The girls and I took to the yard yesterday to work on some glass jars I’d been collecting. I’m sure I saw this idea on the Craft blog but now I can’t find the link anywhere. Anyways, the person used glow-in-the-dark star stickers and frosted glass spray paint to make some decorative lanterns out of glass jars. I borrowed heavily from this idea.
I used letter stickers on big spaghetti sauce jars (and one jelly jar) and let my little munchkins play around with the star stickers and little artichoke hearts jars. It was a gorgeous day and the girls enjoyed alternating between playing in the yard and sticking stickers on their jars.
Actually Charlotte had her own ideas about where the stars should go.
Later in the day I sprayed over them with the spray paint. Just a note for those interested in doing this project…get more paint than you think you’ll need. The jars look better with a few coats of spray paint. I only got one can and after seeing them with the candles lit inside, there is definitely a difference between the first jars I sprayed and the ones that got sprayed towards the end when I started running out of paint.
Also, you have to be very careful when lifting the stickers not to lift the paint off, too. I would suggest doing a practice jar to kind of get the hang of it.
Some of my stickers left a little residue behind, so I used a q-tip and some Goof Off to carefully remove it.
They look beautiful along our entryway leading up to our door. Plus, I got a nifty new banner out of it!
Ooooh I love those!!!! So pretty!!
HEY!!! I JUST looked at some of your flickr photos from fusing plastic bags - u need to be selling that stuff on Etsy - seriously! OR are you already and I don’t know about it :)…
Darn your awesome creativity. Makes me feel pretty darn inadequate.
great idea! i have a million old jars just waiting for this project!
Watch out jars! Once I find the frosted glass spray, we’re going to have lots of fun!
Very pretty - and I love the new banner!