upcycled watering cans

These cans have been on my hit list for ages.. The blue one has had a hard outdoors life, the tin one is in pretty much new condition fro the warehouse. One was donated by a dear friend, the other was gathered from a garage sale for a couple of $$.

First step was to attack the outdoors one. being that I am slack I simply I scrubbed it with a kitchen Goldilocks, metal scrubber. Then both were coated with 2 coats of Resenes test pots (my fav paint).

I printed out A4 sheets from my collection of vintage images gathered from Google images. each piece was cut out . I eliminated all the extra frill bits that were hard to cut around and made them  more simplistic. One one design I did fill in the white spaces with my copic markers to eliminate the white paper in the spaces. Please also note I only used basic A4 white paper to print on. I like it for vintage images as it makes it look older somehow once the white is eliminated.

Next step was to adhere them using my scotch glue stick.

Only step remaining is to varnish the finished items with polyurethane to protect the images. I would not put these outdoors.