Moss with its Latin name portulaca grandiflora. It also has other famous name; like ten o’clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, Vietnam Rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane. Ross mose is actually a succulent flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae; watch the leaves which have the same texture like succulent. It was originated from Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay.

It’s very easy to grow that almost like a weed. Ross moss needs lots of sunshine and it only blooms in the morning and start to withered on the afternoon. It’s a low maintenance flower plant, so it’s a great flowery plants to grow along pathway or garden. It also comes in wide variation of colors and petal shapes. My moss rose that I used is a five magenta petals.

Okay, since you have introduced with Rose Moss or some of you are already very familiar with this sunny flower. Now, I can start to write about how I make the Spring flower pot from tin can.

Things To Prepared

Most of the supplies I used was came from scraps I have. So, you probably would not able to replicate my pot exactly the same. But don’t worry, you can always use your available scraps and craft supplies at home to decorate this tin can pot, just let your creativity takes control. Anyway, things I used for this tin can flower pot DIY are

Shallow tin can (I used tuna can)
White spray paint
Old painted button
Burlap
Colored burlap rope
White knitting fabric ( I got it from my scrap fabrics)
Popsicle sticks
Black marker
White gelly roll pen
Glue
Hot glue

How To Make

It’s not a difficult Spring DIY with easy supplies. Take a look at the picture and follow the tutorial.

Get the shallow tin can and clean it. Make some holes on the bottom can. Tuna can is perfect for this re-purposing project.
Spray paint the tin can with white color. Let it dry.
Take your burlap and cut it an half wide of the tuna can height. Glue the cut burlap around the painted tin can.
Use a creme colored burlap rope and tie the tin can pot around three times. Secure the rope edges with glue in the middle front. It will be covered by the button ornament.
Take a square white knitting fabric and glue it to cover the rope’s ending.
The painted button was an old clear button that I have painted in pink, roughly. Use the button to finish the spring flower pot.
For the Spring Sign, use some popsicle sticks to form a rectangle sign with a stick.
Paint the sign with black marker and write the word Spring by using white gelly roll pen. Plug the Spring Sign on the Sun Rose tin can pot. And your DIY tin can pot is ready for the flower you desired and mine is Rose Moss.

Wouldn’t you just love to see the Rose Moss blooming in the morning? Especially when you grow them in front of your windows. Beautiful sight to enjoy in this middle of Covid-19 horror. Well, a little Spring craft will add more boredom killer for staying at home and your home would look springy with flowers on the pots. Therefor, save your tin cans and be creative with it!

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Mel

DIY Spring Lace Tin Can Mug Flower Vase

DIY Spring Lace Tin Can Mug Flower Vase

Like I have mentioned before on my post DIY Easy Succulent Pot Holder that I made from upcycling tin can, I have lots of ideas on how to make use of the tin can. So here is my other diy tin can creation, a spring lace tin can mug flower vase.

There are things that you need to prepare for this diy spring lace tin can mug flower vase. :

Used tin can (I got it from canned food)
Blue spray paint
Lace
Drawer’s handle
Glue
Screw and bolt

Now, let’s check out these easy steps to upcycling tin can into a spring lace mug flower vase :

Clean the used tin can properly and spray paint it with blue. Leave it dry.
Glue a lace on top and below the tin can mug. Let it dry.
Screw the drawer handle to the tin can mug and secure it with bolt.
Put some flowers to the tin can mug that serves as a flower vase. There you go, your diy lace flower tin can mug vase for spring decoration is ready.

More flowers on your home would reflect spring, pair it with spring colors decoration and you will have it perfect spring decor. So, my lace tin can mug flower vase is great diy for spring decor. For more spring DIYs, please follow me, it’s great to share and inspires!

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Welcoming spring creativity!

Mel

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Craft Rocket Challenges – Flowers
A Perfect Time To Craft – Anything goes
Get Creative – Anything But A Card
Love To Craft – Anything Goes
Altered Eclectics – Anything Goes
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A Bit More Time To Craft – Anything Goes

DIY Easy Succulent Pot Holder From Upcycling Tin Can

DIY Easy Succulent Pot Holder From Upcycling Tin Can

I always like tin cans, I don’t know why, whether it’s from soft drinks, canned foods, biscuits, tall, small, big, short; I just love it! It’s like you can turn those tin cans into really cool and beautiful stuff that is useful and functional in the same time. And sometimes, the tin can itself has already looks good without having it dressed up. This is the first time I ever posted a upcycling tin can into DIY easy succulent pot holder; which I’m sure and have so many other ideas of what to do with used cans.

Here we go with the things that you need to prepare for doing the diy succulent pot holder from upcycling tin can :

Used tin can (short type, I got it from canned food)
White spray paint
Blue (mixed) acrylic paint
paint brush
Organic rope
Thin balsa wood
Drawing pen

And let’s go through the easy steps to upcycling tin can into diy succulent pot holder :

Clean the used tin can properly and spray paint it with white. Leave it dry.
Paint the upper and lower tin can with blue paint in stripe. Let it dry.
Cut thin balsa wood in rectangle shape to used as a tag to the pot holder.
Paint the balsa tag with white paint effortless. Let it dry. Paint it again with blue paint for the sentiment area.
Write the word “succulent” on the blue area of the white-painted balsa tag with drawing pen.
Glue an organic rope bow on top of the succulent tag. let it dry.
Glue the succulent tag to the painted tin can pot holder. Let it dry.

One of the great way to be friendly with nature is to do a upcycling, repurposing, and recycling; make a “trash” into something useful and beautiful. As me, I like to turn it into home decoration or any other handicraft. It’s also pocket friendly, which is favorite for any housewife. 🙂 So, please enjoy and inspired by my diy succulent pot holder from upcycling tin can.