STEP 2: Choose your favorite font {mine is LD Carefree Black, in case you couldn’t tell} and cut out the year. Adhere to your label.
I peeled the vinyl out of the ‘e’s’ and ‘o’ and then stuck the whole thing on my label.
Lookie! When I peeled it off, sure enough, there were my letters, nice and aligned just like Cammie cut them out. Except that the entire word may or may not be slightly crooked. Shhh. That’s just between you and me. Oh, and the rest of the blog-reading world. Poop.
STEP 3b: Admire. Ooooh. Aaaahhhh. And congratulate yourself on not spending money on transfer tape when washi tape works just as well.
STEP 4: Trace your lid onto scrapbook paper. Cut it out and Mod Podge it on. I put Mod Podge on the lid surface as well as over the top of the paper to make it waterproof and glossy.
I applied my Mod Podge with a super high-tech tool that you can’t imagine the price of. My finger. Ah, the secret habits of the Artsy Mama…
STEP 6: Tie a bow and glue it to the front.
*TIP* screw the lid on first, before you randomly place the bow. If your jar is like my jar, the same spot will always end up in front. Pretty nifty. Unless, of course, you glued your bow in the wrong place. Just sayin’. So yeah, replace lid first.
STEP 7: Enjoy! Begin inserting memories!!!
Sandra J. Strickler says
Beautiful!
Jessi @ Practically Functional says
Brilliant to use washi tape for that! I’ve just been using regular clear tape, but it’s a little too sticky…
Eva {Tales of the Scotts} says
That ended up super cute. And great tip for using washi tape in a pinch or for the small stuff. Cool!
Grandma says
Such a cute idea…Nice bow 🙂
I really like this.
Nikki Da Lovely says
My husband and I started a memory jar but we’ve been really bad about keeping up with it. I’m thinking about putting up it’s own shelf in a main area of our place so it’s easy to get to and a friendly reminder when we see it to actually write about our joys and fun memories we make with our little one.
Love what you did with your jar! It’s help give me a few ideas for the one we have. 🙂
Great post, and love your blog!
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Debbie Hall says
I made one for each of my four (grown) children this Christmas. I used a canning jar with a zinc lid and for the label I flattened a silverplated soup spoon, cut the handle off then metal stamped: THE______’S MEMORY JAR on one side. Then I drilled a hole at the top and bottom, added a few charms at the bottom and strung ball chain at the top. The label “necklace” fits over the jar lid. They say they are filling their jars already.