I recently saw a sweet French apothecary jar on etsy, and since I didn’t want to pay the $22 price tag, I decided to make one of my own! It now resides in our pink (guest) bathroom.
You can make one too — it’s really easy! You just need a small jar (mine is from Goodwill and I’m sure I paid under $1 for it), some brown ink, some rubber cement or modge podge, and a graphic you like. The Graphics Fairy has tons of lovely vintage graphics. The label I used can be found here.
1. Clean and dry your jar thoroughly. Measure the size you want your graphic to be so it will fit on the front of your jar.
2. Select a graphic to use, and, using a word processing program, resize it and print it out.
3. Rub the edges of the label with some brown ink to give it a little more depth.
4. Using either rubber cement or modge podge, adhere the label to your jar. Let dry.
Enjoy!
Cute idea!!! I need to go to goodwill to see if I can score some jars like this! 🙂
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing the link where you got the illustration.
I collected some labels and put them in the same file to download. I used the labels for my vintage bottles! http://fun.kyti.me/index.php/2011/02/vintage-bottles/
I love this idea. Now I just need to find some extra time to do it.
Love it! Just adorable! That vintage label makes this an instant vintage treasure.
visiting from the Graphics Fairy. TFS!
Aw, this is a really nice post. Taking time and actual effort to make an excellent article is very rare today.