New life to a plastic container!! Plastic to Copper Look!!
posted on Sep 12, 2013
Your Kitchen or Storage room might be having plastic containers, that are good in size, you can throw them away for recycling but if there is no recycling facility and your home has enough space for new decorative items, you can try this.
we need:
Good size Plastic Container, i used the Whey Protein Container.
A4 Size white papers.
Glue.
Copper-Gold-Bronze Acrylic Paint.
Matching Ribbons
Remove the label of the container, they can be peeled off easily.
Take as many white A4 Size papers as you could buy.
Apply glue to the container surface and start pasting the papers, one beside the other, once you cover a layer, apply glue all-over and paste the papers...we need atleast 4-5 layers to create a texture. once you are confident that the papers are smoothly pasted, without much crinkles, you can stop it there. Allow the container to dry out totally...Start applying the Copper Acrylic paint to the surface, give it coat by coat, atleast 3 layers until the paper white is not visible...you can tie any matching ribbons and decorate your space....i did it and people asked where i bought that Copper Vessel in this modern days..that was very encouraging!!
- Prathyusha Talluri