• Home
  • About
  • Disclosure and Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Browse

Stow&TellU

  • Home
  • DIY & Crafts
    • Craft Projects
    • Home Decor
    • Furniture
    • Storage and Space Saving
    • Holiday Ideas
    • Seasonal
    • LIghting
    • Rooms and Redesign
    • Garden & Outdoor
  • Daily Life
    • Recipes
    • Travel
    • Route 66
    • Perspective
  • Faux and Tell U
    • Faux Round-Ups
    • Faux Techniques and Projects
  • Resource Library
  • Freebies
Home » DIY & Crafts » Craft Projects » Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece

Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece

December 16, 2013 By Amy 12 Comments

16 Dec
1.3K shares
  • Share
  • Email

It’s snowing here… right now as a matter of fact. I look outside and everything is covered in white and glisten. I’m not going to break into song, I promise, but I really wanted to capture that snow covered look and bring it inside where it’s much warmer. So I mixed and measured and with a few house hold ingredients, I was able to come up with a texture mix that looks something like… snow covering. DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellUNow that I had the texture down, I wanted to snow cover something that I could use as Christmas decor, for a centerpiece, perhaps. Recently I made some paint dipped soup cans that I shared over at Inspiration Cafe.    A soup can, so simple, right? I guess I like the hint of industrial style in those ridges 😛  Does anyone else see that? Anyway, I figured, why not try and snow cover soup cans. They’ll just end up in the recycling bin.

How to make Snow Covered Texture on Soup Cans:

Supplies:

  • Soup cans (I used a coffee can for the centerpiece as well)
  • A few pieces of  corragated cardboard (about 4″ x 6″)
  • Craft sponge brush
  • Craft paints plain, metallic (or both)
  • White fine glitter (optional)
  • A plastic bin to catch the glitter (optional)
  • Snow Covered texture recipe (see below)

Snow Covered Texture Recipe:

Stir the following ingredients together until consistency is thick and smooth, kind of like cake frosting.

  • 1/2 Cup Baking Soda
  • 1/2 Cup White Glue
  • 1 or 2 Tablespoons of white craft paint
  • 1/4 Teaspoon warm water

DIY Snow Covered TextureI started off with some soups cans, emptied and with labels removed, of course.

DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU1I gave some but not all of the soup cans a few coats of craft paint both plain and metallic.

Tip:  I added a few sprinkles of baking soda into the paint mixture to help the paint stick to the tin cans more easily.

DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU2I mixed up the snow covered texture recipe.

To test the thickness, I folded several pieces of cardboard accordion style and then stood them up on their side.

I applied the snow covering to the top side of the cardboard and let it drip to make sure the consistency was to my preference. I let the test samples sit for about half and hour.

DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU4This let me see just how much dripping would occur. I had to adjust the thickness, as my first batch was a bit too thin.

You may like the texture to be thicker and less drippy. If so, add a bit more baking soda, and test again until satisfied. To thin out a bit, add a FEW drops of water or a bit more glue. Stir well.

DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU3With a sponge craft brush, I then applied a thick coat of the texture to the top of the soup can, allowing it to drip over both the inside and outside edge.

Next I held the can over a plastic bin and shook on a little bit of white glitter. I then placed the cans on a clean surface to dry overnight.

How to make your own DIY Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellUI applied the texture to most of the tips of the soup cans, and some to the bottoms of the soup cans.

How to make your own Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU3When all said and done, I had plenty enough to make a centerpiece with taper candles and a few other Christmassy tid-bits.

How to make your own Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU5

How to make your own Snow Covered Texture and a Soup Can Centerpiece -StowandTellU6

Snow-covered soup can centerpiece-StowandTellU.com

Snow-covered soup can centerpiece-StowandTellU.com

DIY Snow Covered Texture Texhnique-How to make your own Snow Texture-StowandTellU2Living in Chicago, you can’t avoid the winter – or the snow! I must admit when the snow starts to fall and cover everything outside, it really is pretty, though just a little bit prettier while still keeping warm~inside.

One could add snow covered texture to just about anything such as an old vase, a basket, a bird house… you name it because all you have to do is mix, apply and let it drip!

Do you have anything laying around the house that might look a tad bit more festive covered in snow?

How to make snow texture and 11 ways to make fake or faux snow | Stowandtellu.com

11 Ways to make pretend snow 

For more Christmas 2013

For more Soup Can projects

Thank you for stopping by. I hope your holiday season is going well. ~ Amy

Linking up to:

Christmas Junkers United

Enter your email address and receive my latest posts:

Delivered by FeedBurner

1.3K shares
  • Share
  • Email

Filed Under: Craft Projects, Faux Techniques and Projects, Holiday Ideas, Seasonal Tagged With: PAINT and TEXTURE, Tin can projects, WINTER AND CHRISTMAS

« She Wouldn’t Have it Any Other Way Keepsake Memorial Ornament
Chicken Wire Christmas Tree-O »

Comments

  1. Mel says

    December 16, 2013 at 7:57 am

    How fun and snowy, we have some crazy hot weather coming our way later this week maybe I should get some fake snow to cool us down!

    Reply
  2. Feral Turtle says

    December 16, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    This is gorgeous Amy!! I love it! Maybe you are onto the new snow paint recipe instead of chalk paint. You will be famous! We will call it Amy’s Snow Paint!!!! I see that the east coast is getting hit with some bad weather. Today Newfoundland is getting hammered so I suspect your snowfall is from the same system. We are in for more on Wednesday…..yikes. I am pinning this one!! Cheers.

    Reply
  3. heather f says

    December 16, 2013 at 3:16 pm

    I love this! I thought for half a second when I was reading over your list of ingredients that I saw TOOTH Paste, and I thought, DANG, she is clever! haha. Love these! So gorgeous.

    Reply
  4. SheilaG @ Plum Doodles says

    December 17, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    Oh, gosh, I love this idea, Amy- you’re a genius! Seriously, I want to make some. How fun to use soup cans, too- I love the upside down ones for pillar candles.

    Reply
  5. Alli says

    December 19, 2013 at 4:19 am

    I love that idea, Amy, but would have never thought of it. How awesome. I’m pinning! I just love soup cans. I just used them to hold flowers and greenery at my Carolina Coastal Christmas Party by wrapping them with jute, wide blue ribbon and glued a starfish to the ribbon. And now I have a great new way to use them. Thanks so much for sharing.

    Reply
  6. Doreen@househoneys says

    December 19, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    Super creative, super pretty, and super easy!

    I’m impressed Amy. Well done.

    Have a wonderful holiday, and if you REALLY want cold weather, I’m happy to trade 🙂

    Reply
  7. Sharon @ Elizabeth & Co. says

    December 22, 2013 at 7:26 am

    Gosh Amy, what a super cute idea!

    Reply
  8. Pam says

    April 22, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    Love this and want to try on glass jar luminaries. What are you using to keep the pillar candles in place? Melted wax?

    Reply
    • Amy says

      May 28, 2019 at 9:19 pm

      Hey Pam,
      I apologize for the delayed response. We were away the blog doing a townhouse rehab to urgently put on the market. Between working my full time job and working on the townhouse, I was not checking emails. But in answer to your question, I think I used sugar, but it also could have been rice. Both of those should work, so should fish tank gravel or something similar. Perhaps even those clear glass beads or glass pebbles since you are using glass luminaries. I hope this helps give you some ideas of what to use. Thanks so much and once again, I apologize for the delayed reply. Amy

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Chicken Wire Christmas Tree-O | Stow&TellU says:
    December 22, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    […] basement remodel but I wanted to add a few Christmassy touches to the place. You may have seen the faux snow soup can centerpiece, but I still wanted something that I could add lights to. Something in the Christmas tree family […]

    Reply
  2. Paint Dipped Herb Tins. Free with a Can of Soup! | Stow&TellU says:
    January 16, 2014 at 4:31 am

    […] guilty as charged… I like making soup and tin can projects…as in most recently with soup can centerpiece for the holidays and last spring with a tin can pin cushion caddy.   I figure, if they’re […]

    Reply
  3. 11+ Ways to Make Your Own Faux Snow | Stow&TellU says:
    December 14, 2014 at 4:30 am

    […] can use this recipe, which includes just two common craft products to make a “melting faux snow” texture […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Looking for Something

Hey! We’re Ken and Amy and we’re here to help you inexpensively turn your home into a cozier living space one DIY project at a time. Read more

Browse by Category

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Home
  • About
  • Disclosure and Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Browse

Amazon Associates Disclosure

Stow and Tell U is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an associate, we earn from qualifying purchases designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Copyright

You’re welcome and encouraged to link to StowAndTellU.com or use a SINGLE image with a brief description and a visible link back to any post. Republishing posts in their entirety is prohibited. Please feel free to pin on Pinterest!

Disclaimer

We love sharing ideas and projects with you, however, we cannot guarantee everything will also work for you. As the reader, you assume any risks involved when completing projects seen on this site. We are not personally liable for projects that are completed based on the ideas and inspiration shared here.

Copyright © 2022 · Stow and Tell U

1264 shares