Lastnight I came home from work & showed Kyle, my boyfriend, the Valentine's Day things that I had been making that day. He really thought they were neat, after seeing them it struck a creative spark in Kyle. So we started crafting together. I love when these nights or days happen so I decided that I would post pictures & show you all.I have been on a kick/fascination with doing projects with jars. The Valentine's that I am making are out of baby food jars. (Post on this to come). So Kyle wanted to make one of his own, not inspired by any Holiday but by things that represent him. (Also post on this to come; whispers: his isn't done yet)
While on my many internet searches for inspiration, I came accross this post, where a blogger had used jars as picture frames. I thought that this was such a great way to recycle old jars. This is what I ended up with lastnight, you can probably figured out what the steps are by just looking at the picture but I am going to give them to you anyways haha:
1.)What you will need is a jar with a lid, the size is completely up to you. Make sure that the jar is cleaned well & completely dried out before starting project.
2.)Next I went on a search for two pictures. Couple things to keep in mind: make sure that the pictures will fit into the jar & are large enough that when you bend pictures they fit in along the sides. If pictures aren't big enough they won't adhere, to the side of the jar naturally & fall to the bottom. If this happen you will probably need to use some kind of adhesive.
3.)I started looking around the house for things that I wanted incorporate with the picture & the jar. My intial idea was to make kind of a snow globe & but some fake grass in the bottom, etc etc. Sounded great at the time but it wasn't turning out great. Our faces were distorted & just didn't look good. You can see what I mean in the second picture.
So I decided to put the pictures on the inside of the jar facing outwards, bending pictures very little to get them into the jar & placing as desired.
I found some burlap laying around that wasn't being used so I thought that this would be a nice effect & also will hide the pasta shells around the top & bottom of the jar. Then I had a wooden dowel from a previous project that I used kind of as a handle.
4.) Now that I have all my supplies, I was ready to warm-up the ole hot glue gun & get constructing.
5.) The jar that I had picked out really helped with gluing the burlap, it had a fine line around the rim that I just lined with glue & stuck the burlap to. Then I just took some left over burlap & glued it to the top of the jar, which was the bottom, once that dried I adhered the wooden dowel.
6.) Finished product, the nice thing about this project, is that you can use this like a frame & switch out pictures. (OHHHH, switch them out for the seasons! That would be so awesome!)
After all said & done, I came up with the conclusion that I really didn't need to turn the jar upside down, I could have just left the jar right side up. Some things that I would like to do in the future is use buttons, glue many jars together to make a collage, do a larger jar, etc.
The first picture from top is sweet, sweet Kyle, he is picking out paper to start his project. The second picture is the jar frame in progess & last picture is the finished project.
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