{"id":5426,"date":"2014-10-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:11:45","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-soda-can-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5426","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Soda Can Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drink Can Box by Atomic Shrimp<\/p><\/div>\n

My inspiration for this project is an embossed aluminum box by Atomic Shrimp<\/a>.\u00a0 I read the directions, I watched the video–I even watched the FAQ video linked at the end of the instructional video. I still ended up doing a few things differently–but mostly I followed directions. I can do that. Sometimes.<\/p>\n

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We begin with a can of my favorite soda. My can is not as big as those for energy drinks, so I have less room to work with. This is the diagram from Atomic Shrimp. I didn’t end up using it.<\/p>\n

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First: cut an aluminum sheet out of the can. I found it was easier to start the top end with an craft knife, then I cut the rest with scissors.<\/p>\n

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In the video, he sands the paint off a full drink can. In the photo tutorial, he tapes down the cut out sheet. I preferred the latter. We used to go to a bakery that was right by a nail salon. The salon gave out maintenance kits that sometimes got dropped on the way to the car. That is how I obtained the free block sander that worked perfectly for this project.<\/p>\n

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I figured out a box shape that would use as much of the can as possible. Graph paper was my friend, as I am terrible at measuring things.<\/p>\n

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I incised the guide lines with a ball-point pen. I was a little too careful of breaking the metal, and didn’t push hard enough. Most of these lines had to be re-incised later.<\/p>\n

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Note the double-lines on the flap. That’s so the flap can fold over sharply without breaking.<\/p>\n

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I drew some light lines to guide my design.<\/p>\n

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I incised the design with a ball-point pen on the inside of the box.<\/p>\n

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To go around the design on the outside, I used a stylus, since I didn’t want ink to show. At this point, for no real reason, I decided it was time to cut out the box.\u00a0 Here’s something I modified: I cut the corners of the flaps at a slight angle. This makes them fold over and fit much more easily.<\/p>\n

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Now the inside has been re-incised, and the design is complete.\u00a0 GREAT BIG IMPORTANT NOTE: If your hands are weak or injured, don’t even try this. All the pressing to incise the design hurt. A lot. My mild tendonitis flared up like mad, and I was in a wrist brace for weeks. Heed my warning–this project is for tough fingers.<\/p>\n

I notice the metal is a bit curvy. That’s going to make it hard to fold.<\/p>\n

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Naturally, I iron it. It took a few minutes on high heat, but it didn’t hurt the design, and it helped flatten the metal sheet quite a bit.<\/p>\n

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The corners got incised on the top side so they’d bend properly, and I folded according to instructions. I could have used an extra hand, but it turned out okay.<\/p>\n

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To make the bottom half, the center is 1\/4″ smaller, and the sides are as much bigger as I could get out of the material.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t want to do any more hand incising, because OWIE, so I decided to try running the sheet through an embossing machine. I chose a kind of mottled gothic pattern.<\/p>\n

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It isn’t as deep, but it still looks pretty nice.<\/p>\n

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I decided not to sand the bottom, because I didn’t need a clear field to incise the design. This way I get to see where the box came from.<\/p>\n

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The lid is a little big, but I like it! Though I have to admit, I wouldn’t do it again by hand.<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: this thing is pretty delicate, but I think I can ship it.<\/p>\n

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My inspiration for this project is an embossed aluminum box by Atomic Shrimp.\u00a0 I read the directions, I watched the video–I even watched the FAQ video linked at the end of the instructional video. I still ended up doing a few things differently–but mostly I followed directions. I can do that. Sometimes. We begin with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}