Published on October 4, 2006
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Locamama
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I made a jar fairy and she's so pretty. I wish I had a digital camera so I could show her off to everybody. That does it. November first I am going to get a cheap digital camera. No more holding out for the fancy pants one I want. I will get whatever I can afford and upgrade at some point. Then you could see how great she turned out.
I tried making a boy fairy yesterday using a canning jar but it was too small. He fit but you can't see the top of his head very well because it's where the jar starts to curve plus it bent his wings. So that was try number one. It was my experimental fairy. Today went better.
I used an old Prego jar. I cut a little girl standing with a bow in her hair out of my ephemera book. I used a glue stick to put her on cardboard and cut her out. Then I outlined her using a gold paint pen. I ran her through my xyron and put on some ultra fine glitter. The finishing touch was to emboss a gold butterfly on vellum which I cut out and glued behind her to make her a fairy. You have to have wings to be a fairy. I put glued some sheet moss to the bottom and made a small cardboard stand so she would stay upright. It's hidden by the moss.
I also used some light blue harlequin and script scrapbook paper and added that to some cardstock and placed that in for a background and so you can't see how she was put together in the back. The downside of the prego jar is that it has Prego embossed in the glass around the mouth of the jar. That just won't cut it so I found a piece of burlap type material and cut a square to cover the lid. I was having a hard time tying the twine around the fabric so in a moment of inspiration I put one of my ponytail holders over the fabric and the lid until I got the string on. Worked like a charm. I also wrote "captured fairy" on a tag and distressed it by crumpling it and then rubbing some walnut ink on it. And now she is complete.
I love her. Now I need more jars. I will have to call all my friends to save their spaghetti, applesauce jars, etc. I think I am going to donate her for the silent auction at my boys school carnival.