Crafty Secret's Design Team Challenge and Tutorial!

Good morning my fellow crafty people! 

Today is Crafty Secret's design team challenge and linky party! AND I have a tutorial to boot!

I had purchased cute little Jelly Belly boxes for Valentine's Day.

So I thought it might be cute to alter them.

Because that's what I do. Take cute things and make them cuter.

;)

I love, love, love shaker cards and made mini ones with the little jars. I filled 'em up with sequins and clear Microbeads. 

Here are the boxes I purchased in the Valentine aisle at Target.

I apologize in advance for the poor photos.  That's what happens when you take the photos at night. :)

I covered each box with musical paper from the Crafty Secret's Valentine kit. 

I printed the jars from the Button up digital set. I made them pretty small, 2 inches.

I took my X-acto knife and cut the inside out.

I am a bit X-acto knife challenged, so as soon as I had the opportunity to use my scissors, I took it!

I wanted the jar to be silver, so I used my Silver Sharpie marker to trace the outside of the jar.

I added a piece of acetate to the back of the jar, glued it, and added my magnets to hold it down until it was dry.

  I printed the flowers at a 1/2 inch so they would fit nicely on the jar.

I gave it a bit of color using watercolors.  I wasn't super neat because I knew I would be cutting the image out, and adding glitter to it.

I wanted to add a little heart to the center and used a punch and glitter. 

The most challenging part was to add the foam tape skinny enough to fit on the jar. 

Once the foam was in place I filled it with sequins and microbeads.

Then I added string, the flower and heart to finish off the jar.

Here is one more look at the final product. :)

Be sure to check out the other DT gal's projects!  

Kathy Clement Team Leader

Michele Kovack - 300+ Gallery!

Sheila Rumney

Darlene Pavlick

Elizabeth Lincoln

Gloria Stengel

Diane Hover

Melody Clement

Shantaie Caudill-Fowler

Ginny Nemchak

Vicki Chrisman

Chicago got about 14 inches of snow yesterday, so today the kids and I are off!  

I am thinking a pajama day is in order!

:)