Sunflower Altered Treat Jar

Hi, Friends....

I am here with a pretty sunflower altered treat jar that I made for our niece's birthday this week.  I filled it with caramels and included some "green stuff" so she could go shopping, too.  :)

For this project I used images from my Denami Design - Summer Flowers and Denami Design - Summer Flower Leaves stamp sets.  I don't get these sets out very often, so it was fun to use them.

I covered the jar with recycled gift wrap tissue and Mod Podge.  After it was dry, I rubbed on some Gelatos in yellow, orange, green, and metallic gold and blended them with a moistened fingertip.

I stamped a bunch of sunflower images with Versafine ink in Onyx Black on some scraps of gift wrap tissue (that I had used to catch overspray on other projects) and Mod Podged them here and there on the jar and on the previously gessoed lid.  I colored the flowers with my waterbrush and watercolor pencils.

Next I wrapped some sunflower patterned burlap ribbon around the jar and put on my focal panel.  The focal panel is also from scraps that I stamped and colored the same way as the flowers on the tissue.  I die cut them with my My Favorite Things Die-namics - Stitched Oval STAX die set.  I finished it all up with a fluffy brown tulle bow. 

You can't see it in my photos, but I also added shimmer to each of the flowers on the jar and focal panel by coloring over them with my Wink of Stella pen.  Sorry I didn't get the angle of the light right for you to be able to see it.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my altered treat jar.  I love being able to reuse gift wrap tissue this way and to upcycle my empty jars!  Thank you for stopping by and, as always, leaving your wonderful comments!!!

<3
Janis



Thank you for the honor of entering this altered treat jar in the following challenges:
1. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Fabulous Florals
2. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Try to Contain Yourself
3. DL.Art August Linky Challenge - AG
4. Crafty Ribbons Challenge #163 - AG
5. SRTC August Challenge - Anything Goes
6. Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Use Your Leftovers and Scraps
7. Penny Black at All Sorts August Challenge - AG
8. Pixie's Snippets Playground Week #241 - Use Snippets
9. Creative Corner Challenges - Anything But a Card 
10. Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #146 - Anything But a Card with Ribbon or Trim