Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Try it Tuesday~re-purposed "lunch pail"


Welcome to Try it Tuesday.   This has been my project for the last two days.  I was determined to make this into a useful piece of crafty storage ~ so lets begin the journey.   A friend gave me this old lunch pail~it was surely headed to the dump.  I "liked" it immediately and I started thinking of ways to use it. This is what  came up with~

I first added some felt circles, that I cut from my Spellbinder die ~ so it would not scratch up my counter top.  I used Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue them on the bottom of the pail.


From left to right ~ the first picture is the top of the lunch pail with an old book cover glued to the top.~ made a nice landing place for my embellishments.  Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive is what I used most of the time when I refer to glue.  The second photo is a picture of the inside of the lid. I used the cover of an old dictionary and glued it in ( the four corners).  I don't have a picture of this but the bottom cover is in the bottom of the pail.  The third picture is of the dividers ~I covered some plastic dividers that I had with old dictionary paper.  Inked up the edges and made a Dymo label for the top.  The last picture is showing file set up for all of my mini alphabet letters.  My lettering of choice ~ well, for now anyway!



Then I started on the decorations that were going to sit on the book cover, of the lid.  I used my Tim Holtz die, Jenni Bowlin Acrylic Paint Dabber's, and Helmar's Professional Acid Free Glue to build my center piece~ so to speak.  I took a shaped pieced of cardstock and covered it with the old dictionary paper ( I watered down the Helmar's Acid Free ever so slightly to glue my old dictionary paper down), inked up the edges and used the Crop-a-dile to place my holes(for the ribbon).  I glued everything to my base(the wing on the bird I used Helmar's Scrap Dots) so it would have dimension.


I ended up adding some Prima and silk ribbon~which I just adore!!!


I then made a little mini tag using the same products to hang from the latch hardware.
Here is the complete project~




I am enjoying using my vintage lunch pail for storage for my mini alphabets.  I love to take something old and give it new life.  I hope you have enjoyed this and are encouraged to rescue something old and give it a new purpose~where ever that might be.  Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

14 comments:

  1. It looks gorgeous! I want to find an old lunch pail now! :)

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  2. Oh this is ADORABLE! I love all things vintage/antique/trash! Glad you saved this amazing piece!!! Love what you did with it. Blessings,

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  3. I'm headed to Radiackes resale to see if she has a something to recycle like this!!! Love it!
    Love the ribbon....LOL

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  4. that is totally awesome connie. love the lil touches and what a great idea.

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  5. The pail has so much character already, but your embellies really gave it a little something special! Great job.

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  6. Oh wow, I love vintage storage solutions!! Great lunch pail!! TFS!!

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  7. Fantastic use of the old pail! TFS

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  8. Really pretty renewing! What a great find. Very inspiring!

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  9. You make the most amazing projects! How cool is that! Love the look and putting the mini alphas in there is an exceptional idea! Love coming here to visit!

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  10. what a great project. I think I need to try one of these - I don't have anything vintage but I do have some tins I could try something similar on. How inspirational. I love it

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  11. I love your creative eye. Great creativity on the lunch pail. My daughter collects old lunch boxes so I shared your post with her. Thanks Connie.

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