Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Recipe for Love





The Recipe for Love:

This is a pop art influenced canister featuring a loving housewife and her very happy husband. The woman is shown with a grocery bag full of all the ingredients she needs for "the recipe for love", as many of the food items dance around the gleeful couple.

You can display this delightful piece as a candle votive, pen or pencil holder, trinket container, or as a stunning work of art. This also makes a great gift for holding baked goods, candies, soaps, bath salts, teas, etc. Also in my shop are some beautiful satin pouches that fit perfectly in this canister and can contain candies, cookies, soap, teas, etc.





In these pictures, the shine on the canister is from the glossy Mod Podge finish. I applied two coats of Mod Podge to this canister so the images are protected, yet you can still feel the fun texture of the freckles!

The eco-friendly recycled materials used in this item are: a tin can, magazine clippings, and recycled paper. This piece measures 4 1/2 inches tall and 3 inches wide. The interior of this tin is painted a gorgeous hunter green. Canisters like this one were opened with a special can opener that cuts with a very smooth edge, so you can touch the top of the canister and be completely safe!





9 comments:

  1. love this post!

    you did a great job!!

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  2. Thank you Christine...you are so sweet! ;-D I love your blog!

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  3. Oh my, you do amazing work! I am off to heart your shop, I have a friend who will be in your shop in a heartbeat...she is a lover of all things green and repurposed, just like me!

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  4. Thank you Rose! I love creating beautiful art from recycled materials...I am also a big fan a repurposed items...Yes, please tell your friends! :-D

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  5. cute canister!!! love that you use all recycled materials

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  6. Cute! Love the recycled art idea!

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  7. I love this...I have been "collecting" my canisters (oatmeal, tin cans) just waiting for the time to tackle something like this...yours are out of this world!

    Holly
    504 Main

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  8. Thank you everyone for the sweet comments! Holly, transforming tin cans into little masterpieces is so much fun...just let your imagine go free!

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