#Colored mason jars mod

Take the jar directly to the oven for the best color retention.ДЇive, when you place the jars on the cookie sheet, line the cookie sheet with aluminum foil before placing a sheet of waxed paper or parchment paper on top. (Remember that you donвЂ™t want to be washing excess glue mixture down your plumbing.)ДЇour, skip the drain time suggested in the original tutorial. I find it easiest to use a paper bowl that can be put in the trash afterward. Mix the water/dye and the glue in a separate bowl and add all together to the jar. It ends up leaving gummy unincorporated glue on the bottom of the jar that takes a long time to bake out.

ItвЂ™s difficult to properly mix the water/dye solution with the glue in the bottom of the jar. Three, DONвЂ™T ADD THE GLUE DIRECTLY TO THE JARS. When you mix the water and food coloring, then add the glue and mix, you can add more food coloring to the mixture until youвЂ™re satisfied. I used even more when I did a pint-sized blue jar. I used that much or more on a pint jar quantity of the mixture when I made a purple jarвЂ“I wanted a deeper color. My second attempt made a green jar similar to the color of the vintage green jar. Two, go heavy on the food coloring! I tried three drops the first time, 9 drops the second time (on a quart jar). (You can do multiple jars at onceвЂ“just multiply the quantities.) Two teaspoons water and four teaspoons glue will do a quart jar. One teaspoon water and two teaspoons glue will do a pint jar. Not to mention, a 1:2 ratio in tablespoons is far too much for a pint jar. (вЂњA tablespoon or so,вЂќ for example.) Forget the вЂњor soвЂќ or your mixture will be too thin. The quantities in the original tutorial are a little fuzzy. One, however many jars you want to do, go with a 1:2 ratio on the water to the glue.

The idea itself is a great one, but after a number of trials, I want to share with you what went wrong and what worked for meвЂ“so this is both a review of the process and my own tutorial take-off on the method. Can I recreate that look using nothing more than a mixture of glue, water, and food coloring? I had to find out! I followed the tutorial linked above and had some trouble. ItвЂ™s the real deal, a vintage MasonвЂ™s Patent Nov. Why they stopped doing that, I donвЂ™t know, but they are the most beautiful jars if you can find them. Canning jars used to come in all kinds of pretty colors such as blue, green, and amber.

#Colored mason jars mod

I was intrigued when I came across this tutorial for tinting Mason jars in rainbow colors using a mixture of water, food coloring, and Mod Podge. I love vintage green and blue Mason jars, but I donвЂ™t have very many of them and they can be hard to find.