Altered Treat Jar with Hearts

Hi, Friends.....

I am here with a fun altered treat jar I decorated with tissue paper hearts for the Winnie & Walter Belated 2nd BD Bash - Anything but a Card Challenge. I like to save my empty glass jars and bottles to decorate as treat jars for gifts. For this one, I started with some salvaged dark pink tissue gift wrap. I stamped it with my Winnie & Walter - Scenery: Big Bang Confetti stamp set in gold and silver pigment ink.

Next I folded it into several layers and die cut it with the solid heart die from my Serendipity - Heart Scroll stamp and die set.

I had previously gessoed up the lid, so it was time to put a heart on it. I used a matte decoupage medium.

I had already glued a "paint clean up" paper towel onto the jar, so it was ready for hearts, too. I outlined them with Elmer's Painters Markers in silver.

After the hearts and all the decoupage medium were dry, I spread some Faber-Castell Glass Bead Glitter Gel here and there for some sparkle in between the hearts. After the glitter gel was completely dry, I rubbed on some Gelatos in Metallic Grape and Bubble Gum. I blended it with my fingers and misted with water to let it blend and run together. I put some on the lid, too, for some pretty color. I also sprayed it here and there with my Hero Arts Neon Ink Spray in pink.



I got tired of waiting for the neon ink spray to dry where it had pooled, so I got out my Perfect Pearls and dusted on some of the powder in Interference Red to absorb the rest of the tackiness and to give some extra shimmer.








Here's the front of the jar:

I finished up the jar with a shimmery ribbon and a tag I cut from a free printable from the Winnie & Walter shop. It's from their Daily Grind Collection Vol. 1 - Holiday Mint. I used my Paper Smooches - Gift Tags Dies to cut the tag.

That's all for now. Tomorrow (Saturday) is my birthday and we are going to be gone so I want to get this posted tonight. :) Don't forget to be watching for my Belated 2nd Blogoversary/Birthday Giveaway in early March! Yay! Have a wonderful weekend.

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this project in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Belated 2nd BD Bash - Two Challenge with Shay (I used 2 colors of ink and 2 colors of pink paper)
2. Winnie & Walter Belated 2nd BD Bash - Anything but a Card Challenge
3. Serendipity Stamps Challenge #52 - Anything Goes
4. Southern Ridge Trading Company February Challenge - Anything Love
5. Little Claire's Designs Challenge #66 - Love and Marriage
6. Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes with Mixed Media
7. Design Memory Craft Take the Challenge with Mou February - Hearts
8. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes