Monday 10 May 2010

Storage jar prettiness!



Hello!
As I have been organising my crafting room and making room for Nana to work here too I thought I'd show you some little makeovers....
I'll start with some Ikea Jars prettied up!
With help from this Great blog The graphics fairy I downloaded some labels to pretty up some plain jars that are currently holding my sparklies broken, odd, or just looking for a new lease of life AND a Jar of random tidbits that don't necessarily have somewhere to live!

So here's the before
Then after adding a cross stitch style font title to the label I printed it off and aged it up a bit with brown and black stamp pads and my trusty blender!!!! ( read here for more details)

Bit of glue and careful positioning and VOILA!!! (Shimples!)

I'm gonna link up to The Graphics Fairy's linky party 'BRAG MONDAY' for the first time today and hopefully make more of an effort to do so seeing as the BEST graphics I have ever used has come from there.
And actually probably a few in my sidebar also Metamorphosis Monday , Do it yourself Day, Trash to treasure Tuesday , Transformation Thursday, Show off your stuff Party , Show & Tell Friday
....Have a look at the sidebar for linky parties permanently displayed there, every day theres a whole host of fantastic inspiration at your fingertips!!
Will be back soon showing off an old plate rack bought for £1 that I've transformed into braid, button and ribbon holder!
Until next time
Annie x

17 comments:

Shabby Chick said...

Very cool Annie! Love the sound of the plate rack too :)

Mel xxx

Rachel said...

Hi, I love your blog and I LOVE those jars! Now feeling inspired, I'm of to print some for my own pot of randoms!

One Cheap B*tch said...

Great idea for dressing up jars!!!! I have so many sitting around my house and now I know what to do with them!

Jeanine

Jan Hennings said...

I love your idea of adding the label to the storage jars :)

Anonymous said...

Can't wait to see the plate rack.xx

Karen The Graphics Fairy said...

These look so pretty!!! I love the clever words you used on the label too, so fun! Thanks so much for linking this up to Brag Monday.

PetraB said...

Brilliant idea, love the labels!

Donna said...

Love your labels! You look so organized!

Sweet Bee Cottage said...

My dear - these are just so adorable! I love the little font you used and the aging is just so sweet! I love it!

Sandi~A Cottage Muse said...

I like my "stuff" to look pretty too! Thanks for the idea!

Kissed by an Angel said...

What a lovely idea!! They looks o pretty too!!
xxxx

FLOWERSHOPGURL said...

Hi Annie, What pretty jars, love that they are used for your supplies too! Can't wait to see more!
I recently did a post on a bird jar project you may be interested in. You may view it here if you wish: http://flowershopgurl.blogspot.com/2010/05/sunday-favorites_09.html

visitng from BNOP.
Hugz,
Kim

Cindy Adkins said...

Oh how precious! I love how you made these--fabulous!!
Hugs,
Cindy

Callies Cottage said...

Lovely jars!I was luckily enough to pick up a box of kilner jars at a car boot recently and have been finding all sorts of uses for them!
Warm Wishes,
Cally x

Unknown said...

So beautiful jars, love the idea!!1

Hugs
Charo

Hi! My name is erica. Would you be my friend? said...

I love jars filled with goodies! I can't wait to see what you do with the plate rack...

Thoughtfully Blended Hearts said...

This is a great idea and it is so pretty!!!