Ombre Spray Painted Tea Tin


Over the years I've spray painted many tins to keep them out of the recycling bin. This past week, the weather here was amazing (for early March), so I decided to spray paint another tin that was destined for the trash heap. I had just finished a tin of Harney and Sons tea and decided to spray it in shades of teal.


I grabbed a cardboard box and went out onto the deck to with my spray paint.


I sprayed the first coats with the tin open. Spraying most of the tin in the middle shade of teal and then coming back with the lighter and darker shades at the top and bottom. I allowed each side to dry and then rotated the tin and sprayed another coat. With dry times and tin rotation, this first coat took an entire afternoon.


I let the whole thing dry overnight and then went over the first coat with a piece of sandpaper to knock down any bumps from the first application (if the spray paint is new--you probably won't have anything to sand off, but my spray paint is old and sometimes comes out of the can a bit wonky).


The edges of the lid were still fairly uncovered and you could kind of read the label through the first coat, so I put the lid back on the container and sprayed a second coat on each side. Medium color first, then dark color on the bottom and light color on the top. Once again I rotated and allowed for dry time in between.


I ended up with a lovely teal tin that's a blank canvas. I'm not really sure what I'm going to store in this tin, and I didn't have any decals cut that seemed like a good fit for a teal tin, so for now, I have a lovely teal tin. If I find something fun to add to it, I'll be sure to post an update.

 

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