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Canning Jar Label Tutorial

Hello friends!

I plant a large garden every year and then every fall I do a lot of canning. As you remember I did a cute tutorial awhile back for a canning jar box  and so I thought I would elaborate on the way I use my Cricut with my canning.  For everything I can, I made labels for the lids so I thought I would share how I do that.

First, I went and downloaded the Circle 1 Dingbats Font (Silhouette) [you could also use Circle 2 Dingats Font (Silhouette)] and install it on my computer.

I then open a new project on my Cricut and add a circle shape. 2.4 inches for wide mouth and 2 inches for regular mouth. I also like to turn the color to a light color so I can see my dingbat over top.

Then I add text and change my font to LW Circle 1 Dingbats. I selected the letter E for my dingbat.

 

I then shrink my dingbat down to fit within my circle. This ended up being 1.845 x 1.868 on a regular mouth sized label.

Then I change my Operation from basic cut to pen. I use the .4 mm fine point pen.

I then go in and add text as to what’s in my jar. The top font is LW Thankful and the bottom is LW Longhand.

Make sure to change your operation again to pen.

I will add the year as well. Once I have everything on my label and laid out how I want it, and everything except the circle (shown in pink) is changed to pen, I select the entire label, circle, words, dingbat, and on the bottom right, I click “attach”.

 

This keeps everything in place on the label when cutting and drawing the label.

At this point, you can select the label you have created and copy and paste it to make more of that same label. You can also copy and paste it and increase or decrease the size the make both regular mouth and wide mouth labels.

If you would rather have a cute label for the jar instead of the lid, the Label Shape Bundles 1-5 would make great jar labels (instead of using the circle). I also used the Mason Jar Dingbats on the label from the labels shape bundle below.

 

This is what it looks like all drawn and cut and on my jars.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Mason Jar Box

Hello! I love when my 2 worlds collide, canning and scrapbooking. I recently canned some green stuff (jalapeno mustard for pretzels) and I always love to be able to gift it and make it look cute. I recently came across these Mason Jar Box Half Pint (SVG, Silhouette). I decided to make a few of these for my yummy green stuff.

Mason Jar Box Half Pint

 

First I cut all my pieces and I did add a little piece of acetate behind the window.

I added my pattern paper to the box after I added the acetate to the inside of the window. I added score tape to the 2 flaps to assemble the box.

I folded in the 2nd large flap 1st.

The I folded in my 2 smaller flaps to make the box complete.

I then added my pattern paper to the lid portion. Make sure the curved side of the thin strips faces the outside edge. I also added score tape to the corner flaps.

Hopefully you will be able to gift some home made goods with this cute box. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

 

Chelsea

 

Mason Jar Pop Up Box Card

Happy Spring almost Summer Everyone!  I have a quick little card tutorial to share with you today using Lori’s new Echo Park Collection Firefly.  I simply adore everything about this collection, the patterns, the amazing details, the colors….it is all swoon worthy, you have to get it.  It is just so perfect for summer.  The card is one of her pop up box cards, that fold flat for mailing and then pop up and give a fabulous 3 d effect for your recipient.  You can find this card here in Lori’s Shop or here in The Silhouette Online Design Store.  I just love mason jars and this is just so cute.

First, cut and organize all your pieces.
I always ink all my edges, except the white.
Put your card base together, here I used papers from the 6×6 Firefly paper pad and card stock.  Your score lines will be a peak and a valley.
As you can see here, it fold to a 5×5 card base.
Next, make this piece.  Here I added some beautiful washi tape from the Firefly collection.  Love it!  Again you will have a peak and a valley for score lines.
You are only going to add adhesive on the two ends, and you can see where I wrote here and here.  Make sure no adhesive goes in the middle, otherwise your card won’t pop up.  My adhesive fits the first little panel and then from the second score line to the right.
Once you add this piece, you can see how the little pop up box is formed to add your remaining dimensional pieces.
Now just finish up the layers for these two pieces and add adhesive to the sides.  Add them in order, as Lori numbers them for you…1 & 2.
Press them firmly to the sides to create the pop up effect!
And there you have it!  The cutest little card popping with joy!  I love using all the fun embellishments form her collections to really create my own take on each of her cards.

 

Thank you for joining us today!
Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberry Lemonade Shaker Card Cricut Tutorial

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks for checking in today. I am going to show you how to turn this already cute card (SVG, Silhouette) into a shaker card!

I want to remind everyone that I am a Cricut user and these instructions are specifically for Cricut Design Space but the idea is the same regardless of what platform you are using.

Once your SVG is uploaded, you must click on “Ungroup”. Once I clicked on ungroup, I had to select the whole image and click ungroup again. This will allow you to move the pink lemonade portion of the file.

Once I had singled out the pink lemonade, I copied it to have 4 lemonade sections.

One of these will be needed to cut the clear acetate sheet (noted by the light grey color), and one will be needed as the back lemonade portion of your card (noted by leaving it solid pink). The remaining 2 will create the frame for your shaker.

 

For the image in purple, I shrunk from the original 3.275 x 3.291 to 2.8 x 2.81 and layered it over one of the additional pink pieces. The pink will show you the size of your frame.

Once you have overlapped the pieces above (the purple and pink pieces) select both and click on “Slice”. Once you have sliced these two images together, you will need to delete some pieces.

 

You will be left with this

I also removed the sentiment, 1 because we aren’t anywhere near summer here in South Dakota and 2 because it covers the cute shaker portion. Once your screen looks like the above photo, click on “Make” and cut your pieces.

 

Once you have your pieces cut, assemble your card as you would any other shaker card.

Adhere the acetate to the pink frame and add your solid adhesive foam strips over the back of the frame (where you glued the acetate). I use ones like this:

Once the base of your card is put together, add your shaker bits (I used little lemon slices and some pink pearls) over the pink base and line up your frame on top of the shaker bits, and stick it down.

 
You should end up with an adorable little card like this! P.S. I used paper from Lori’s Echo Park line called Year In Review.
Happy Crafting!
Chelsea