How to Make Valentine Mason Jars
These Valentine's mason jar lanterns are SO PRETTY! Have fun making this easy DIY craft to decorate your home. These "stained glass" luminaries also make a thoughtful handmade gift.
Yield: 1 mason jar lantern
Cost: $3
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Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Decoupage the jar
- Gather bleeding tissue paper in complementary shades. You'll want at least 4 colours.
- Cut the tissue paper into little squares, about 1 inch in size. It's okay if they're a bit bigger or not uniform.
- Add white glue to the outside of a clean mason jar, working 1 side at a time.
- Use a paintbrush to spread the glue around.
- Add squares of tissue paper into the glue, overlapping them.
- Use the paintbrush to press the tissue paper down, so the glue soaks through.
- Continue adding tissue paper pieces to the jar and using the brush to adhere them into the glue. Add more glue if necessary.
- Repeat this process until the whole jar is covered up to the neck. Allow to dry.
Step 3: Add a stained glass design
- Use pencil to draw a stained glass design on your jar, with a heart in the center. You can trace one of our heart outlines if you want help drawing a perfect heart.
- Then use black puffy paint to trace the stained glass design.Move very slowly and carefully, using even pressure on the bottle. Make sure you shake it well and do a test on some scrap paper first, to remove any air bubbles.
- Repeat around the rest of the jar, holding it very carefully at the neck so the paint doesn't smudge on other sides while you're working.
- Then add a line of paint around the top of the jar, just below the neck. Allow puffy paint to dry.
- Your Valentine's mason jar lantern is complete!
- Now add a flameless tealight and watch your Valentine luminary glow!
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Looking for more heart crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Tissue Paper Valentines
Clay Conversation Hearts
Glass Bead Heart Suncatcher