Buckets of Love

Happy Friday! I hope you have all had a great week. We had a new scrapbook store open up in town last month {Cherry Lane Scrapbook Shoppe if you happen to live close to Mission!} and I finally had a chance to make it in for a visit. I tend to go a little crazy with the paper around Valentine's Day as it is one of the only times that I get to work with pink.  {My boys are great but they are just not into pink!}  I picked up some great My Mind's Eye and Echo Park Valentine's products and couldn't wait to get started!

I love dressing up paint cans for gift packaging.  At Valentine's Day you can fill them with chocolates, handmade goodies, favorite little gifts, love notes, or activity coupons.  Just use your creativity!

They are easy and relatively quick {depending on how picky you are!} to make.  You can pick up paint cans pretty much everywhere that sells paint for around $3. Cut down your scrapbook paper so that the seam lines up roughly with the middle of the round knob.  The only part that takes a little fiddling is cutting the holes around the handles.  For the body of the bucket you will need: 

• 2 pieces of scrapbook paper for the bottom of the can {approximately 10 1/2 inches x 4 3/8}
• 2 pieces of coordinating scrapbook paper for the top of the can {approximately 10 1/2 inches x 3}
• ribbon or 2 pieces of thin coordinating scrapbook paper to cover up the seams

The little round knob happens to be the same size as a nickel {at least on my pain can}.  Trust me, that nickel makes things much easier!  Measure your paint can from the top {where the paper will hit} to the center of the round knob.  Then measure this distance down on your paper and make a small mark. Line up you nickel and trace around it {Note: you will not be tracing a full circle since you are only cutting an opening for roughly half of the knob.  You will need to do a little "eyeballing" here.}

{Back view}

I then added a heart and some embellishments to the front.

Decorated the top.

And added a tag.

Other than the baker's twine and ribbon, all supplies are either from Echo Park or My Mind's Eye.

I hope you all have a great weekend.  The forecast is for some snow around here {up to 30 cm over the next 5 days which is a lot for around here!} so I am already hoping for a snow day on Monday.  Hopefully we will at least be able to get out for some sledding and a snowman or two!

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