Supplies
Tools
- 2 cookies cutters (one heart-shaped & one flower-shaped)
- plastic modeling spatula or knife
- wooden rolling pin (plastic is too light)
- lace or honey comb weaved cloth (to make a textured effect)
Materials
- 1 glass preserves jar
- 250g of cold porcelain
- wax paper
Directions
Decorate the base of the jam jar
- Mix the cold porcelain paste together.
NB: try to make a mixture that isn't very sticky, and work quickly because the porcelain dries fast!
- Roll the mixture between two sheets of wax paper to prevent the mixture from sticking.
- Try to make a circle not too think, but not too thick.
- Place the cicle on the textured fabric and press to make a textured effect.
- Cover the entire jar with the cold porcelain mixture.
- NB: If you didn't make enough of the mixture, make a new batch quickly, flatten it quickly and re-cover the remaining portion. Smooth the seams with the palm of your hand.
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- Remove the excess starting from the bottom of the jar and working your way up. Stop just before the portion of the lip where the lid screws onto the jar.
- Cutting out the shapes
- with the cookie cutters (if you still have some visible seams from covering the jar, cut out the shapes over the remaining seams)
- if you don't have a cookie cutter, use the plastic spatula and carve out a window for the jar.
- Paint the jar (optional).
- Add decorations made out of the left-over mixture:
- leaves
- shutters
- a little sign
Make the lid of the jam jar
- Make a new circle of the cold porcelain mixture with a diameter larger that the metal lid of the jar.
- Close the jar with the lid and attach the mixture by pressing well on the edges of the lid to make sure it sticks.
- Paint the lid.
- Make a figurine for the lid and attach it with craft glue.
- Add more touches; i.e: a little package with a glue gun.
