Supplies:

Wide mouth mason jar (I use Ball Canning jars)
Vinyl decal or sticker
Mod Podge
Paint (I used black and white but you can use any two colors)
Glitter
Paint brushes
Painter’s tape
(optional) Acrylic sealer

Place your decal on the mason jar wherever it has the least about of raised lettering. I cut this snowflake out on scrap vinyl with my Silhouette CAMEO but you can use any shape, any color, or any sticker.

Next, apply a light layer of Mod Podge over your decal/sticker – this will ensure that instead paint that might get under the decal/sticker edge it is clear Mod Podge instead. Let dry 15 min or so.

Next, starting right under the rim, make 2 stripes with 1″ wide painter’s tape. Paint the exposed glass with one of your colors.

Let the first coat dry. Paint a 2nd coat of the same color and then before the 2nd coat dries pull off the painter’s tape.

Using a flat edge brush I hand painted the black stripes. I did this for two reasons: 1) I am very impatient and I did not want to wait for the white to completely dry before moving on and 2) Paint doesn’t necessarily want to stick to glass, especially acrylic paint, so I feared that covering up the white with painter’s tape to paint the black would result in the white paint pulling off of the glass. Hand painting 2 stripes is pretty simple, you an totally do it!!

Before the 2nd coat of your 2nd paint dries it’s time to pull up the decal or sticker you used. Using a snowflake might not have been the best way to go, it wasn’t easy pulling up all those points of the snowflake. I think a Christmas Tree or reindeer would have been a little easier. As you can see below I had a little issue in the lower left hand side of the snowflake – but no big deal I just used my painted brush and hand brushed in the parts that peeled away when I was removing the decal.

The only thing left is to brush Mod Podge all inside your jar and shake away with the glitter. Once you’ve got a good coat you an choose to spray acrylic sealer inside the jar, on top of the glitter, to help it from shedding.

To add some extra shimmer to all that glitter drop in an LED tea light, you can pick them up in almost every candle section these days. I would just hold back on placing a real open fame due to all the glitter and sealer.

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Ok, so now that you have your machine and your printable white sticker paper we are ready to go!

First, you can either import your own images to print or you can open the Silhouette Store inside Silhouette Studio and purchase a print and cut image. If you bring your own images in you will have to trace them so they are ready to cut. However, if you buy the print and cut files from the store they are ready to go.

This is how you filter and search for Print and Cut images. They will all have a small blue “P” in the corner of the image.

Second, turn the registration marks on. Turning the registration marks on will show you the workable surface you have left on your sticker paper. Those registration marks help the machine line up your sticker paper and guide it to where to cut. I like to load my workable surface up with as many designs or stickers as I am going to need. There is really no going back to reuse your sticker paper, so make it count!

Third, don’t forget you can zoom in to get a better feel for the sizing and design on your print and cut labels. You are free to use ANY fonts you have uploaded on to your computer!

Fourth, You MUST make sure that any of the text you added is not selected to cut. The best way to do this is to go to the Cut Style Window and make sure that ONLY the edges of your designs are going to cut. If you find any text or other graphics with a red line around them that you don’t want cut, just select the text/image and then click “No Cut.”

Fifth, once you are set with your label designs go ahead and send it to the printer. It will print out the needed registration marks. This photo got a little washed out but you can see the registration marks.

Sixth, line up the corner of your sticker paper with the upper left hand corner of your cutting mat. Make sure that the filled in square is in the upper left hand corner. It will not work if you position it anywhere else. Pick the cut settings for the “Printable Sticker Paper” and let ‘er rip. I mean cut. Once you’ve taken off all the “extra” sticker paper, or weeded the design, you should be left with this – a sheet of personalized labels!!

However, if you don’t pay attention to what your blade is set at this is what you will be left with. They can still be used it’s just a tad bit tougher to get the backing of the labels.

Seventh, and final, step – start labeling anything that will sit still.

Make sure no one takes your books!

Or your composition book!

These labels are great to create an organized art or homework station; just stick them on some mason jars!

We even now have a place to store all of our sight word flashcards.

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You will need a mini, hi-temp hot glue gun to use the Mod Podge glue sticks, but you can find those pretty much anywhere for under $5 if you don’t already have one.

Supplies:

• Mod Melts Mold (they come in several fun varieties)
• Mod Melts (the “glue” sticks) & a mini hi-temp glue gun
• Paints of your choice
• Dabber style paint brush
• Baker’s twine cut into 1 yard pieces (1 per jar)

Step 1) After your glue gun is HOT squeeze the Mod Melts into your mold. Use the nozzle of the gun to really get in all the crevices to get the most detail in your final product. You can do 1 mold at a time or go ahead and fill all of them at once.

Step 2) To make the embellishments into Jar Jewelry place the middle of your baker’s twine lengthwise onto the still hot Mod Melts. You’ll have to work quickly because the Mod Melts set pretty fast.

Step 3) Wait about 5 minutes and then pop your embellishments out of the mold, they will pop right out!

Step 4) Trim any Mod Melt from around the edges of your embellishments, they cut easily with scissors, and paint them any color you desire! The Mod Melts take paint really well, and it’s a lot of fun to layer the paint to create different effects.

Step 5) Tie the twine around the tops of your mason jars.

You can also attach the painted embellishments to a strip of paper to coordinate your silverware rolls, too!

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