Tin can earrings

Hellooo!!!

I hope you all enjoyed Uttrayan as much as I did!! And the one thing that changed after the big kite festival is my skin color!  :P

Anyways jokes apart, this time I am going to show you how to reuse the Pepsi cans and make something useful out of it. And I should warn you that this one is a little bit dangerous because of the can, but wear safety gloves or you can just be careful, because, if I did it without hurting myself than you surely can.

So basically I am making earrings out of it and they are obviously of owls!! ( Damn am obsessed with them). You have freedom to choose any shape you like.

To start ,the materials that you will need are as follows:

•  an empty can
• pair of scissors (that can cut through the can)
• marker 
• earring hooks
• permanent glue
• eyes and beak for the owl face ( googly eyes are easily available in any craft shop or you cab go to candle stores at commerce six roads)
• and lastly some old nail paint or any other permanent paint

step 1 : take your can and wash it properly with water and make sure its dry before working on it.

step 2 : now take your scissor and punch a hole into the can, at place i have shown in picture, with the point of your scissor. I am again saying please be careful or just ask someone's help. Now using that hole as your starting point cut the bottom/top of the can body. Repeat the same procedure on the other side. 

step 3 : at the end of step 2 you will get a hollow cylinder. Now cut through the length of the cylinder and role the sheet inside out or as in opposite direction . If you still don't get it than just look at the picture. We did this so as to get a plain sheet of can just like a paper sheet.

step 4 : now that you have your sheet ready make your design on to it. There are two options here -> either you can make a single sheet earring or a double sheet. I have done double sided so i had to draw the design two times with both sides connecting at some point. In this case they are connected at the ears.

step 5 : now cut out the pattern and you will get something like this.

step 6 : fold it as follows. Just don't break it, because the sheet is very thin.

step 7 : now this is interesting.  Paint the body of the owl face with whatever you have. I have used my old drying nail paint that I no longer can apply on my nails. After the paint has dried stick the eyes and the beak . If your hands are clumsy or too big you can use tweezers. 

       Now here I want to tell you something. It is not a little bit necessary to use the googly eyes. You can use almost any thing like a bead or a button or a gem. Just look what i have used as a beak. That beak is from my hairpin :P You can even use a bindi.

       And the second thing is whenever you want to cute things up a little bit more than use uneven sized eyes like i have done. Different sized eyes look more cute ;)

step 8 : now finally hook them into your earring hooks. Well i don't have to tell you how and if you don't have earring hooks than you can just make them out of wire as i have done. Just a little bit folding and they are done. So voila you have your earrings ready. So go on and flaunt them.

See you next time :)