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Marbled Soup Can Canister Tutorial

November 12, 2019 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

Do you love recycling trash into treasures as much as we do!?

Art doesn’t have to be expensive. Using things you might normally throw away as art supplies is one way to create in an inexpensive way! Soup cans are one of our favorite recycling materials to repurpose into a fun craft. It is sturdy and strong and be a great base for something else.

Today, we are excited to show you how you can turn those cans into marbleized storage canisters.

The first step is to collect your soup cans. We have gotten in the habit of just saving all our soup cans, so when a project idea arises, we are ready with cans on hand. I take the paper wrapper off our soup cans and run them through the dishwasher with our dishes to get clean. Once you have your dry cans, you are ready to create! We spray painted our cans white to have a nice matte base coat for this project. While the tin cans were drying, we collected our spray paint cans and filled a bucket with water. For each can, we choose two different spray paint colors. We added one color at a time.

All you have to do is spray the water with your spray paint color. The spray paint sits on top of the water. You then lay the can on top of the water and the paint will adhere to the can like a sticker might grab onto your hand. After one color was added, we simply looked at the can, maybe rotated it a little to figure out what side needed some more color, and did this step again with the second color of paint.

The can comes out of the water looked marbleized and super fun! After you get the hang of it, you can play with how much spray paint you spray on top of the water to create a more thick or less thick look on your can. We had so much fun doing all four of our cans that we prepped!

After the cans were dry, we used ours to hold art supplies. You could do the same or turn it into something else! A wind chime, flower pot, vase, or candle holder are fun ways to use your new canister too. You can personalize this craft using colors that fit your taste or the size can that fits your need best.

Sometimes it is easier to understand the steps to a project to see it actually happen. To see this craft in video form, you can watch the process on our YouTube channel here.

We love how quick, colorful, process art base, and inexpensive this paint technique can be! We had so much fun doing it to the tin cans that we bought some inexpensive raw wood candle sicks to paint this way too!

How fun are those!? We think they look like they belong on shelves in World Market or Anthropologie. We found some white candle sticks that make the colors pop even more, and we are going to use them as Christmas presents for family this year!

What do you think!? Will you try this paint technique? Do you like making Christmas gifts too!? We’d love to hear from you! Find us on social media by tagging us with your pictures #spoonfulofimagination

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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The Summer Wedding Gift Guide

June 13, 2016 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

Summer is here. With summer can come a string of wedding invites. There is something pretty special about two lives coming together to become one.

I love celebrating weddings. I went to one a few weeks ago that my husband officiated, and I was sitting there one proud wife. Weddings are special….and the new life of a couple starting a new season of together is pretty incredible. They should be celebrated. (please note: you can click any image for more details about that item)

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In the morning, when I riseWhen it comes to gift giving, I love to give handmade gifts. I love the time the gift shows with having either made it myself, or the thoughtfulness of finding it from another small crafter that screamed “them” to me. If you really think of the couple’s taste/style and nail it, these gifts often go the distance with the couple rather than something that breaks down or loses value as style changes. These gifts show thought.

A few questions to ask yourself when considering buying a handmade item or making one as part of a wedding gift:

  1. What is their style? Funky, vintagy, simple, colorful, etc.
  2. What do they like to do? Hike, travel, camp, host parties, etc.
  3. What are they about? People, serving, traveling, landscaping, etc.

If you look at the couples gift registry, you can also get ideas for what they like. Speaking of registries, those are important too because obviously it gives you an idea of what the couple needs. That’s why I love to pair either an item from their registry with a handmade gift or a gift card to a place they registered. In this simple way, you are getting them something they need/want, yet something fun that reminds you of them. It’s like a paycheck with a bonus.

For me, signs and embroidery hoops are a few crafts that I love to use as part of my gift.

courage_wood_signIf you sew, it could be a quilt. When Matt and I got married we were given pillow cases embroidered with our initials. It was pretty special.

We had friends that were real trendy and loved to cook, so I made a memo board out of an old frame and chicken wire for their kitchen. They were able to clip recipes, shopping lists, and anything else to it.

You could paint a flower pot for their new home with the house number on it.

You could get a mug made with one of their first pictures on it and pair it with coffee items on the registry.

There are so many possibilities! Use your imagination and think of the couple. Summer nights are a great time to create a gift. But let’s be honest, sometimes you love the couple, have great intentions to be crafty, but things get busy and life happens. If you need a few quick ideas for a gift, there may just be a few in my shop. Click any image to be directed to more details about that item.

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love_is_patientHappy wedding season! Marriage can be hard. Celebrating the wedding day is amazing…but continuing to celebrate and nourish their love way past the wedding day is way more important than one day in the scheme of a lifetime. May we all have eyes to encourage those young and old marriages around us. Marriage is a gift!

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The Perfect Newborn Burp Cloth (tutorial)

February 3, 2014 By Erica Deuel 6 Comments

DIY_burp_clothsSo many cute things come with babies.

Cute clothes. Cute blankets. Cute bedding. Cute noises. Cute faces. And ohhh the cute baby chub! All my babies had some sweet wrinkles. Loved it. One thing that is NOT so cute about babies is all the stuff that comes out of them. Their mouths for one can leave spit up that smells, stains, and is slimy yuck.

It’s part of the deal though, so we handle it. When I had my Reagan, I came up with this simple flannel burp cloth that I love. It is all I used with her. They still look beautiful today too. She uses them as blankets for her baby dolls.

Three years later, I am still making these burp cloths. Not for my Reagan anymore, but as baby shower presents. They are one of my favorite gifts to give new moms.

I’m going to show you the basic steps for how to create these burp cloths and then give you a few more reasons why I love them (as well as tell you some other baby items that I love to make and give).

When I find a flannel I love, I usually buy a yard regardless. But if you want to make one burp cloth, ask for 1/3 of a yard. I think that size makes a nice fat burp cloth. So many burp cloths are too thin or too short and don’t do the job of protecting you from mayhem.

flannel projectI then iron all around my 1/3 of a yard fabric. I fold about 1/4″ to 1/2″ seem down and iron it to hold it in place. I then fold the fabric over in half and pin all the way around it.

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DIY flannel burp clotheI simply sew around the edge of the now rectangle shape two times. There are foots that you can put on most sewing machine that will sew two lines at once. I just sew around two times. You can also personalize your burp cloth by adding a shape or an initial to sew on as well.

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sewing_a_burpclothAfter you sew everything in place and remove the pins, it is done! I think this project is so simple, yet a fun way to give a personalized gift. There are so many different flannel patterns available to give this simple project different looks. You can get fun colorful patterns or basic geometric modern styles. Whatever your taste or the theme of a baby shower may be! Of course, I am always drawn to the bright colorful fabrics! 🙂

DIY_flannel_burp_clothsI think this burp cloth is the perfect burp cloth. The fabric is so soft. It is very absorbent. Here is the best part! The bright colors and patterns hide stains! So often the popular white cloth diaper type burp cloths get stained and gross. These flannel burp cloths hide all that and are more forgiving.

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handmade_baby_presentI love to add a few personalized homemade items to my baby shower gifts. I usually get something off the registry and then make a few things to go with it. Some of my favorite items to make are fun gift bags, chiffon flowers for the perfect newborn headband, and even simple wood signs.

homemade_gift_bagWhat about you!? Do you love to make items for your baby shower gifts as well?

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you have a great week and get to imagine!

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DIY Batman Party Game

January 20, 2014 By Erica Deuel 11 Comments

DIY_batman_party_gamePersonalized gifts are some of my favorite to give and receive. For weeks I have been wanting to show you this Batman game that Matt and I made for our Jeremiah’s birthday. It was a team effort, and our J loved it!

We got pretty into the detail of our board game, but you can take the idea and make a board that fits to you and your time frame.

We started with a simple piece of Purebond scrap wood that we had left over from our planked wall. I spray painted the board black with a little Rustoleum spray paint and painted a gray curvy path with simple acrylic paint and a paintbrush. I then came back and used a sharpie and a ruler to outline my path and to mark it off into boxes.

making a game boardAt this point I jokingly asked Matt if he would like to paint Gotham City for me as I had a birthday to do list a mile long that I still needed to do. To my delight he said YES! He far surpassed my idea. He not only painted Gotham City, he painted fun elements along the board and gave a “purpose” to the game in getting Batman from his Batcave to Gotham City.

The game has a Candy Land feel. J loves Candy Land. He will play a dozen times in a row, so we were wanting to give that type of game to him with his absolute favorite guy, Batman. I think Matt nailed it. He penciled the designs and then painted them in.

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painting_a_cityHe would Googled pictures on his phone as he replicated his own. He did a great job painting the elements, but you could also print them out and use glue and mod podge to attach them to your game board.

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batman_party_gameOnce he was done painting the game board, I used my Rustoleum clear shiny spray on the entire board to act as a protectant. Matt came up with the cards on his own. They are fun and funny. I love to play this game!

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batman_gameboardJ had a wonderful birthday. I think this game (and playing it back to back to back) with him made him feel loved and put a huge smile on his face!

batman_birthday_boyHe still enjoys playing it all these weeks later! Have you ever made a game board before? I actually hung a little hook on the back of this game board and keep meaning to find a place to hang it up as “art” when it’s not in use.

friendsFor more Batman party inspiration, you can see the invites and Batman garland I made here.

Thank you so much for stopping in! I hope you all had a great weekend! Please come back tomorrow to check out my new Spoonful Tribe craft kit! I am beyond excited to share these crafts with you! There are some beautiful elements that work for Valentine’s Day or really any time of the year, and just like this month I will ship the kits out to you so you have every supply (including my tutorial videos) to create them as well!

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