Paintbrush Can Makeover

Hello there friends. I know, I know. There hasn't been much activity on here recently. That's mainly down to the fact I haven't made very much to be shown. I don't know where the time goes but it's not been in my craft room, that's for sure.

However, the Easter holidays are just around the corner, so I'll hopefully find myself spending some of it playing around with my crafty stash. Meanwhile, the only craft project I have made in the last few days, is this.

My desk is cluttered with art materials at the moment and I'm attempting to tame the mess, little by little.  One of the small steps I've taken, is to create a home for the paintbrushes. And yes, though my style of recent, involves a lot of layers and embellishments, I decided to keep the design a bit cleaner. Especially as the containers started life as packaging for a very popular brand of crisps and all I wanted was to cover it up. I mean, from a practical point of view, the canisters were perfect. But I do have plenty of paint and paper around, so I knew I could just spruce them up without going OTT.

So out came a couple of sheets of patterned 12x12 from Crate Paper which I trimmed to fit and glued around the cylinders. I used a border punch to create a frill for around the top before finishing with a touch of blue & black ribbon. I created the labels on the computer, printed them out and cut out the shapes using Spellbinders dies.

And yes, I thought about creating more of a flourish to them with a selection of shabby embellishments but nothing I arranged around, actually added to the design. I preferred them clean and simple. I mean, they're only for holding brushes and they are much nicer to look at already, than if I had just left them as they were.

Now I just need to find a bit of shelf space to put them on and move onto creating storage for the paints, palettes and journals.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter Break and find plenty of time for creating too.

Pip pip. Px