Father’s Day Project: Paint Can Scrapbook
There’s still time to make your own Father’s Day pressie!
This Father’s Day, try something different but also personal. Make your father his very own scrapbook, with photos, journals and memorabilia.
Instructions:
Purchase an empty 1-gallon paint can at a hardware store or check for paint cans at your local craft store. Paint cans with clear, acrylic bodies are all the rage for storing art supplies but find an all-new purpose as 3-D scrapbooks. Because my whole family worked together (under Dad’s direction) to remodel our childhood home, a paint can is a fitting choice for me but other three dimensional containers that would also work include a leather tool belt with multiple pockets, a lunch pail, a cold drink cooler or a wicker fishing creel. My second choice was an unused, half-gallon ice cream carton that can be purchased (empty) at any ice cream store. The idea is to pick a container in a theme that suits your father and that can be used to hold photos and other three dimensional souvenirs, along with notes that explain their importance to you and your family.
Decorating the can is simple. Cut a strip of paper that matches the width of the can, label it with your Dad’s name or nickname and attach it to the can’s surface. If the can is acrylic, simply roll up the paper with the decorated side facing out and unroll it inside the can. Photos can be matted and left loose or attached to a strip of accordion folded paper.
Source: Fort Wayne
Related Stories
POSTED IN: Scrapbook Projects
1 opinion for Father’s Day Project: Paint Can Scrapbook
Tracy Green
Oct 20, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I think it is a great idea, I am making a Halloween one for my sister inlaw, it is her birthday, ans I am filling it with yankee candles
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: