I want to share with you a simple and exciting way of decorating cans of chips with improvised materials.

After enjoying the chips a great jar is left, you can use it to store spaghetti. But the trouble is that spaghetti are higher than this jar. Of course you can put them there for beauty, but then the functionality of the jar and the practicality of the hostess disappear completely. If you are not satisfied with a pasta bouquet, then we'll make a lid and increase the jar.

We will need the following materials:

• a chips jar or other workpiece in a form of a tube;
• a plastic container of sour cream;
• a furniture handle;
• a panel;
• putty;
• self-hardening clay;
• super glue;
• acrylic paints (white, beige, black, brown);
• acrylic primer;
• sandpaper;
• acrylic lacquer;
• brushes;
• scissors;
• a damp cloth.

So let's start:

Take a jar of sour cream (400 grams) from the refrigerator. Do not worry, it's all right. It's not a DIY on baking cookies! :) Eat the sour cream and start crafting! Use a white container without pattern, a jar as in the photo is perfect.

Cut the bottom of this plastic container.

Close the chips jar with pasta with the future lid, let's call it a plastic element.

As you can see, the container of sour cream perfectly goes in and out of the chips jar! :) So the height of the jar is the same as the height of spaghetti.

Cut off the excess and sand this detail for better adhesion of paint.

Also sand the lid, the panel (which by the way is a case for shoe covers) and the handle. Degrease. Cover all the details with putty or acrylic paint mixed with lacquer in a 1:1 ratio.

Put the panel on the lid of the chips jar and screw the handle with a nail.

Then glue the whole structure to our plastic element, I used superglue. The lid is ready. We won't paint it inside, it's already white and tidy. It remains to decorate the outside.

Decorate the jar with self-hardening clay, you can use DAS clay instead.

Roll out the clay to the size, make the edges thinner. I was too fascinated by the work and didn't photograph this step, I will show you on a small piece of clay.

Put dried flowers and roll them with a rolling pin through a clear pocket, as if pressing them into the clay. Turn thin edges of the clay.

Gently remove the dried flowers, that's what we've got.

Glue the clay to the jar using dense construction white glue. Gently smoothen the seam of clay with a finger moistened with water.

We will simulate tree bark on other surfaces of the jar. Apply putty with a palette knife, not too thick. Divide it into panels of different widths. Draw on the putty knots and other irregularities with a toothpick. Do the same on the protruding part of the lid.

Imitate nails with a pen without a rod.

When the putty is dry, lightly sand it, then clean with a damp cloth to remove the bumps and make the work more accurate.

After drying paint the clay beige, it should not be thick, so as not to fill the pattern. It is advisable not to paint deepenings. After drying cover it with matte or semi-gloss acrylic lacquer.

Paint our bark brown two times, leave no gaps. Do not forget about the lid. Dry and lacquer.

Thin brown and black paint to dark, almost black color, add some water so the paint is not thick. Paint the entire clay.

Next comes the most magical moment, the moment of a miracle birth :)

Take a damp cloth and now wash the paint on the surface, leaving it in the recesses and reliefs, to the desired result. Dry and lacquer.

The same is done with the bark. Cover it with dark paint, then erase it, leaving the recesses. Lacquer it to secure the result.

Then to refresh the work take a dry bristle brush and the beige paint which we used to paint clay. Dip the brush into the paint, bounce the paint on a sheet of paper so that there is almost no paint on the brush and pass the brush through all the exposed parts of the bark. Do the same with the clay.

Paint the handle beige, pass through it with a dry-brush with black paint. Lacquer. Tie a bow or other decoration and you're done!

Thus, we get a lovely and functional piece of furniture to store pasta and other bulk products: mushrooms, herbs, rose hips, etc., with a minimum monetary cost and maximum pleasure from the creation of the work.

If you want to make decoupage on a jar, then to glue a motive do the layout on a jar. We divide the jar into three parts, given the height of the lid. Prime the middle part of the blank, where the decoupage will be, with acrylic primer or acrylic paint, diluted half with lacquer.

Glue a napkin with decoupage or white glue, if you have a printout, glue it. After drying cover the work with acrylic lacquer. I made this work:

Thank you all for your attention! I hope the information was clear and useful.

Enjoy your creativity and inspiration!