Tuna fish can jewelry box and paper beads

This is the perfect travel size jewelry box. It also works well for ponytail holders. The supplies you need for the little box are: 1 tuna can, (5 oz,) hot glue gun and glue sticks, cereal box, needle and thread, scissors, fabric scraps (I cut up a pretty vest I found at the thrift shop) measuring tape and pencil, scraps of denim and ribbon. For the paper beads, you will need an old magazine with colorful pictures, mod podge or decopauge glue, a toothpick and Q-tip.

Step 1

The first step is to cut 4 circles out of the cereal box. Turn the tuna can upside down and trace around it to get the 3-1/4" circle. The other 3 need to be 3" across. Cut these out. From the denim cut a circle 3-1/4" and a rectangle 1-1/8" x 11". Out of the fabric cut 4 circles that are 4" and one that is 4-1/2". also from the fabric cut a rectangle 4" x 14". Heat up the glue gun and glue the circle of denim onto the 3-1/4" cardboard circle then place this onto the wrong side of the 4-1/2" fabric circle, denim side down. glue the denim rectangle onto the outside of the can. cover the 3" cardboard circles with fabric. make a yo-yo out of the remaining 4" fabric circle by turning the edge under about 1/4" and gathering all the way around with needle and thread, pull tight and flatten out. 

Comments

[katvanlew]

I do soak the tuna cans overnight in soapy water. I've made several of these and each one is different.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Very cute! I've always wanted to make paper beads and have yet to do it. Thanks for sharing how you make them! Also, how do you get the tuna can to not smell like tuna, because, for me, the smell never goes away?