Diy burlap coffee jar

Hello and happy Monday everyone :)


I hope you all had a great weekend. Although mine went way too fast (as usual) it was nice to have plans and also have some decent down time. In addition to running Saturday morning, I went to a friends 31 and pampered chef party. When I got home, hubby wanted to do pizza hut for dinner. This isn't something we do too often so it tasted soooo good. Sunday was some household chores and relaxation time. We rented two redbox movies, the Alex Cross movie (I have no idea what its really called) and FLIGHT with Denzel Washington. Both good in different ways.


Anyway, are you all ready to see my Sunday afternoon craft project and how-to??

Isn't it so cute?? It was so super easy to make and although my poor cricut wouldn't turn on to play like I planned (gasp, I hope it isn't dead!!) it all worked out ok in the end.

So I started out with an old spaghetti sauce jar cleaned up, washed out and label taken off and some leftover burlap.

I cut my burlap to fit the majority of the flat portion of the jar. Once I was satisfied with it, I hopped on the computer and printed my word "Coffee" in a fun font.

I cut out the word so that I could tape it to the "wrong" side of my burlap and make sure it would land right where I wanted it to be.

After I got it situated I pulled out a painters pen, also from another project. I figured this would be much easier and neater than trying to mess with fabric paint. Because burlap has so many spaces, it is so easy to see right through and trace the letters (or any other pattern you wish).

See how easy it is to see through?

then you just trace



trace



and trace some more. Here, I decided to use the threading in the burlap to create a little dotted border around COFFEE.



Just. like. so.



I attached it on with good old hot glue and sat back to look at it. Too plain? Yep. Needs some color. I didn't have any ribbon handy that was the perfect fit so I hit up the fabric scraps.



I had this fabric from one of my fabric flower shenanigans and it worked so darn perfectly! (if I do say so...) I sprayed the lid black because, well, it just looked nicer than gold (soooo not a gold fan over here).





in it's new little home... brew is on!



... and there you have it. Happy day!