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April 14, 2011Spray Painted Mason Jars: By Just Another Day in Paradise
Howdy my fellow CSI Project readers. My name is Larissa and I can be found in my little blogging heaven
I heart doing all things creative. On any given day you will find me sewing a little, crafting a little, decorating a little, cooking a little, and momma-ing a lot. One of my favorite things to use in any project is spray paint and Krylon is DEFINITELY my go to paint. Spray paint makes everything better.
Today I am sharing a super easy and super lovely spray paint project just right for your Easter table.
Easter Mason Jar Planters
All you need:
mason jars, any shape and size
several of your favorite springy colors of Krylon spray paint
small bag of potting soil
some pretty flowers…make sure they grow in small groups
I chose alyssum, perfectly light and fresh
Getting started:
With your jars flipped with the mouth down, spray paint each jar the color you want. The first coat should be a very light coating, not covering all the way. After the first coat sets for just 10 minutes, you can follow up with a second coat. Repeat until you have the coverage you want.
After they have dried 24 hours, we can transfer over our spring plants. Make a paper funnel and place it in the mouth of your jar. Slowly scoop in potting soil.
Fill just over two thirds full, leaving plenty of room for your plant.
Separate your flowers into natural smaller groups.
Transplant your flowers into the jar. Add in any extra soil around the plant that is needed to fill the jar.
Repeat with all the jars. They are super lovely just as is, but for Easter they need more, don’t ya think?
I found some bunny silhouette’s that I cut out from white vinyl. Then I applied my little bunnies to one side of the jar.
Perfect.
Repeat with all the jars, some of the jars, all the same bunnies, different bunnies. You call the shots. I used different shapes and I left one jar plain.
Line them up on your table for a simply lovely Easter decoration.
— Larissa Just Another Day in Paradise
37 Comments
it looks really good! i will give it a try i have a lot of jars to use like this
Great idea! I’m going to use this to paint jars for herbs.
Spray paint & fabric = redo card table & chairs – love this!
Did you paint the inside or the outside of the jars?
I’ve put together a round up of bunny silhouette tutorials on Craft Gossip today and included your post. 🙂 You can see it here
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Thanks for sharing!
Where do you find your mason jars?
This is super cute!! I can’t wait to make my own! Thanks for the great idea :o).
Another idea would be to fill jars with water and add spring cut flowers, like tulips or daffodils instead of planing flowers. They look cute on a Easter dinner table!
These are so adorable! And they look so great all together. What a beautiful craft 🙂
Hello – very cute – I featured it on my blog here: http://thebrowyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/03/i-was-featued-on.html
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Happy Easter!
Kendel
These are so gorgeous!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Larissa- did you paint the inside of the jars or outside? Sweet idea, with the bunnies!
Great Idea! Make sure to put something like broken terra cotta pot pieces to soak up the water since there are no holes in the bottom otherwise your plant will drowned.
Great Idea! Make sure to put something at the bottom like brokwn up terra cotta plants to soak up the water otherwise your plants will die.
How do you maintain drainage?
loved this idea, now I know what to do with this large stash of pickle jars