paint can template?
 

Finally made it to Home Depot yesterday and picked up my first paint can. I'd like to make one for a friend of my son's birthday. Sat down to assess my cardstock needs and I realized I don't know where to start. Going around the handle seems a bit challenging. Anyone have a template for the bottom layer that goes around the can? And the lid?

TIA you folks are the best!
~Gina

It's right here: http://forums.splitcoaststampers.com...ad.php?t=49201

Be sure to follow all the download directions to get the template to your computer. Just clicking on the file name probably will not work.

Cyndie

Cyndie,
Thanks ever so much! I'm psyched to be able to getting started this morning. It's going to rain all day here.
Have a great one!
~Gina

Any tips for getting the right size circle for the lid?
TIA,
~Gina

Thanks again for your guidance, Cyndie! Here is a pic of my finished can for a soon-to-be-three year old.

I am filling it with a knitted fun fur scarf and headband (for dress up purposes), a rainbow streamer, a harmonica, a pink shaker egg, purple Velcro bells, and a ready to make birthday mini-scrapbook. Have rhythm sticks too that don't fit in the can if I want the lid to be on it.

Now back to knitting if I want the scarf and headband to be ready it time!
~Gina

Wow! Looks great! What a lucky kid!

Obviously you figured out the circle for the top part--I didn't think to put that in my template. I just used a circle cutter set to cut a circle slightly smaller than the space it needed to occupy.

Cyndie

I rummaged through my tupperware cabinet and found a bowl smaller than the lid to trace. It's not perfect but good enough. Just dawned on me that the can itself can double as a drum so I'm about to order a mallet to go with it. Not likely that it'll fit inside the can so I think I'll put a metal key ring around the handle; the stick will go through it with the mallet head resting on top.

Thanks again.
~Gina

Here is a picture of the scene I created for my next paint can; design inspired by one of my favorite cards in the gallery by Happy Heart. I need to buy the can still. You can see the circles where the holes will be. I need to get my swivel knife back from a friend to cut the card stock. For the other can I used scissors because the paper was only thin wrapping paper. I bought a string of shells at Party City with this can in mind.

Our main present for this child is a beach towel with a Candyland game board printed on it; it has big cards and playing pieces with it. It is a towel that is used as a game at the beach. Obviously it won't fit in the can.
Inside the paint can I will put name stickers, a "purse" with C post it notes (see picture), a birthday mini-scrapbook, and Bath and Bodyworks kids toiletries (a duck sponge with soap inside, shampoo, and lip balm). I have a mini-license plate with her name on it. I will attach it to the handle of the can.

~Gina
P.S. I fixed the fourth crab to match the others.