Altered Olive Jar

The challenge was Theme: Have yourself a GREEN Christmas and the Color Challenge for MPTS forum. I’ve been wanting to try my hand at altering a glass jar for some time now. I’ve kept old food jars of all shape and sizes and I knew right away what I would use. My husband came home last week with a new pack of coffee filters. I thought hmmmm….we’ll never use them all as we already had a pack that‘s been in the cabinet forever now. Well, much to my surprise I have a new use for them so I took the ones that were all bent out of shape to use for this project. He had given me some beautiful yellow roses with pink tips many years ago. I loved them so much that I decided to hang dry them and kept not knowing what I would do with them. When I seen the color challenge on the forum I just had to pull them out to use on this project. Killed two birds with one stone I thought, hehe.

First, I crumpled and tore the coffee filters, ink them with coordinating colors for the project. I used mod podge to adhere them to the jar and let dry. I then took another coffee filter and punched the edges with a lace punch. This gave it a distressed look as the filter kept tearing on the edges but I liked the look. It reminded me of antique lace so I went with the flow as now the project was taking on a life of it’s own. I covered the old lid with the laced edge filter and glued down with more mod podge. One the background was set I was ready to decorate the lid and jar.

I took a dried rose for the center and then I broke apart another to piece them into this one big rose to use for the top. I punched some paper flowers from green cardstock and used then as leaves. I also used some of the Recollection holly leaves I had laying around and intertwined them with the punched leaves. Once I was completed with the rose, I attached more petals, added buttons to the make the ruffle on the edge of the coffee filter and glued the lace trim in place.

I found some awesome ribbon in a scrap pile that I’ve had forever and it wasn’t enough to cover the jar. There was a gap just large enough for an embellishment to go in the center of it. Not sure what to do, I decided to use my trusty Spellbinder dies to cut a circle and scallop to stack,, they were large enough to fit the space. I then wanted to stay with a holiday theme project so I added the snowflakes for the center and topped them off with a pearl. Walla, it was completed.

I was so pleasantly surprised to find that the project was done and I love it. It’s so me……LOL.

Project items include:
Old olive jar
Coffee filters

Scrap ribbon and cardstock

Mod Podge (Mat Finish)

Ink UP Stamping Inks

Martha Stewart Snowflake and Lace punches

EK Success 6 petal flower punch

Spellbinders Nestability Dies

Recollection: Pearls and Paper leaves

Dried Flowers

Buttons