Painted Mason Valentine Jar Lantern with Heart Cut-Outs

A simple reuse craft that looks gives you an instant holiday vibe – DIY Painted Mason Valentine Jar Lantern with Heart Cut-Outs.

There is only one happiness in life; to love and be loved. – George Sand

Does anyone else end up with a ton of mason jars?  Besides using them for drinking glasses you can make so many different types of crafts as we did here:  Cricut Valentine Mason Gift Jar, Holiday Mason Jar Drinking Cup -DIY, and Mason Jar Easter Tree.

This valentine lantern is a perfect addition to your holiday decor…even if it’s the only valentine’s day thing you have it will give you a holiday feel.  #keepinitsimple

SALVAGE TIP – If you don’t have a Cricut, you can use regular stickers.  Just make sure they will peel off your jar before using on the project.

VALENTINE LANTERN SUPPLIES

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• Design Space Heart Silhouettes Template #MBFF673F
• Cricut Maker with Fine Point Blade
• Standard grip mat
• Cricut Premium Vinyl Removable, in any color, as it will be discarded, use what you have on hand 
• Cricut Transfer Tape
• 16oz Mason Jars with lid
• Scissors
• Weeding Tool (toolset)
• DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish Chalk Paint in Reminisce
• Paintbrush
• Twine
• Votive candle, the battery-operated ones are great if you have littles around or just want to be safe!

PREP JAR

1. Thoroughly wash jars with soap and hot water and let them dry completely before using.

CRICUT INSTRUCTIONS

1. On a blank Design Space canvas, select images and type #MBFF673E to insert the heart Silhouette images on to your canvas.
2. Resize the heart silhouettes to 2.25″ wide.
3. Duplicate the heart images two times to have a total of three.
4. Select “Make It” in Design Space.
5. Set material type to Premium Vinyl.
6. Follow prompts for loading mat into Maker and cutting the premium vinyl. When cut is complete, unload mat from the Maker.
7. Remove the premium vinyl from the mat.

APPLICATION

1. Cut around each heart silhouette image with a pair of scissors. Using the weeding tool, peel away the excess vinyl around the vinyl-cut images and discard.
2. Cut a piece of transfer tape a bit larger than the size of the silhouette heart image.
3. Peel away the transfer tape backing and place the transfer tape over the top of the vinyl image. Gently rub the vinyl to help it stick to the transfer tape.
4. Peel away the Premium Vinyl backing, leaving the hearts adhered to the transfer tape.
5. Working on one side at a time, position the hearts and transfer tape on to the smooth side of a mason jar and press in place just below the middle of the jar.
6. Press the vinyl hearts down with your fingers or with the Cricut scraping tool to help it to stick to the glass jar.
7. Slowly and carefully remove the transfer tape leaving the vinyl heart design on the jar.
8. Similarly, position the other vinyl hearts on two other flat sides of the mason jar and repeat the above steps for removing the transfer tape. We opted to apply three heart designs in total, leaving the textured side of the jar untouched

PAINT JARS

1. Using a medium-sized paintbrush, apply Americana Chalky Finish in Reminisce over the surface of the jar including the vinyl hearts. Allow it to fully dry before applying the second coat of paint.
2. Once dry, use the weeding tool to pick away and peel off the vinyl heart shapes and discard.
3. To finish, tie a piece of twine (or scrap ribbon) around the neck of the mason jar.
4. Fill the jar with a votive candle.

Now you are ready for Valentine’s Day! Again, feel free to try this with stickers if you don’t own a Cricut.

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Painted Mason Valentine Jar Lantern with Heart Cut-Outs

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A simple reuse craft that looks gives you an instant holiday vibe - DIY Painted Mason Valentine Jar Lantern with Heart Cut-Outs.

Materials

• Design Space Heart Silhouettes Template #MBFF673F
• Standard grip mat
• Cricut Premium Vinyl Removable, in any color, as it will be discarded, use what you have on hand 
• Cricut Transfer Tape
• 16oz Mason Jars with lid
• DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish Chalk Paint in Reminisce
• Twine
• Votive candle

Tools

• Cricut Maker with Fine Point Blade
• Scissors
• Paintbrush
• Weeding Tool

Instructions

PREP JAR

Thoroughly wash jars with soap and hot water and let them dry completely before using.

CRICUT INSTRUCTIONS

1. On a blank Design Space canvas, select images and type #MBFF673E to insert the heart Silhouette images on to your canvas.
2. Resize the heart silhouettes to 2.25" wide.
3. Duplicate the heart images two times to have a total of three.
4. Select “Make It” in Design Space.
5. Set material type to Premium Vinyl.
6. Follow prompts for loading mat into Maker and cutting the premium vinyl. When cut is complete, unload mat from the Maker.
7. Remove the premium vinyl from the mat.
   

APPLICATION

1. Cut around each heart silhouette image with a pair of scissors. Using the weeding tool, peel away the excess vinyl around the vinyl-cut images and discard.
2. Cut a piece of transfer tape a bit larger than the size of the silhouette heart image.
3. Peel away the transfer tape backing and place the transfer tape over the top of the vinyl image. Gently rub the vinyl to help it stick to the transfer tape.
4. Peel away the Premium Vinyl backing, leaving the hearts adhered to the transfer tape.
5. Working on one side at a time, position the hearts and transfer tape on to the smooth side of a mason jar and press in place just below the middle of the jar.
6. Press the vinyl hearts down with your fingers or with the Cricut scraping tool to help it to stick to the glass jar.
7. Slowly and carefully remove the transfer tape leaving the vinyl heart design on the jar.
8. Similarly, position the other vinyl hearts on two other flat sides of the mason jar and repeat the above steps for removing the transfer tape. We opted to apply three heart designs in total, leaving the textured side of the jar untouched

PAINT JARS

1. Using a medium-sized paintbrush, apply Americana Chalky Finish in Reminisce over the surface of the jar including the vinyl hearts. Allow it to fully dry before applying the second coat of paint.
2. Once dry, use the weeding tool to pick away and peel off the vinyl heart shapes and discard.
3. To finish, tie a piece of twine (or scrap ribbon) around the neck of the mason jar.
4. Fill the jar with a votive candle.

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