Weekend Project: Wintertime Scene Stonemason Jars

We invited Leanna Maksymiuk to demo us how how she made that adorable wintertime scene stonemason jounce nosotros all noticed inwards our post on Spruce's Holiday Display recently. She kindly accepted together with thence nosotros see it would live a fun weekend projection idea.  They don't convey likewise long to make, together with thence fun! I desire to brand a stack of them (like above)!  Also see Leanna's Etsy store Spruce along amongst her DIYs together with Etsy shop! Thanks Leanna. Jan

Guest post past times Leanna Maksymiuk

I lead hold wanted to practise a tutorial for thence long! at final I lead hold works life a elementary yet effective Christmas arts and crafts that I desire to share. It is super elementary together with if you lot desire to brand a few they are reasonably cheap!

Step 1: My bristle brush trees had a ugly white plastic base of operations that I didn't desire on elevation of my car. So I pulled it off together with rolled upwards a niggling slice of chocolate-brown felt to brand the tree body together with secured it amongst hot glue.

Step 2: Hot gum your tree to the roof of your car. Using bakers twine or string necktie the tree to the car. I wrapped the string only about the wheels together with and thence secured the string to the bottom of the motorcar amongst hot glue.

Step 3: Set upwards a niggling scene together with play amongst your niggling motorcar for agency likewise long!

Step 4: Place your motorcar inwards the jounce together with add together snowfall until it looks similar only enough. Cut out a pretty slice of newspaper to comprehend the lid together with screw the band on.

Step 5: Place on the mantle, or on a bookshelf together with enjoy! I seriously LOVE these wintertime jars! I went crazy together with made a ton of them, you lot tin run into from the pictures that I did a bunch of dissimilar things, but basically I used the steps above. These are thence elementary to make, it literally takes v minutes. Here's a few favorites:

I read that you lot tin bleach these niggling trees thence I tried together with aye you lot can! It looks a niggling muddy white, but amongst a niggling dye tin you lot imagine!? the niggling polar acquit was from the pocket-sized toy department inwards Michaels. I used an empty jounce amongst H2O together with a tablespoon or ii of bleach to plow them white. I kept my optic on the trees together with swirled them only about inwards the water/bleach mixture until I liked the color.

I dear the cars together with hunted through bags of cars at the thrift store looking for cars my friends together with menage unit of measurement lead hold to give every bit gifts.

The tractor is my favourite i of all. This i is for me! I volition live keeping my eyes opened upwards all twelvemonth long for knick knacks to set inwards wintertime scenes for side past times side year. I volition live keeping my eyes opened upwards for niggling gnomes, foxes, wolves, together with tractors! I volition also live looking for Mason type jars through the twelvemonth too, I much prefer them to up-cycled jam together with pickle jars.

This projection came from a mish-mash of ideas that I was wanting to do. I originally had seen snowfall public jars on Pinterest for putting gift cards in. I wanted to brand those for the gift cards I am giving at Christmas but was nervous almost putting expensive gift cards inwards water. Then I see I would only brand snowfall globes, but I heard that the dark-green bristle trees I wanted to purpose lose their color inwards H2O thence that wouldn't run either. (They practise past times the way, I tried earlier bleaching out the white one.) Still wanting to brand a snowfall public type affair I made these!

I am daydreaming almost side past times side wintertime already!

I actually don't similar it when bloggers won't tell you lot where they works life their supplies. So hither you lot go!

Mason Jars: Local thrift store (not Value Village) .30 cents each amongst lids.
Buffalo Snow: Michaels $2.99 amongst a 50% off coupon! i handbag did all xi jars, addition I all the same lead hold some left.
Deer, Mushrooms .60 each, .20 each respectively, from Scoop together with Save which is a cake decorating store.
Bristle Trees- Michaels has packs of 22 trees together with amongst 50% off coupon I paid $16.
Paper- I had inwards my stash
Toy cars- local thrift store .25 cents

Depending on what you lot set inwards your jars, you lot tin practise this for nether $4 a jar! Fantastic I say!

Guest post past times Leanna Maksymiuk
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