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in this video I'm going to show you how
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to turn your old food containers you
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know those plastic ones that you never
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know what to do with and turn them into
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sweet Easter baskets for the children or
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for display purposes so take your
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plastic pot and then you're just going
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to stick some glue on it now what glue
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you ask any PVA based glue water-based
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glue they do special deccoage ones like
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Modge Podge but to be honest you can use
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any and then you're going to get some
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paper now I'm using paper napkins which
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are ideal cuz you want some really soft
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paper that will flex and bend really
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easily uh you can see mine's a cute
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Easter bunny um and you just tear it up
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into little pieces and then you stick
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them on so the way you do your decopage
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is you apply the glue to the container
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then you apply your piece of paper and
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glue all over the top to seal it and you
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can smooth it all down now how good you
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are at this and how well you smooth it
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down doesn't really matter really don't
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worry little wrinkles all part of the
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fun and if your containers are like mine
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they've got lots of lumps and bumps
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anyway they don't tend to be perfectly
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flat unless you're using a cardboard box
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which you can do by the way you could
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use any container you've got to do
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this um so long as you don't want it
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again cuz you're going to cover it in
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glue and paper uh and you just keep
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going so you can see you go around all
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the curves and cover the entire thing
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how much you overlap is up to you it
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really doesn't matter and you just keep
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going and going and going the larger the
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pieces of paper the quicker you'll cover
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it but the harder it is to do all the
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detail and you'll see I've got a little
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lip on the top of mine and I'm just
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making sure it pushes in there so we get
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a nice smooth finish and then over the
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edge so that we cover it and keep cup I
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don't know what I'm trying to say there
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keep working all the way around until
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you've covered the whole
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thing um and then you're just going to
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have to leave it to dry the glue can
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take a little while if you're on a sunny
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day all the better if not you'll just
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have to wait a bit longer but just make
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sure it is completely dry before you try
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and carry on or you'll have some
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difficulties like I did because I didn't
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wait until it was completely dry because
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I wanted to get on with filming this for
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you so you could make these any color
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you want you could do any theme if
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you've got boys who were into Spider-Man
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for example you could do a Spider-Man
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one if you've got some servettes from a
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party or you could theme them just for
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Easter like I'm doing or maybe some
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ones just spring colors
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and then let that dry and then I
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recommend repeating the whole process
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again on the inside now this is optional
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you could just leave the inside as it is
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but they do look a lot better if you
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make sure you get right over the edge
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and cover the whole inside especially if
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you're going to give it to children to
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fill with eggs it looks better if it's
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all covered um so if you're enjoying
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this could you give me a thumbs up below
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so that it spreads to more people and
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keep going you'll find decopage is
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really relaxing actually you just get
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into a rhythm obviously I've sped this
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up but you can just sit there relax and
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just keep applying it and actually I've
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got to say I really enjoy it my biggest
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piece is a table would you believe um so
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you can get carried away with
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decopage once you're happy with it you
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just got to leave it to dry again now
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you'll see that I'm just going to touch
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up the bottom and the edges and things
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because I carried on when it wasn't
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really dry if yours is dry no need to do
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this and in fact it won't make a jot of
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difference because it'll already be hard
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then you can think about a handle so you
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could use it exactly as it is or you can
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get a handle now mine or my little
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blueberry pot is an inch wide and 12 in
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long but those measurements mean nothing
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to you just cut yours so it looks right
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against your pot and then you can glue
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it tape it or staple it in place now I'm
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stapling it it's quick and easy and
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immediate if you glue it you'll probably
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have to use a clothes peg or something
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to hold it in place while the glue dries
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you could put your handle on the outside
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or the inside and you can make your
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handle as strong as you like just glue
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extra layers together or fold layers
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together to give you a stronger handle
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i'm happy with mine and I think it'll be
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fine for the few little eggs that'll be
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going in it and there you go you'll have
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a basket and off you go you can make
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loads of them hope you've enjoyed this
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and I hope you'll have a great Easter
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with all your Easter eggs in your Easter
