Delightful Not Frightful Night Light Silhouettes - By Jenn White

HI EVERYONE! I am Jenn White. It is a joy to be here on the 100 Moons Creative Collaboration BLOG again sharing an art project tutorial with all of you. Thank you for choosing to spend some of your time here with me today.

I love all of the cool, rainy, cloudy, foggy weather I have been enjoying here where I live in Missouri lately. It has successfully put me in a gothic Autumn mood.

We have so many family Birthdays in October. My Brother's Birthday is on October 31st so my family has always gone all out & over the top decorating & celebrating Halloween. 

I prefer creating my own custom Halloween decor & collectables using all the things I have saved to upcycle & reuse. I believe that never throwing anything away that can be reused is in my genetic code & DNA strands. 

Whenever I shop & buy groceries, I am also considering the packaging things are in & how I can reuse it. I am slightly obsessive about certain bottles, jars, cans, lids, containers, boxes, wrappings, papers & chipboard. I save & collect things most people would consider trash & not give another thought to as they toss these things into their recycle bins or garbage cans 

For instance, the frosted translucent glassine bakery bags the ArtFoamies arrive in in my order shipments. I cannot seem to part with them. The paper is so wonderful to cut apart & stamp on & wrap around a clear glass jar or bottle & add a battery operated tea light. Instant night light. Instant mood & atmosphere changer. Instant inexpensive gift for a loved one. My grandkids adore them & so do I. Speaking of grandkids I made these with my grandson's empty baby food jars I saved from when he was a baby. I had him here with me for his first four years. He is 7 now.  

I have made these in the past & I was inspired to make them again by a video I watched on Kristin Powers' Patreon channel awhile back when Sandra Evertson released her first set of Art Foamies designs. I watched Kae Pea do this by stamping Sandra's Tenango Obscura  ArtFoamie onto one of the glassine ArtFoamie bags, then she wrapped it around a dollar store prayer candle & my jaw dropped! Kae Pea created it SO fast, SO easily & inexpensively too! 

Let's get makey! Shall we? 

Let's gather our supplies.

☆Smooth, clear glass jars. I used the smaller first foods glass baby food jars. The battery operated tea lights fit perfectly inside them.You can use any smooth clear glass jar that has all of it's labels completely removed & a wide enough opening for your battery operated tea light.

☆Battery operated tea lights. I found packs of 2 color changing ones at the local dollar store.

☆Ruler to measure your jar, trims & the length & width of glassine paper you will need to wrap around your jar.

☆Scissors to cut the glassine bag into jar surface length & width strips & cut trims.

☆Liquid glue, gel medium, mod podge that dries clear. You decide if you want it matte or glossy or glittery.

☆A paint brush you do not care about getting wet adhesive on to paint the wet adhesive smoothly onto the jar and paint wet adhesive smoothly over the stamped & embossed image & seal it smoothly onto the jar. Or you can just use your finger like I did. 

☆A larger ArtFoamies translucent glassine bakery bag. ☆If you do not have one you can use translucent vellum, waxed paper or translucent bakery papers.  

☆An acrylic cling stamp block large enough for the stamp.

☆Silhouette Rubber Stamps by 100 Proof Press 6289 - Pumpkin Parade & 6454 - M - Trick Or Treat Silhouette Mounted. (You can also use the smaller halloween themed ArtFoamies silhouette stamps.)

 

☆Embellishment trims of your choice to decorate the jar neck & lip. I used black lace trims that I found in my stash.

☆Black ink that will hold embossing powder.

☆ Black fine or ultra fine embossing powder.

☆Heat tool for melting & setting the embossing powder.

☆A piece of copy paper or a coffee filter to catch the embossing powder overage.

Are you ready?

After you measure the smooth even flat area of the jar or clear container you want to use, you must determine if the stamps you want to use will fit on that surface area. Measure & cut your translucent glassine paper into strips as per your jar circumference measurements. I wrapped the glassine around my jar & marked where I needed to cut it with my fingernail. After you cut the translucent glassine to fit the flat even surface of the jar it is time to stamp & heat emboss the translucent glassine paper. Ink your stamp with embossable black ink & line it up in the lower right hand corner of the pre cut tranlucent glassine paper strip. Repeat this process until the translucent glassine paper strip is covered with your chosen silhouette stamp images. Next, hold your stamped strip of translucent glassine over a coffee filter or a piece of copy paper & sprinkle your jar of black fine detail embossing powder heavily over the stamped images. Let the excess powder fall onto the coffee filter or copy paper then curve fold it to pour the excess back into the embossing powder jar. Next, heat emboss the translucent glassine strip with your heat tool until the embossing powder melts & sets the stamped silhouette images opaque. Use the tip of your scissors to hold down the translucent glassine strip so it doesn't blow around & also so you do not get your fingers burned by the heat tool.

Now it is time to adhere the stamped & embossed translucent glassine strip to the jar. Before you wrap the stamped strip around the jar, apply a thin coat of your clear drying wet adhesive to it to seal the images & melted embossing powder.

Paint your jar with the wet liquid adhesive of your choice. I used Ultra Thick Gel medium on the end of my index finger. As long as it is a glue that dries clear you should be good. Apply your stamped & heat embossed glassine strip evenly onto the jar. I do not recommend overlapping the glassine strip ends because it does not look as pretty once the jar is illuminated by the tealight.

Be sure to seal the outside of the image by painting your clear drying wet adhesive over the entre outside of the jar. If you do not do this sealing your image will probably crack & flake & fall off the jar. Ask me how I know this. Haha. Everything is a learning experience.

Now is also the perfect time to add that trim piece to embellish the top of your jar since you just painted glue all over the entire surface of it.

You can switch your tea light to the on position now & place it inside your jar. Oooh! That is so pretty! Don't you think so? I love it!

Happy Halloween! 

Treat yourself to some Halloween & winter holiday presents & gifts at 

100proofpress.com 

rubbermoon.com 

& 

artfoamies.com

You deserve it! 

Art supplies are so fun & therapeutic! 

THANKS AGAIN FOR JOINING ME TODAY! HUGS! YOU ARE LOVED! 

- Jenn White

100 Proof Press, RubberMoon & ArtFoamies art stamps & art supplies make that creative desire to express our imaginations through our creations so QUICK, EASY & FUN! 

Art Stamps are my favorite creative tools as they can be used over and over again in endless ways & they last for generations. My imagination absolutely explodes with ideas when gazing upon them & while creating art with them. I am forever a hopelessly addicted collector & creator when it comes to art stamps. How about you?