What to do with those tomato soup cans???

 

 This is what you do with them:

1. Empty them of the tomato soup, or the black olives, or the crushed pineapple, or whatever.

2. Wash and dry them.

3. Buy some acrylic paints at Walmart, 50¢ per bottle. Be sure to buy white, so you can tone down some of the colors, if you wish.

4. Buy a little bit of Plaster of Paris. You won't need much.

5. Mix together the paint, a dab of Plaster of Paris, and a dab of water.

6. Give the cans 2-3 coats of your homemade chalk paint. I used a foam brush.

7. Google "free vintage labels" and print the ones which appeal to you.

8. Glue the labels to the painted cans with good ol' Elmer's.

9. As a finishing touch, if you wish, spray the cans with an acrylic sealer. 

10. Pick some flowers.

11. Voila! Fresh flowers in pretty and inexpensive tin can "vases."