How Cute! How simple!
How economically and environmentally smart!
Oh how I wish I could take credit for the following creative idea but, alas, I cannot. This idea came from an email full of awesome ideas and savings tips for stay at home moms. This is was one project I absolutely had to do.
1. Start with an empty and smooth glass jar.
Here we have an empty Smuckers Concord Grape jelly jar. All you need to do is remove the label and wash the insides. No need to spend hours trying to scrub the sticky glue residue from the label off since you're just going to be decorating over it. Totally just made this more appealing to you, huh?
2. Pick any piece of scrapbook paper that catches your eye and cut to fit your jar.
The jar below isn't quite finished. In the first picture where you can see where the ribbon meets is supposed to be a blue or brown or cream colored button. I cannot find my buttons to save my life right now and I haven't been over to my mom's to steal one from her.
3. Coat the backside of your scrapbook paper with Mod Podge and wrap around your jar. Be sure to smooth out your paper to avoid any air pockets. Let dry for 10-15 minutes. Then brush an coating of Mod Podge to the outside of the paper. This will seal the paper making it water resistant. Let dry for 10-15 minutes. Brush on a second coat, let dry and brush on a third coat let dry.
Then if you want to you can chose to embellish your jars with ribbons, bows, buttons and more. But sometimes the jars are more beautiful just being left alone. Case in point: the Cross jar below.
I love it. Out of the hundreds of sheets of scrapbook paper at Hobby Lobby my eye was drawn immediately to this paper. My problem lies with the fact that I saved this jar for last to be sure that I didn't ruin the paper. And since I embellished the other jars I feel the need to embellish this one as well. But I don't know what to do!!!
Do I embellish with a contrasting green?
Do I embellish with a complimentary brown?
Or do I just let the natural beauty of God's creations and the simplicity of the crosses work together and not ruin it by adding unnecessary bling?
