Soda Can Diy

I drink way too much soda.

Seriously.

Because my hubby and I drink so much soda we have a surplus of aluminum cans.

We do recycle them, but when I was playing around with paint swatches and paper punches I had a great idea, "what if you can punch a soda can?"

well, of course you can.

ha ha can...

Sorry for the pun.

There are a few tutorials on how to punch and use soda cans in crafting.

The first thing I tried was a flower!

let me show you what I made!

look how awesome this is!

Pretty good for a first try!

To get started here is what I used:

5 dr. pepper cans (my drug of choice)

a flower petal punch by fiskars, it has two sizes

e6000 glue

I cut up 5 soda cans, I punched petals from all of them and saved the bottom from one,

For the base I used the bottom of the can and folded down the sharp edges.

I then folded, bent and glued the larger petals to the base.

I went around a few times and came up with this,

This would have made a cute flower the way it was, so you could stop here.

That's not how I roll,

so then I added the smaller petals. working around and around again.

Folding and bending before glueing them was way easier then trying to bend them afterwords FYI.

I kept going until I was out of room!

And TADA!

my finished flower!

I'm going to play around with different curling and petal placement.

I can't wait to find some magnets to put on the back so I can put it on the fridge!

Thanks for stopping by!

W