Salt Lick Shop: watering can

Apr 4, 2015

DIY Primitive Watering Cans

I've been in the mood to do some summery crafts now that Spring is here.

So today I'd like to show you how I re-made some old plain watering cans.

Here is the before photo

Before

I won at an auction for only $2.00 each. I took a total of 3 cases of 4, getting 12 cans in all. So total spent was $24. I'm going to price them for $11.99 each and hopefully if they all sell, it will pay for my months rent in my Booth#555, which is $120.00 plus a 4% fee.

Keep in mind you can use any cans that you may have or even look for the cheap ones at Wal-Mart or the Dollar Store.

They were cute as they were in the blue and white speck, but having so many I needed to change a few up.

So I started with some regular craft paint from Walmart, the .88cent bottles.

Give them a good coating. For the first few I chose the burgundy red:

I left that cute rusty spot showing through some. I liked it.

Then I picked through my drawer of primitive stencils that I bought from eBay.

My favorite ones are the Old Crow and the Stars.


It's so rough. I have used this same stencil for years.

I put on the stencil paint with a makeup sponge.

Start with a small dab of paint. It's best not to get it very wet at once either, or the paint will bleed under your stencil. So less is more really!

I used a few different of my stencils and here's some pics of the first set:

And then I wanted to make up some in different colors and here they are.

For this one, I mixed up some gray, dark blue and little bit of black and some off yellow and came up with the base color that kind of looks like old metal.

Then I took some red and dry brushed it on to make it look like old rust:

So far this is my absolute favorite one!:

And then on a few I took some different kind of paint that I found at BigLots for around $2.49 and painted a few again that I didn't like how they had turned out. It is a gloss red: