Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Decorative Clothespin Container

3:00 AM Gail @Purple Hues and Me clothespin crafts, pinterest challenge 20 comments

Welcome to the July Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop hosted by Erlene @ My Pinterventures. If you aren't familiar with the Pinterest Challenge, it's a monthly event that challenges us to not just be pin hoarders, but to make it happen!

I have lots of clothespins left over from projects I've done before like here, here and here! Plus, there are lots of clothespin crafts on Pinterest for inspiration, too! One craft pin I have been meaning to do for quite a while now - is making a decorative container using clothespins. It's such an easy way to turn something like recycle cans (nut can) you're about to toss, into an item that's useful and decorative! And the best part, you can let your imagination run wild deciding how to decorate it!

Materials needed:

Can
Wood Clothespins (21+)
DAP All Purpose Adhesive
Ribbon/Cording
Fabri-Tac Fabric Glue

Let's begin with the container! It's best to have one that's close to the height of the clothespins. I didn't have one so I cut down an empty nut can from my stash. Then I placed a clothespin at the bottom of the can and marked on the can where the top of the clothespin hit. Wrapped painter's tape around the can at the mark . . .

to cut the can down. And don't forget to save the cut-off piece for another project!

I'm using matching ribbon and cording that I found at JoAnn for 70% off almost a year ago! I've been wanting to make something with them!

Next, twist the clothespins apart to remove the metal springs and begin gluing on the flat sides using a quick grab glue like DAP multi-purpose glue or super glue.

I used 21 clothespins twisted apart for this size can giving a barrel effect look.

At this point, I had every intentions of painting the wood portion but got carried away with trying out how to add the ribbon and found myself gluing it on to see. Oh well!

So I then tied cording around where the larger wood indents are.

And decided to make a flower to help decorate the can. By first, separating the cording and cut it into six 3.5" strips for the petals. Use Fabri-Tac glue to straighten the cords and glue them on the ribbon in a petal shape.

Once dry, cut out the petals.

Arrange petals like a flower and glue sides together towards center.

Add a bead to center and glue flower on container where cording is tied.

It's such a sweet container to hold your special knick-knacks and what-knots!

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