Cut Glass Bottles With String. Why throw away your bottles when you can put them to use with a little arts and crafts.
With a few simple techniques you can turn any beer bottle into a cocktail glass. All your guests will think you’re so creative, talented, and fun to drink with. Plus, it involves fire! Overview: The goal is to ‘cut’ off the top of the bottles so only the base remains. Cut A Glass Bottle Perfectly Every Time. After a long work week Husband and I often get our TGIF on by sampling a new to us craft beer or wine – because drinking local is green, right?
Well, that and it gives me empty bottles to use in DIY projects. How To Easily Remove Labels From Glass. Are you ready to have your socks rocked off?
I am not even kidding. I have the magic ingredients on How to Easily Remove Labels from jars and containers without leaving that annoying adhesive residue behind! Hands down this is the best way to remove labels and I have tried them all! Romantic Glass Containers. On-a-Budget Bottle Décor. How to Make Painted Bottle Vases - DIY & Crafts. My cellar is cluttered with empty bottles and jars of different sizes and shapes that I have been storing for a long time.
I knew, that one day they will make a wonderful base for my next D.I.Y. project. Despite this, I always hated ornamented bottles or those with yarn wrapped around. While writing this post, I am planning to use a chalkboard paint next time. This time it will be regular, watercolor and the effect will be amazing. 22 Fun DIY Projects From Old Jars. It’s really amazing what all we can do with a jar.
They are ultimate inspiration for so manny DIY projects, and we’ll try to inspire you to make some of this 22 fun projects. Jacked Up Halloween Jars. Jar Crafts. 50 Ways To Re-Purpose & Reuse Glass Jars. 100 Clever Ways to Repurpose Mason Jars. If you’ve ever gotten lost on Pinterest or tried your hand at pretty much anything DIY, you’re probably besties with one iconic piece of glassware: The Mason Jar.
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny both its utility and inherent cuteness. For this month’s mega roundup, we’ve scoured the web to bring you the 100 most clever ways to repurpose a mason jar, canning jar, ball jar, or jam jar. And we promise not to use the word “jarring” more than once ;) 1. DIY Oil Lamp: It’s surprisingly easy to create your own nostalgic oil lamp, and a blue mason jar makes a very picturesque base. 2. 3. 4.
DIY Mason Jar Crafts, Food In Jars, & Canning Recipes - Put it in a Jar. Moss & Twine Wrapped Mason Jars. 6I had five free minutes the other day, so you know what I did?
Took a shower? No. Took a power nap? Nope. Mason Blue Glass Canning Jar DIY. These jars take their name from John Landis Mason.
Mason was a young inventor who came up with the concept of a metal screw-on lid in 1858. The threaded neck on glass jars that we take for granted today was once a major innovation. Mason's developments made preserving food at home much easier and made the jars reusable. Despite the fact that Mason sold five of his glass canning jar patents in 1859, his name had staying power. The mason jar is the common name for glass home canning jars to this day (source). In the spirit of optimism let's start with the good news...
The jars, in my humble yet clearly biased opinion, turned out pretty fantastic. I like the contrast of the yellow flowers... ...and the rustic feel of the cement wall behind them. Glass Jars Turned Vintage. Lately I've been intrigued by those lovely vintage blue glass jars you see on the tables of chic outdoor weddings.
I did a little bit of research on these, to see how economical they were in bulk, and found that they can range anywhere from $5-$15 per jar, depending on how rare they are. I was a bit surprised by this, and thought there had to be a better way to achieve the same look, so I went in search of a way to "dye" a regular quart sized jar, to mimic the look of the old Ball Perfect Mason Jars. Here's my photo recap: I used a product called Vitrea 160, which is a transparent color for glass, in a shade called turquoise.
I also purchased some thinner from the same product line, so I could get a really faint look. I flipped my jar upside down and placed it into another plastic tupperware container, then brushed the outside of the jar with the mixture in thin, even strokes from top to bottom. The best part of this project (besides the fact that it's super easy) is that it's cheap. Baking Soda Mason Jar Shaker. Baking soda is one of the hardest working ingredients in my house.
I have a box in the pantry for baking and cooking. I also have one box of baking soda in the freezer and one in the refrigerator to deodorize them. I hate a stinky fridge! I change the boxes in the refrigerator and freezer every 30 days or so – mostly or so. Not out of laziness but out of eventually-shoved-in-the-back-of-the-fridge forgetfulness. 16 Mason Jar Lid DIYs. I have a mason jar addiction. It started innocently enough. I had a cupboard full of empty mason jars after we ate the vegetables I canned from our tiny garden. The cupboard holding the empty canning jars in within arms reach of the kitchen counter while the cupboard holding the actual food storage containers is four steps to my left. Kitchen Safe.
Cut a tube (toilet paper or paper towel roll) about a half inch shorter than the height of your jar. Put the end of the tube on a piece of lightweight cardboard like posterboard and cut a circle about 1/2" wider all the way around. Cut 1/2 " slits around it so that you can glue it with a glue gun to the bottom of the tube as shown in the right of picture below. Note: Tube on right is upside down so that it can be better seen. The closed end will go bottom down into the other tube. Recycled Glass Bottle Suncatchers. "We have too much stuff in this garage! " Husband said as he navigated past my box of empty wine bottles in the garage. I haven't done anything clever with my impromptu bottle collection and the statue of limitations was up. I figured my next rainy day project would be clearing them out of the garage. But before I could say "recycling bin" DecorArt sent me a very generous assortment of Americana glass paints and reusable stencils.
Seriously, like the day after Husband and I had that conversation. I cut the bottoms off the empty flat bottomed bottles, stenciled them, and made recycled glass bottle sun catchers. Wine Bottle & Cork Crafts. Wine Bottle Crafts. Articles 1 - 10 of 47 << Prev 1 | | | | 10 Creative Uses For Empty Beer Bottles. I certainly don’t live in a frat house, but somehow I still find myself with an abundance of beer bottles. Maybe you do too? Barbecue, game day, celebration ... beer is a part of popular culture and most parties include the brew. So aside from recycling — which you’re already doing anyway, right? — have you ever considered what you could do with those leftover bottles (and also, how to use leftover beer around the house)? Well I did, and what follows are the best ideas I rounded up. Light Bulb Crafts. 8 Crafts Using Baby Food Jars. Mosaic Glass Bottle. Easy Pebble Votives Tutorial — Dream a Little Bigger.
I’m one of those lighting people. You know the type. If it’s day time all of the curtains have to be open so that the house is as light and bright as possible. At night, I like mood lighting. In fact, I used to collect little animal shaped tiffany lamps and I’d turn off all of the lights and only have my little frogs, kittens and turtles glowing. Poseidon's Bottle Mosaic.