Wildflower Mason Jar Tutorial

Hello friends! I have a Sizzix tutorial for you today, inspired by picking beautiful summer wildflowers.

I wanted a whole lot of colorful wildflowers in the two vases, and decided to set them against a neutral, but textured background. The background can be used for many types of projects and the flowers would also look lovely on a card or maybe a scrapbooking page. I used Tim Holtz's Flower Jar stamp set and coordinating dies for the flowers and mason jars.

I started out by die cutting a bunch of stitched circles from heavystock paper, not yet having much of a plan of what I was going to do.

Glue the circles on the background using Matte Medium. I used a paint brush and made sure to pull the medium from the top to the bottom, to create a linen-like texture.

Apply a layer of gesso over the tag, working with a paint brush from side to side to create brush strokes.

Smear texture paste through the Roses stencil with a palette knife. Leave to dry completely.

Paint the tag with watered down Distress Paints, misting the whole tag with water now and then to get the effect that you want.

Stamp the wildflowers on white Paper Leather, or watercolor paper, using black and green Archival Inks. Paper Leather takes stamping and ink really well and is a very durable surface perfect for these detailed flowers. The finished flowers are pretty strong and don't tear or break easily.

Stamp the two jars on Wendy Vecchi Clearly for Art Modeling Film, using Stazon ink.

Die cut the flowers and jars using the coordinating dies. The dies are very helpful when it comes to cutting these fine and detailed flowers, which would have taken forever to do by hand. Use this sandwich: Sizzix Magnetic Platform, Cutting Pad, paper, die facing down, second Cutting Pad. The die will not cut through the strong Modeling Film completely, but will give you an impression that you can easily cut along with a pair of scissors.

Smear Distress Inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush to color the flowers.

Color the two jars with alcohol ink - making sure that you work on the back, otherwise you will smear the stamped impression.

Use a heat gun and heat the modeling film until it can be shaped, making dimensional jars. Be careful not to burn yourself. The film keeps it's shape perfectly.

If you look closely at the background, you can see the linen texture created by the brush strokes made with the matte medium and the gesso. Distress the edges of the tag. The crinkle ribbon was dyed with Distress Ink.

The tag was embellished with phrases from the Clippings Stickers set. The background was also stamped with a script stamp, which I forgot to take a step photo of.

I used fabric and lace trim to imitate a table cloth for the mason jars to stand on.

I also stapled some baker's twine and tied a string of pink twine around the tag.

I layered the flowers into the jars, tucking an extra one in here and there.

The flowers would look lovely on their own too.

Here you can see the dimension of the jars better. I glued them with matte medium, which dries invisible.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Sizzix Framelits Die Set 16PK - Flower Jar	Sizzix Framelits Die Set 6PK - Stitched Circles	Tim Holtz FLOWER JAR	Sizzix Movers & Shapers L Die - Tag & Bookplates	Tim Holtz ROSES
Tim Holtz LEDGER SCRIPT	Sizzix Paper Leather Sheets - 8 1/2" x 11" White, 10 Pack	Wendy Vecchi Modeling Film CLEAR	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress 8.5 X 11 MIXED MEDIA HEAVYSTOCK	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CLIPPINGS
Tim Holtz Idea-ology CRINKLE RIBBON	Tim Holtz PAPER STRING STRIPES	Tim Holtz JUTE STRING	Tim Holtz LACE Trimmings	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FERN GREEN
Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Mixed Media Palette	Tsukineko JET BLACK STAZON	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE
Tim Holtz Distress Paint WALNUT STAIN	Tim Holtz Distress Paint ANTIQUE LINEN	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink AQUA Adirondack	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink TEAKWOOD Adirondack
Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK MUSTARD SEED	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK SALTY OCEAN	Tim Holtz Distress Ink WILTED VIOLET	Tim Holtz Distress Ink WORN LIPSTICK
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PICKED RASPBERRY	Tim Holtz Distress INK SHABBY SHUTTERS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PEELED PAINT	Tim Holtz Distress Ink TWISTED CITRON	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK MOWED LAWN
Big Shot Machine	Standard Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies	Cutting Pads, Standard, 1 Pair (Grape)	Tim Holtz Tonic MINI SNIPS	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3
Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET
Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER

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