Spray Painted Christmas Tins and Old Candle Jars {Organize}…

 

 

I have loved all of the awesome spray painted tin projects floating around Blogland lately. Of course I love ANYTHING spray painted, it’s my vice! These spray painted Christmas tins are such a great way to recycle those big metal tubs of popcorn, nuts and all of those Christmas tins! Best of all, these tins are the perfect size for storing little stuff and they are so easy to upcycle with spray paint.

Here are just a few of my favorite spray painted tin projects that I have come across to show you all of the different possibilities:

The Crafty Woman spray painted Christmas tins in Krylon Jade, which is so fun with the gold on the inside of the tins:

 

Frou Frou Britches spray painted a Christmas popcorn tin to create a pretty dog food bin with a black sharpie:

 

Mom’s Crafty Space created these fun crayon holders with metal fruit cup tins of all things! Brilliant! She did this for her classroom and then screwed the cans onto a long narrow board!

 

 

So many possibilities!

Since I have old Christmas tins coming out of my ears, I thought I would spray paint a few to create storage containers for my baking cabinet.  I also have several old candle jars that have very little wax left in them and I thought I would use those as well.  My crafty friend Samantha told me about how she created her own little storage jars using old candles and I couldn’t wait to give that a try too!

So I started with Christmas tins just like these:

 

 

I also started with an old Bath and Body Shop candle jar that was pretty low on wax that I would have just tossed away in the garbage:

 

 

I took the lids off of the tins and turned the tins upside down and sprayed a thin coat of primer on them {just enough to cover} and I also primed the candle lid and let it dry for an hour.  I usedRust-oleum Ultra Primer:

 

 

After allowing the primer to dry for an hour, I sprayed a top coat of paint over the primer and let the tins dry completely overnight. I used my favorite Rust-oleum color- “Sand Fossil” for my top coat on the taupe tins:

 

 

For the candle lid, my top coat was spray chalkboard paint by Kyrlon:

 

 

The next morning, the tins were completely dry and perfect.  They looked just like they came in that taupe color and you would never know they were spray painted.  Yay!!

I finished my tins off by adding black vinyl labels using a label stencil that I created to use on some vinyl.  No special vinyl machine needed, I just traced my stencils on the back on the vinyl and cut.  If you’re interested in the free printable labels that I made, I shared them here and again, you do not need a special vinyl cutting machine!  Just scissors! Yay!! By the way, if you wet your chalk, you do not need special chalkboard vinyl to write on it!

 

 

For the candle, I cleaned out the wax with a knife and dish soap and then I ran the glass through the dishwasher on sterilize just to make sure that I got the candle smell completely out of the glass.  My friend Samantha told me that if you’re having trouble getting wax out of the jar, just put in the freezer for a couple hours and you can get the wax out a lot easier:

 

 

 

That’s it!  So easy and I love all of the possibilities for pretty storage ideas throughout the house.  I thought I would spray a few for my daughter’s bathroom in fun bold colors for hair binders, barrettes and all that little girlie stuff that’s impossible to keep organized.

 

If you’re interested in the printable label stencils for glass, tin and plastic, I will be sharing those on Wednesday morning here on the blog. I will link the printables here after Wednesday, so you can also check back to this post.

 

 

Cheers!

Cyndy