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Ok so I have seen these decrated "fruit cups" You know the ones that have peaches in them or pears or something. And its such a cute idea but I never understood why you would decorate teh outside of a fruit cup to give to someone. So obviously you are taking out the fruit right? Then how are you getting the pullt ab lid thingy back on without it looking like you took it off? Am I totally confused on this? seems like it is a popular thing but I am not getting it at all. Could someone just enlighten me?
It takes a special sort of can opener (the "safety kind"). I purchased mine at "Wally's World" for about $9. Open it from the bottom, feed the peaches (or whatever) to your family, and then wash out the can and bottom.
Make a new label/cover for the outside, fill with chocolates or another surprise, and then glue back on the bottom using Crystal Effects (leave the can upside down until the following morning for best results).
A lot of fun to make! I hope you try it!
BTW: soup cans don't seem to work with the safety can opener.... the can is too curved. You need a base of a can that is sort of a flat rim. Check out your Cambell's soup can in your pantry to see what I mean by "curved" and then you will start looking at cans in a whole new light at the grocery store!
I have a recipe for Fruit Cocktail Torte that I make with Fruit Cocktail. It was a recipe of my grandmothers, and it is a great dessert! As I am a demonstrator and need many cans for a workshop, I often will empty the cans of fruit and I have the cans for the project and the fruit for the dessert! Add whipping cream and provide coffee, and I am set. ;)
Here is the recipe:
Sift together 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, and 1/2 tsp salt. Add 1 egg (slightly beaten), 16 oz fruit cocktail w/juice. Pour into an 8" x 12" greased pan.
Sprinkle 1 scant cup of brown sugar (do not pack) and then 1 cup chopped pecans on top of the mixture. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
Serve with cool whip, whipped cream, or ice cream. YUM! (Best when served warm).
These are fun! I made a care package for my niece who is away at College and I left the regular label on it and then a few weeks later she called and said did you know one of the cans you gave me had $20 in it? I said yeah I did I was wondering how long it would take you to find it. I still haven't told her how I got the money in there and it is over 1 year later.
AH!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE OFF THE BOTTOM!!! I knew I was missing something! THank you so much for your help! I am going to try these and see if anyone else can figure them out!
These are fun! I made a care package for my niece who is away at College and I left the regular label on it and then a few weeks later she called and said did you know one of the cans you gave me had $20 in it? I said yeah I did I was wondering how long it would take you to find it. I still haven't told her how I got the money in there and it is over 1 year later.
Yes!! I do agree. I seen that also, and couldn't figure out how they did that. If and when someone replies to this, I would love the info as well... Please send me a message on here or email me at [email protected]
Thanks so much. I thought they were VERY neat ideas. The things people come up with just amazes me!
So...anyone have step by step instructions or an example, this sounds really cool. Love the whole leave the original label on idea...great gift/gag gift to give my college buddies.
BTW: soup cans don't seem to work with the safety can opener.... the can is too curved. You need a base of a can that is sort of a flat rim. Check out your Cambell's soup can in your pantry to see what I mean by "curved" and then you will start looking at cans in a whole new light at the grocery store!
HTH!
Thanks, I was wondering about soup cans...I just bought some fruit cans today to try to do- thought I'd made some Halloween ones for my principal, asst. principal and the 2 other secretaries in the office. Hope they come out!
I have the Pampered Chef can opener...
Take the bottom off and fell with shredded paper and decorate the outside
and let the person put a piece of jewerly or diamond ring in it and then they glue the bottom back on and give it as a gift. The soup cans make a good gift card holder. I did a lot of these last year for Christmas gifts. Some cans
had gift cards some had money and just flipped the lid and was surprised.
What a great idea.I would like the step by step as well. I would like to do some for my grandaughts teachers.Please reply my email is www.corie @rodgers.com. Thanks again. ruthannwf
Okay, I made 1 today.
First, I used my smooth edge can opener to remove the bottom.
After eating the fruit, I washed and dried the fruit cup.
I removed the fruit lablel. I cut a strip of patterned paper, 8x1 3/4.
I glued that on. Filled the fruit cup with goodies and glued the
bottom back on. I then embellished it.
I have made a ton of these and my DH got sick of eating so many mandarin oranges!:rolleyes: lol These were my hostess gifts for last year's SU! catalog. I made each and every hostess one and inside I put a little stamp and mini stamp pad with the shredded paper confetti style stuff.
Other ideas to fill can with----
Fill with candy for Halloween---I did this last year as well
Fill with candy for their Birthday----
Fill with candy for Christmas----
Fill with candy for Easter------
Fill with Gift Cards to favorite stores---they fit great in the soup can pop tops size
Fill with movie tickets & money for popcorn...
The list is really endless --- We had a ball with them last year --- my customers came up with some awesome ideas!! ;)
HTH & Have fun!!!
Oh also, I forgot to add in my other post----
I use 'crystal effects' to glue the bottom back on---dab a bit around the edges and press together. I would then let the can sit under a heavy book or two for a few hours and it seals up wonderful! The best thing: my fingers didnt get glued together! lol ;)
I'd love to see one of these done up, too. And I'm confused...I'm reading both "fruit cup" and "can". Which do you use? These sound like great gifts for my nephews who are so hard to buy for!
For those of you looking for more info, I just found pictures of these great cans! Go to the Gallery and type in "fruit cans" in the search bar. These are really cute. Now I just need to find the right glue!
Denise
You can use any sort of metal can with the pop top lid----small or large ;)
The 'credit card' looking gift cards fit better in like the Campbells chix noodle soup size...
I am sorry I don't have pictures---I was making these 'pre digital camera' days :rolleyes:
BUT.....Here is the link to pop top containersin the gallery here---WONDERFUL ideas...enjoy :mrgreen:
This is my first time seeing these cans done, what a great idea.. Where is best place to find the crystal effects glue? not sure if my LSS has that or not.
Susie
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This is my first time seeing these cans done, what a great idea.. Where is best place to find the crystal effects glue? not sure if my LSS has that or not.
Susie
SUP sells crystal effects, I have been able to find a similar product in AC Moore & Michaels.
Funny story - I made these for friends and relatives last year and everyone I gave them to was nervous about opening them. They were affraid something was going to jump out of them. It was quite funny to watch!
The product that I got that was not crystal effects was cloudy. It would probably be perfect to use for this project, but I don't know that I would use it on a card. I will have to try this sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Another idea for soup cans (or even evaporated milk cans as you can just pierce and let milk drain out and rinse and rerinse to avoid any stinkiness...) is to make a piggy bank. After emptying and washing out, my husband makes a slot for me through the tin at the top using a large sharp knife (tin bends inwards so it's not dangerous). Just hold knife tip on top of can and then sort of hammer knife in with other hand to make slot to desired size. And then decorate! Then when the can is full of coins, you just use an ordinary can opener to open up!
can you put the empty cans in the dish washer or do they get rusty?
I fear my gifts smelling like peaches ;).
I know you can hand wash, but I would like to be as sterile as possible!!
Yes, you can put them in the dishwasher (sorry, I forgot about that step... it's been a while since I made those piggy banks...) and they do not rust. My husband is a teacher and once we sanitized 30 cans so his students could make a cool father's day piggy bank!
Yes, you can put them in the dishwasher (sorry, I forgot about that step... it's been a while since I made those piggy banks...) and they do not rust. My husband is a teacher and once we sanitized 30 cans so his students could make a cool father's day piggy bank!
I just stumbled upon this post with the Wed. "inkling" and I LOVE doing the fruit cans this way. I used to have a Pampered Chef safety cut can opener but had to replace it about once a year...not a cheap item. Found a similar opener at WalMart and it has lasted as long as the PC item for 1/3rd of the price but have recently seen an automatic electric safety cut can opener advertised on TV so will be watching for that!!
Anyway, I once opened a can of baked beans (not the pop top variety) and stuffed a Beanie Baby inside and mailed it to my Mom for a little surprise. Get it? bean can? beanie baby? There was a lot of whispering going on in the Post Office the day I took that in and mailed it with the original label!!! lol! (pssst, who do you supposed that woman is mailing a can of beans???).
I love the Campbell's Chunky Soup cans for this as they don't have a rounded bottom edge and will open easily. Also large cans (maybe 11 or 12 oz?) of pineapple with the pop tops will open from the bottom as well as the fruit cups, Mandarin Oranges, etc. These are so much fun!!! But when I gave one to my good friend (who jokes about being a "natural blonde" and not only is it true but it fits her) she opened the "pop top" and stuck her hand inside to pull out the gift and cut herself on the inside. So, even though I put her gift into a cello bag tied with ribbon and the top of the bag was sticking up and easy to grab, she managed to cut herself so I try to always give them a "cautionary warning" when they open the cans now. If mailing, I use Crystal Effects to seal but if it's something they want to save and I'm handing it to them, I run mono all around the outside edge of the bottom lid or pieces of doublesticky tape and stick it on then it is easily removeable and they can keep the pop top intact. Jan
p.s. the funny thing is that I have my family trained to open pop top lids from the bottom now, even my husband! Can't bear to throw them out...you just never know when you might "need" one in a pinch!
I've done several of these and they are so much fun. We gave one with a gift card enclosed to a college grad and he was a little afraid something would jump out when he opened it.
I'm using the 15 - 20 oz. pineapple size as a stamp camp project next weekend. It will have the ingredients for Snowman Soup inside. To decorate it, I'm using 4" x 12" strips of the blue dotted paper from Pool Party, then a 1 - 1.5" torn strip of white cs for snow at the bottom, with Frosty stamped on white cs & trimmed. The Snowman Soup poem is printed on a tag to attach to the pull top tab.
FYI, Walmart brand green chilies have a pull top & are a cute size for smaller gifts.
Looks like I'm going to have to make a trip to Wal Mart to get a safety can opener and a package of canned fruit! Thanks for all these wonderful tips and suggestions.
Denise
I love these---made them for a sweet sixteen party for my neice. The boys were so funny---all sarcastic like what a can of fruit, uh thanks... Until one opened it up and then they went crazy. We just had Skittles in them ,but they thought it was the greatest thing. Hard to make 16 yo's impressed, but this did.
I just made some Santa ones(Like Julie HRR's simple card). Just waiting for the red and green M&M's to put in them.
My family also does not open pop top's the same anymore LOL---and when a empty glass jar comes out of the dishwasher, they just put it right on my craft table for me---Well Trained little buggers, huh?
I tried one of these for the first time this weekend. I love the idea but I'm having a difficult time adhering paper to the metal can. Does everyone use CE or something else? I tried mini glue dots and that worked but the cardstock seam keeps popping open. I tried mono adhesive but that's not holding. Any ideas? Thanks!
decorated fruit cup help needed
Would like to know as well!!!
