May Arts Time!

In case you didn't already know, Stampendous is doing a blog collaboration with May Arts Ribbon this week and I always enjoy it when we collaborate with them, May Arts is my favorite ribbon in the whole wide world!!  That's no exaggeration!  I love their ribbon and twine!  They have the best variety and if there's ribbon or twine on one of my projects, 99% of the time, it's May Arts.  Today I have a fun project that was so easy to do!  I've been working on organizing my craft room and it seems I'm always in need of a box or jar to put something in.  I love to use clear jars because you can easily see the contents and they're just pretty to look at!  I decided to decorate one of my jars that I think I'm going to use for paint brushes on my mixed media table.  I haven't decided for sure if that's where I'm going to use it or not.  Actually, I think it's pretty enough that I could just as easily put a candle in it and stick it in my living room!  Anyway, here's my jar, you can tell me what you think:

I really like the shabby vintage look of this project.  While I do have the ring on the top of the jar, I have intentionally left the insert off.  I like the look of the jar ring.  I considered painting it or covering it in some fashion and decided against it.  On the jar itself all I did was layer a wide 2 1/2" May Arts ribbon on the bottom, a 1 1/2" burlap May Arts ribbon over the sheer and a piece of May Arts twine around the middle.  I used another May Arts ribbon to create my ribbon flower on a Gluber from Cosmo Cricket.  If you've never seen Glubers, they're like giant glue dots you use to create flowers; they're pretty darn cool!  I used my ribbon flower to cover the area where the ribbons connect.  Next I created my tag! I kept it pretty simple using Stampendous SSC1194 Vintage Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamps that I stamped with Coffee Archival Ink on a small shipping tag.  I used Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw, Tattered Rose and Dried Marigold Tim Holtz Distress Markers to color her in.  I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad and a stipple brush to add some ink around the edges.  Next I added a touch of Zip Dry Adhesive around the edge of the tag and dipped each side in Stampendous Cinnamon Micro Glitter.  Once my glitter was dry, I tied the tag onto the twine around the jar.  Really simple but simply pretty!  My teammate Janelle is also playing along today, here's her link, check her out!

Janelle

That's it for today.  I hope you'll come back tomorrow for a look at my Blog Hop project.  I'm kinda crazy about it, too!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon! 

Hugs,

Lea