Alternative canning

I used to can. Applesauce mostly. I used to pretend that I loved it. But really, it's a pain in the neck. All the sterilization. Crazy hot kitchen. Lots of washing, scrubbing, boiling, bubbling, hissing. Hot sweaty mess. Maybe that's why I love the Perfectly Preserved stamp set so much! Canning without the hassle. Of course, there's no applesauce when I'm done, but there sure is an adorable card!

Again, I used vellum for the mason jar. To me, it's the perfect vehicle for making the mason jars look a bit more real.

Of course, I had to try a mason jar without the vellum, and it's cute too. This time I concentrated on the pears. After you cook them during the canning process, they are lighter in color than when they started, so I made my canned pears with markers, and stamped the raw pears with classic ink pads. I'm pretty tricky!

I love using hemp twine, or linen thread on the jar covers. Again, it just adds that little bit of detail that makes cards so interesting!

Happy stamping!

Mason jar love

You'll be seeing a lot of mason jars for awhile here. That's because I borrowed Perfectly Preserved and Cannery Framelits from a friend. I am in love with this coordinating set! It's perfect for this time of year.

I love using vellum for the mason jars! On this jar, I sponged some Marina Mist on the Crumb Cake card stock underneath the jar hoping it would look like water. I also used vellum for the flowers, with white embossing powder. I love how they turned out!

I sandwiched some Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon between the layers of card stock for some contrast of color.

These cute little flowers were just begging to be gathered up and put into a bouquet! So that's just what I did, gluing them onto Old Olive stems. The background paper was ripped from an old gardening book and I sponged Old Olive and Soft Suede onto it to age and soften it.

I sliced through the mason jar vellum so that the stems looked as if they were inside the jar. Clever, huh?

Happy stamping!