Upcycled - Repurposed

The other day I emptied the little bucket that my dishwasher detergent pods come in and decided to try to upcycle it.

I have been trying to find a better way to store my ink refills that looked better than this:

 

Can you see the little buggers sticking their heads out of the drawer?

 

 

The labels on the container are printed directly onto the plastic bucket and the only way to remove the handle is to cut it off and have no handle so I decided to work around the handle by incorporating the color of the handle in my paint and ribbon. I was able to fit more than just my ink refills in, a couple of stamp sets that I was having trouble fitting in anywhere as well as a couple of small cans of spray paint.

 

I started by giving the bucket surface a coat of Paint Adhesion Medium. Then I sponged two different browns, orange and yellow paints onto the bucket. The green dots were added using a Q-tip. After coating with 2 coats of Mod Podge, I cut the lettering out of vinyl with my Cricut and the Cricut Font and Basic Shapes cartridge. First I went around the outside with a brown Cricut pen then I cut the letters out.



My bucket is now full and a once messy corner of my craft room is a bit neater thanks to this little bucket.

Why did I put the orange rick rack over my green ribbon? Because I didn't have a wide enough ribbon of any color so I ran the green around the top twice and used the rick rack to cover the seam. I used some hemp rope around the upper edge.

I am entering this project into this challenge:

Connie Can Crop - Challenge #52 - Pumpkin Spice

Jo's Scrap Shack DT Call

Today I am applying to become a member of Jo's Scrap Shack DT. If you are interested in applying, here is the link with all of the information:  Jo's Scrap Shack DT Call

For my project I went way off of the page and upcycled an old coffee pot to create a home décor item.

 

The first step was to cover the entire coffee pot with a coat of Paint Adhesion Medium.

 

 

This step insures that your paint will stick to the glass and not lift off.

 

I used a sponge to apply the paint to the pot and when the paint was dry I added a coat of Craft Twinkles which you can kind of see in this picture.

 

 



I used an ek Success punch to create the flowers and a couple of dies to cut the leaves.

 

Wish me luck with the DT call.

 





 

Upcycled Bottle

Blog Quick Quotes is having an upcycle challenge this month. I had this empty bottle to play with and had a lot of fun playing with it.

 

Acrylic paint doesn't stick real well to glass on it's own so I asked my BFF Renee who is a decorative painter, designer, etc. over at Plum Purdy  (she owns it too) how to get around that and she told me that I needed to first put a coat of paint adhesion medium on the bottle. She very kindly sent me a bottle from her inventory.

 

After sponging the medium on, I made puddles of purple, cream, blue and sunflower paints and sponged them on in a bit of a mish mash. When that coat dried I went over it again with the blue and cream then again with the purple and cream paints.

 

When the paint was dry I added a layer of Mod Podge then added some bling from Zva Creative, flowers from Queen and Co. and a bow using ribbon from my stash.

 

The flowers were cut using Cricut's Mother's Day cartridge, I hot glued them to floral wire and added some leaves I cut using one of my punches.

 

I am entering this project into this challenges:

 

Blog Quick Quotes Challenge #64.

Jo's Scrap Shack #144 - Anything Goes.