After Christmas I finished up with a whole bunch of chocolate and cookie tins covered in pictures of Santa Claus, Snow men and Christmas messages. The local goodwill stores are also filling up with a few. Now I got no beef with Santa (he and I go back a long way) but Christmas themed musical instruments are a hard sell any time between December 27 and Halloween.
Does anybody have any great ideas how to strip down, jazz up, de-Christmassify or otherwise re-purpose these tins without detempering them too much?
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On this tin acetone was very good at cleaning off anything except either the paint or the sticky tape residue.
It was a lot of work I reckon next time I will just give Santa a summer holiday only because I live in Australia Christmas is already Summer. But it was a learning experience as they say and I had fun.
if anyone find out how well acetone works, please share.
Seems like a lot of work stripping/sanding - would painting a yellow sun in the top corner, sunglasses on Santa and writing along the botom "Santa's summer holiday uke" work? For ease you could do it as a graffiti with a black marker pen.
Ghost of Santa still lives but
turned out pretty good. I like it
I am sorry, but that sanded Santa CRACKED ME UP! Thanks for starting my day off right. I think I would use it, the ghost Santa is subtle. Here is the one I did with using the BOTTOM of the tin.
You better not pout
You better no cry
You better not shout
I'm tellin' you why
Ghost of Santa Claus is coming to town
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I shall let your imaginations run on what the ghost of Santa could get up to. Almost makes me wish I was back up home so I could finish it off instead of down here staying at a vineyard near the beach.
We will all have to wait another week till I get back to the shed.
Unfortunately my old mate Santa is a bit persistent due to his being embosssed on the tin. A bit of textured rustoleum did a bit of covering after a bit of rubbing on a flat surface to smooth the embossing a bit. The hammered finish would be better for that.
Financially given I can get new tins full of biscuits or chocolate for between $ 3 and 10 dollars and second hand for $2 or under this is a waste of time. On the other hand you would have to be a mug to get into this game for the money.
The all year Christmas store is a fair way from my place but I may contact them when they reopen in February. We do have a few Christmas in July things that happen so we can eat gargantuan English Christmas dinner while the temperature is a bit less sweltering than it is at the moment. I think they are more into the trees and food but I will keep an eye out later in the year.
Carvel Ice Cream had the right idea, The Santa cake and the whale cake were made with the same mold, it's all in how you decorated it.
I bought a mold at the thrift store of like santa's face.. . . decorate the hat however ya like but it really looks like my coworker with this epic beard...
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