Beautiful jars for the kitchen

How often do we housewives spend time in the kitchen? Probably most of the daylight hours. And it’s not dawn that they say that the kitchen is the face of the housewife. Of course, I want this “face” to be as beautiful as possible. Therefore, I want to share with you my experience in creating beauty on kitchen shelves.
I, probably like each of you, have a lot of jars in my kitchen: for spices and cereals, pasta and flour, etc. And that’s okay, but they are too different in size and color, I, as a creative person, categorically did not like it. And I decided to change everyday, practical things into elegant jewelry that pleases my own eyes and brings my guests to complete delight. There is nothing complicated or costly about decorating jars; whatever is at hand will be used. And the way I did it!

Materials:
- Jar,
- PVA glue,
- mother-of-pearl paints (borrowed from my daughter’s doll makeup kit),
- egg shells,
- gouache,
- acrylic lacquer,
- burlap,
- lace.

First, you need to thoroughly wash and dry the jar. Then go over with sandpaper and degrease with alcohol.

go over with sandpaper


We select a picture: you can print it on a printer, or cut it out of a decorative napkin; I had a page from a book. Next we proceed to gluing the picture using the “decoupage" If you have not heard this word, which is incomprehensible at first glance, do not be alarmed, because this technique can be used even by small children. First you need to cover the surface (the size of a picture) with soil. In any master class you will see that you need to use acrylic paints, but we are creating a budget option, so I used gouache. After painting, let it dry. And then it’s even simpler - we apply our drawing and thoroughly, from the heart, coat it with glue on top.

attach our drawing


Here's what happened:

set to dry


We put our jar to dry, and in the meantime we prepare the eggshells (dried). We paint it black and also send it to dry.

Paint it black


While we were painting the eggs, our jar had time to dry and we took it up again. We paint our entire jar with pearlescent paints (except for the drawing) and let it dry.

We paint with pearlescent paints


Cover the surface with PVA glue and glue broken eggshells.

glue a broken line


This is the semi-finished product we get:

glue broken eggshells


Next, pour PVA glue, add pearlescent and brown paints to it, mix well.

pour PVA glue


And using a kitchen sponge, apply it to the entire surface of the jar (including the design).

apply to the entire surface of the jar


We remove excess paint with a dry sponge, and use a brush with yellow paint to go over the drawing with chaotic strokes.

remove excess paint


After the painting has dried, use “zero” sandpaper to “age” the painting. Next we decorate the lid with burlap and lace. We put it on a shelf, admire it and show it off to our guests.

Beautiful jars for the kitchen


Also, as an option, I made jars like this:

Beautiful jars for the kitchen


Imagine, create and surprise yourself and others. Good luck!
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Comments (1)
  1. Aino
    #1 Aino Guests 21 August 2017 15:55
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    Looks very cool! And it's really very simple to do. Although I personally don’t like mother-of-pearl very much, everything else is just wonderful.