Lilies and Cupcakes

Lilies are my favorite flowers.  Especially star gazer lilies so I decided to paint one on one of my jars.  I also love the color pink so I painted one of the jars neon pink.  Then I added ice cream cones and cupcakes to the mix.

The cupcakes and ice cream cones are made out of Sculpey oven bake clay.

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Sail Away

I have lots of mason jar projects coming up because of my Etsy store.  The jar of the day is my nautical jar.  This one is dedicated  to my Grandpa who is no longer with us.  Him and my dad always wanted a sail boat.  I tend to like them too.  It may be the beach bum in me!

These Craft Smart paints are the least expensive ones at Michael's but they do the job.  I fell in love with this color as soon as I saw it.  So of course I had to buy it.

This is all hand painted.  Once the blue has a few coats and is dry start painting your birds and sail boats.

This is a braided piece of twine.  Just braid it like you would braid your own hair.

This was my easiest mason jar project but one of my favorites.  Of course I love all the pink ones I make but this one was one of the top 3.

Hangin' with the Gnomies

My mom and I love gnomes.  Actually that big garden gnome in the background was a project this past summer.  I had to revive his lovely paint because he turned into a metal lifeless looking statue.

You just start by using red paint.  A few coats will be needed.

Once the paint dries take sand paper (and an emery board for the letters on the jar) and just sand down the jar.  This is how you achieve the distressed look.

The gnome and the mushroom are made out of Sculpey oven bake clay.

Valentine's Day Mason Jars

Valentine's Day is coming up!  I know I'm kind of late to the party but all three of these jars have taken some time and I was also away on business.  

All supplies were bought at Michael's.

Let's go back in time

I don't have a tutorial for these because they are all hand painted.  For some reason Elvis didn't come out the way I wanted him to, BUT I love the way Audrey and Marilyn came out.  

DIY Tribal Nail Art

For this part of the design I free handed everything.

For this I use nail pens from Nail Chic.  They are seriously the best tool for nail art.

That's it!  I hope you get to try this one day!  I used OPI and Sally Hansen nail polish.  I use Sally Hansen Maximum Shield as the base coat and OPI for the top coat.

Recyled Bottles

I found this picture online about 2 years ago.  I feel horrible because I have no link that I got it from.  If someone knows who the credit should be given to for this please leave it in the comments section below!  Anyway, I wanted to copy this because I just loved this picture so much.

I used an old Zywiec beer bottle and these bottles.  They are small Vitamin C drinks.  I was sick over the summer and started drinking lots of Vitamin C.  I'm soaking them in order to get all of the labels off.

Most of the extra materials for this (the wire, the flowers, and the butterfly) are from Michael's.  The rest of the materials and tools are from my mom's closet.

You have to take the flowers in bunches and sew them together, or use the gold wire to take them into a mini bouquet.  Then sew the rest of the little accessories on as well.  You can either leave them like this for center pieces or keep scrolling to see how I hung them.

Just add the wire and make sure it is secure because these will be hanging and they are glass.

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